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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Why Does the MLB season start so late this year?

Most teams start April 6th. Usually it is in very late March or the first couple days of April. It is not because of WBC, because in 2006 when they had the WBC the season started April 3rd 2006. Not a big deal just wondering.



ESPN wants a Sunday night opener, which this year has to be either March 29 or April 5. And March 29 is kinda too early, particularly since there's still college basketball to exploit.




It is because of the WBC. Even the commish Bud Selig said so in the semi-final game when the U.S. played Japan. He stated that they made adjustments to the WBC schedule to try to get more of the top players in the tourney. Spring training is also two weeks longer to give players a chance to come back and get work with their MLB teams. They are also talking about changes they're going to make to the WBC in 2013 too. Like less days off so the players on the WBC roster can treat it like a spring training/ regular season schedule because usually there are not many days off. Remember the WBC is new so they are going to make changes after each tourney to try and make it beneficial for the top players for each country to go. The US would dominate this tourney if they had all their studs; especially the pitchers.




Commercialism. The Sunday night game that kicks off the season had to either be April 5th or they would have had to start in March. So, they picked April 5th, then let everyone else start that Monday.




Like Chipmaker said, ESPN wants to have a season opening game on Sunday, and March 29th is a little bit too early. So they decided to have it on April 6th. I like the idea of the starting game on ESPN too.




WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? APRIL IS USUALLY THE START




It is because of the WBC. It give the player from WBC a little time back with their teams before the season starts.




They claim it is because of the WBC. They learned from 2006 that they needed another week to get the WBC players back and accustomed to their own team.




yes it is because of the world baseball classic atleast thats what all of the analysts say the reason is




The fist game os the Season Is ALWAYS on the First Sunday In April... i has been for a LONG while now




They were hoping the Pirates would get better and gave them a few extra days.





From a Pirate Fan!




Espn wanted the season to start in April 6

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