A 50-game baseball season would a total farce. It would also be a lot of fun.
So, yes, a 50-game season would be a total farce.This would be the wildest pennant race of all time. Instead of the typical marathon, it would be a demolition derby charge where literally any team could make it or miss it. This is essentially like having every team in the majors tied in the standings in early August.
If this was the normal 2020 season, teams such as Detroit , Baltimore , Miami or Kansas City would enter low on hope. Not this time. Any team can hold it together for 50 games. Right? At least they’d think they could. Just about every game would matter, certainly at the start, and perhaps all the way through. With so few games, even an opening day result would need to be fought over. Any hot streak would be important. Any slump would be devastating. Injuries would be crushing. A rookie on a roll would be powerful. One of those classic, late-inning, only-in-baseball, ‘how’d-we pull-that-one-out?’ victories might flip a season.
This would be like baseball playing football — every game matters. And while, in normal times, baseball shouldn’t try to emulate a different sport, these aren’t normal times. A global shutdown created this. When life gives you the coronavirus, give them the Daytona 500 on manicured grass. A 50-game season is about as close to everyone making the playoffs as is possible. The end of the season might require so many play-in games and tie-breakers you’d need an abacus to keep track. Hey, that’d be part of the fun.
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