By now, the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays is partway finished and despite all of the interesting storylines and excitement of the sports event so revered that it’s known as the “Fall Classic”, I didn’t watch very much of it. Not because I dislike America’s Pastime or the MLB, but because the MLB Playoffs happen at the same time as the college football and National Football League season and the season as a whole has way, way, way too many games.

Since 1961, the MLB regular season has consisted of 162 games. Opening Day this year was on March 27th and the regular season ended on Sept. 28th, leaving October for the playoffs, causing it to overlap with the NFL season, which kicked off on Sept. 4.

I understand that the MLB season ending in mid-fall is a longtime tradition, and that on the business side of sports more games=more tickets sales=more money, but 162 regular games+even more playoff games, across seven months of the year, seems a little long.

Shortening the MLB regular season would make each game matter more and allow the World Series to not worry about competing for eyes with the NFL, the most viewed sports league in the United States.

One drawback for diehard MLB fans about shortening the regular season is that there would be less opportunities for league records to be broken, a huge part of baseball.

Baseball should be in the spring and summer, leaving the fall and winter for football. 162+ games can get really tiring.