The Business of Baseball

Major League Baseball is a capitalistic, for-profit enterprise. One of the biggest misconceptions about Major League Baseball seems to be that teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies and Dodgers "buy their players" in an effort to win world championships.

Major League Baseball and Their Stupid 5 Game Series

Major league baseball needs to seriously reevaluate their ridiculous best-of-5 playoff format in the Division Series. To lower variance and truly give determine the better team, the Division Series should be a best-of-7 series, like every other playoff series on the planet.