Selig did the right thing. You can’t let a post-season series be decided by a rain out. The problem is the start times and the ridiculously late start of the post-season. Apparently Fox wanted the series to start mid-week which leads to even later calendar day starts. Add in the ridiculous staggering of the Division series and the non-travel off days in the Championship series and you get something that is not baseball. Baseball is about playing every day and pitching depth. The new schedules virtually eliminate the advantage that teams with deep pitching enjoy in the regular season.

In the division series, the only off day should be between games 3 and 4. There should be no off day between games 1 and 2 (as there was this year for the Red Sox Angels series) and no off day between games 4 and 5. If you can’t get it done in 4 games, you don’t get the extra days rest for your starters for game 5. Had that series gone 5 games both teams would have only needed 3 starters because there would have been THREE off days for a 5 game series. Ridiculous.

In the Championship series and World Series, the only off days should be the two travel days. That way a team is required to have at least 4 starters for each series. Otherwise, you have the potential for a team to use only three starters, using the game 1 starter on 3 days rest for game 4, and the rest on normal rest. Starter 1, Starter 2, off day, Starter 3, Starter 1 (3 days rest), off day, Starter 2, off day, Starter 3, Starter 1. You couldn’t do that with only 2 off days unless you pitched more than one starter on short rest.