Shorten the Season

Shorten the Major League Baseball season. I'm pretty sure the only reason we continue to play a 162 game season was the home run chases it has produced. But the single-season record for home runs is 73, produced by a 35 year old man named Barry Lamar. There will never be another Bonds because the steroid era is over.

Shorten the season to 130 or 140 games, relieve some stress on the young pitcher's arms who are the ones driving all the revenue. There would be problems with salaries and what not, but that's something that could be figured out. David Price, Tim Lincecum, Kevin Slowey, Mat Latos, Matt Cain, Francisco Liriano, Jaime Garcia, Neftali Feliz, Phil Hughes, I mean the list goes on and on but there are a ton of young pitchers in the hunt for a pennant right now and are pushing themselves to extents they've never been pushed to in a situation where it could be win or go home for four months.

Now, I say you can either shorten the season and bring the playoffs back so we're hoisting the World Series trophy in mid-September or you just space out the games and give these players A) some rest B) occasional holidays to go see their families.

I know this blog post won't be read by many but 162 game seasons are unnecessary. Injuries are frequent enough and these triple-digit arms are fragile, give the kids a rest and let Sundays in September be about football.