Well, seeing as none of the ALDS or NLDS series were competitive as it was, I don't see how adding more teams to the playoffs helps. The season is 162 games already, the wheat is pretty well seperated from the chaff by the time October comes around.

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No, it would go on forever. We already have (cold night) games in the end of October. Enough is enough!

Bud Selig thinks that the games are more competitive with the current format. Normally, teams that win 90+ games make the playoffs, while the teams that don't win close to 90 games, don't.

I d like to see more games in the playoffs. Currently, the ALCS is boring, and so was NLCS. Big sports town teams such as the My Yankees and the Angels are out. Watching teams from small sports markets is not as much fun.
It would just make the baseball season and post season long. Some people might get bored regardless of what teams are playing, and the ratings still might drop.
Less competitive means less attractive. and 16 teams mean low intensity

no that would mean more games


they already play 162 games, im sure they wouldn't want to play more

Baseball needs to rid itself of the evils created by the playoff system by the eliminating the playoff system altogether .
The beauty of baseball used to be that there never any chump champions. Teams played 154 games and then later on 162 games .The team that won the most games in the American Leagues got to play against the team that won the most games in the National League and the winner was a bona-fide champion.
I guess that was too simple and the pencil -necked marketing geeks just had to ruin it in the name of "progress "

no....i think the 1 wild card format is perfect, or close to it

8 why stop there, just have everyone make the playoffs, even have a few minor league teams join in to make it interesting.

Of course not, and as a baseball purist I'd get rid of all the playoff's and just go back to the winner of each league plays in world series, the regular season is your playoff, like it was years ago. Don't get me wrong they are exiting, but it dimishes what the players years ago did by having so many post season games.

NO because they would be playing baseball til late November and early December...and it gets way to cold in the northern cities

They need to go to 4 divisions with 4 winners.

I thought the questions with 6 teams were crazy, but 8 takes the cake!

No!!!!!

No way! How long do you want the season to go?

No, 8 per league is too many. Assuming you mean 3 division winners and 5 wild cards, the extra playoff teams this year would have been:

AL
Detroit 88 wins
Seattle 88
Toronto 83
Minnesota 79

NL
San Diego 89 wins
New York 88
Atlanta 84
Milwaukee 83

There would have been 4 playoff teams with fewer than 85 wins, and one team with fewer wins than losses.

as much as I love baseball then it will be as about as long as the NHL or NBA post seasons.

No way baseball is boring enough