We don't need to shrink the regular season

Just because there's a little weather this year, one Atlanta Journal Constitution writer thinks it is time to re-examine Bud Selig's wishes to shorten the regular season.

ll baseball had to do was listen to Selig and do something such as go from 162 games to 154 in the regular season. Then the division series would begin no later than the last week of September instead of early October. Then you wouldn’t have what you have now: A World Series featuring television ratings dropping as fast as the temperature in Philadelphia.

With game-time temperatures slated for the low 40s (with the wind-chill factor in the upper 20s) tonight, the Phillies are scheduled to hit in the bottom of the sixth inning during their suspended Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays.

No, that's not necessary. If baseball starts on April 1st, and gets the regular season in by the end of September, shrinks the off days in the postseason to one day between series and has weekend world series day games, well, then life is good in baseball again.