re: Post your Unpopular Sports Opinions

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try to enjoy it, but the MLB season is too damn long and each game clocks in at 3-4 hours. This makes the individual games seem utterly meaningless to me. What is the damn point of having so many regular season games? The NBA and NHL could shorten their regular seasons a bit as well.

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Agreed.

I'm not a baseball hater, though it has fallen deeply out of favor with me over the last two decades, but the season is unbelievably long. Whenever you have 100+ games in a team sport, it immediately devalues the import of your day-to-day product. The NBA could stand to lose a few empty calories games as well.

It'll never happen, but the MLB regular season should start in May and end in August. Having a regular season from April to October is absurd.

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I hate the way drafts works. The worst teams should not be rewarded with the top picks. Nothing else in life functions that way. I'd just assume have a free agency without the draft. Players and teams should be able to mutually agree on contracts without a draft. Strict roster limitations should prevent big teams from gobbling up too many players.

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The guys on the Deadspin podcast had a pretty good idea about this a few weeks ago. They proposed a sort of auction-based bidding process to replace professional sports drafts, sort of like what you see in fantasy drafts.

I've never quite understood why leagues and teams mandate where players must start their professional careers. It's ironic that players can freely choose where they play their college ball but they can't make any money during that time, and when they can finally make money by being a professional they can't choose where they play for the first few years of their career.