Boston Bruins

[4aprice]

season is too long for who? players or viewers? i love the playoff tournament. i'm not a baseball guy so after june i got nothing to watch until football season. come october i can't wait for hockey to begin!

I really understand your feelings. I too am luke warm to baseball (watch a little) so there is down time till football and I do look forward to the hockey season. But there seems to be a lot of meaningless games at times.

I've always wanted to see a schedule that would feature series play. Example instead of have each divisional rivel play 6 times spread throughout the season, have them play them as a series home and away back to back. With the other divisions in each conference a 4 games series. Cut out most games with the other conference. Start the playoffs in mid March.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[WJenness]

I love playoff hockey and I don't think the regular season is too long.

I love baseball, and I think the baseball regular season is too long, and too FEW teams make the playoffs.

I hate it that many times >50% are totally eliminated from the playoff picture by the all-star break... Encourages too much dumping of talent towards the select few in contention at the end of the year.

I'm lucky to root for a baseball team that is (now) perennially competitive, but how much does it suck to be a Royals or a Pirates fan? At least bad teams in hockey / basketball still have something to work for in the tail end of the season... They're still trying to win games and it gives the fans a reason to be interested.

Do people really care if there baseball team comes in 5th, 4th or 3rd in their division? It doesn't really matter at that point.

I'd rather see the AL and NL each have 8 teams make the playoffs and have 7 game series all the way through with a regular season of 148 (or so) games.

-w

 

[JimG.]

season is too long for who? players or viewers? i love the playoff tournament. i'm not a baseball guy so after june i got nothing to watch until football season. come october i can't wait for hockey to begin!

Fair enough.

I was commenting from the viewer's aspect...for me, the season is too long. I have trouble watching the games before the turn of the year because they seem to count for very little. Home ice doesn't seem to matter too much. Most of the teams make the playoffs. So it just seems too long. And the season ending around summer seems weird. For me anyway.

Same problem with the NBA.

I admit I have the same issue with baseball, but because it is a sport based on stats it seems more appropriate. But I can't get too amped for baseball until about August.

But that's me. The NFL does it best...season just the right length and games once a week for each team always leaves me wanting more.