 First thing today, September 14th, we started the playoffs today. We've got three teams at 500 or less. I think we got the Phillies at one game above, just one game above 500. So is the expanded playoffs actually good for baseball? Expanded playoffs, it's exciting for this season. It really, and you know, Manfred basically came out and said we're going to have it because all the owners want it. And we know the owners want it. It, you know, 162 game season means something. If you have over 50% of the teams getting in, 162 game season means nothing. Like, if teams are punting games in the 60 game season and, you know, putting guys on the IL when they don't 100% need to be on the IL for a 60 game season, I mean, 160 game season, you just may have straight like punt months. Like, yeah, we'll steal outs here, steal outs there, steal wins here, bad lineup Fridays, backup Mondays. You know, who knows? Because it doesn't matter at all if you, if the only. So, you know, the tournament style playoffs I think is good this year, but I don't, I don't think it's good for baseball unless they lower the amount of regular season games to like 100. Because I still think 60 is even too short for this expanded playoffs. We're kind of like feeling that right now with how many bad teams there are. Also the, the unbalanced schedules, but maybe if they drop it to 100, which they won't. Then it would make sense, but I don't know. What do you think? Drop the season to 100 games? Yeah, they're not gonna do that because it's money, but. They'll never do that. But that's the only way it would make sense to have 16 teams in the playoffs. There is no chance they can keep this. I don't care what Rob Manfred says. If I will, I will go to New York to the MLB's office and yell at Rob Manfred face to face if he decides to do that. I promise you I will, because I think it's so stupid. Foolish baseball and I had an exchange about this last night on my Twitter. Bailey? He was basically saying 60 game seasons fine for the expanded playoffs. It, it said, but given 162 games to find true talent level, it's irresponsible to give sub 500 teams a shot, a short series to knock out a powerhouse. And I totally agree with them. I said, tell them except for the 12 teams. He said 12 teams, maybe if there was first round buys. I don't like 12 teams. And I told him, I barely like 10 teams because when you play 162 games and you have two teams battling out with one game, it makes a mockery of the season. Now the other four teams, obviously they, they get to, you know, enjoy not having to play in that game. But it's, it's too much already. I get the fans like the wild, I even as a fan liked the wild card game. But as a player, you can't like that. You can't like that at all. You battle all year, you win 96 games and then you have to go play one freaking game. So to think that we'd have 16 teams over 162 games would be honestly, that is the death of baseball. That would be the death of baseball. The same way that basketball sucks during the regular season because everybody makes a playoffs. The same thing would happen to baseball. No one would give a shit. So then all these games. That's why I'm saying, yeah. Yes. So I'm saying they'd have to shorten the regular season by a lot. Otherwise. And they won't do that. Otherwise, why would you tune in to April and May baseball? Honestly, if over 50% of the league makes it, like if you're not a die hard fan, why would you tune in? That's when you, that's when you turn up the blackout restrictions because people aren't going to the game. So that's how you really grow it. Yeah. No, 16 is too many. 16 is too many. And that's, it gets scary when Manfred comes out with that quote. And again, this all turns into stuff that's going to be on the negotiating table. I mean, like Jimmy saying that, if the owners come to the table and say they want this as the new format, the players probably come back and say, all right, 81 games. And that's how you start another angry conversation between these two groups. I do think there will be a way to scratch everyone's back, but baseball, the players and the owners are so terrible at that. I don't see it happening because I would like to see maybe the one and two teams in each league get rewarded with a buy of sorts. I don't know what that looks like. I'm not great with playoff formats, but if there is a way that you can reward those teams for excellency in the regular season, that is a grind, 162, it's brutal. It's absolutely brutal that, you know, I don't know if it's two play and wild card games or I don't know if the one and two get excluded from three game series. I don't know. I think there is a way to do it and you can reward, you should be rewarding the elite teams. So I don't know. I just don't think a buy is a reward. You know, you see it time and time again, man. It's like get hot, close to playoffs and continue to roll. And those teams that have a four day layoff, five day layoff, man, it just hurts their chances. Like eight teams is cool, man. Eight teams is cool. I get that you're gonna exclude like some really good teams at that point. So like I'm okay with 10. And the problem that you have with 10 and not having a wild card, one game wild card game is the layoff. Cause if you wanted to do a three game set with those two wild card teams, which I think is the fairest thing to do, you're gonna have teams waiting around. So I mean, there are some hurdles here, but adding teams to making it 16 for a regular 162 game season would be the death of baseball. Jim, what's the home and home wild card thing from one of the leagues overseas? Top seed has to win one game, lower seed has to win two. And it's both games are at the higher seeds place. All three games would be at the higher seed place, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I think there's something, but it's not this for a regular season. That would be cool. I don't, I mean, people act like that's crazy. It's really not that crazy. If you're the, like right now, the one in the eight seed, they should have done that this year. The one seed should just have to win one game. If the Rays play the eight seed, who's the eight seed right now? White Sox are the one, Cleveland's the eight. Okay, so then White Sox have to win one game. If they win the first game, White Sox advance. They're the one seed. They should be given a benefit for being the one seed. If the White, if the White Sox lose the first game, well now the next game, now that's do or die. I, my counter to all of this is like baseball is meant to be played in a real series. Well, you know, like, even the three game series, like we've been talking about that for a long time, like a team could sneak up, man. It's not a real series. So, so many people, they gotta figure something out. So many people that I went to and heard their opinions on the playoffs and how there's no off days in the ALCS, we're all excited. Yeah. Because they said, this is a real test of a roster. Yeah. And it usually, and the playoffs usually isn't. The playoffs is usually just a test of your top tier roster. And this is an actual test, which is a good point. Like there's very, there's a lot to it. It is different than any other year, but so is this year. So I found that like an interesting thing because that was not our takeaway, our instant reaction. And then it was some other people's and, you know, it's all different.