“We’re going to change it,” Selig told reporters in Chicago today. “I don’t disagree with Mike Scioscia. I think he was right, so we’re going to try and tighten that up. When you plan the playoff schedule, you don’t know how many games the first round would go. So it’s difficult. There were clubs that sat around. Some were necessary, but some were not.”
I think the best way to handle this is have the dates of the LCS and World Series be flexible. Either way, this is something that should be fixed, even though it did enable the Yankees to go with a three-man rotation, which is probably why they won.
