MVN: Most Valuable Network

I'm working on a project, and in my research it dawned on me the Mud Hens play a full month less baseball than the Tigers. Obviously, that's not news but for some reason it had never struck me before that they play only eighteen less games in one less month. That means the Triple A teams are working on a schedule that could easily knock a week and a half off if applied to the majors.

I know the Triple A teams don't have to do cross-continent flights and an average of 28 or 29 games a month is pretty brutal. However, if baseball wants to keep a 162-game schedule and the current playoff format and improve the conditions in which the postseason is played, something is obviously going to need to change. I know some people want neutral site World Series, but would we really prefer no more World Series games in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Boston or New York? That seems absurd to me, and trimming down the schedule (I means days, not games) seems like the reasonable alternative.