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...nothing is a greater threat to baseball as we know it than the newly proposed playoff system. The owners like it--which should already tip us off to trouble ahead. If baseball is Americana, this new system is like the former Soviet Union. It's backward, and it's likely to cause more harm than good...
...only is the system changing for the worse, but American fans will not be able to watch most of the playoff games under the new system. The majority of the playoff games will not be broadcast on the major networks as in the past. Instead, they'll be aired on cable--or even worse, on pay-per-view...
...there will be more playoff games to televise, and playoffs tend to gain higher viewership than regular season games. But tampering with baseball and its traditions may decrease its popularity and, ultimately, decrease viewer interest...
...captain of the Boston Celtics, suddenly dropped to the floor while shooting baskets at a gymnasium at Brandeis University in suburban Waltham, Massachusetts; he was pronounced dead at a hospital 2 1/2hours later. His collapse had been foreshadowed three months earlier, when he passed out during an April 29 playoff game against the Charlotte Hornets. Lewis checked in to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital. A "dream team" of 12 cardiologists assembled by the Celtics' physician, Arnold Scheller, made a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, an abnormal stretching or thickening of the heart that can cause it to beat erratically. The condition...
Selig is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with baseball. He's a hypocrite of the first order, extolling the virtues of baseball's tradition while negotiating a plan to undo its sacred playoff system...