I maintain that the current playoff structure is a disaster. The Division Series should be 7 games, not 5. It leaves open the biggest gap for the worst team among the final 8 to advance to the final 4 with the least guarantee of being the better team. I remember the end of 2006 thinking, wow, we really blew away the league the whole year but we still haev two lesser teams taking potshots at us trying to get lucky and St. Louis did.

What REALLY needs to happen though is getting rid of the Division Series and returning to the NL East/NL West and AL East/AL West series the way it was since 1969. You had 4 teams each of which was the top team of at least 6 in its division, no chance of winning a division with a sub-.500 record (it's inevitable). As it is now, you hardly ever have the best 2 teams squaring off in the Series, hence the lowest ratings ever these days. Does anybody seriously claim the Phillies were the best team in their league all year? The Rays? Thank you. So what does a Series between them prove? Zilch, it's a glorified interleague series. Both the Phillies and Rays barely won their respective divisions anyway. If you need to add 2 teams to balance out the schedule, do it. Contract 2? Do it. Always have an interleague series going on all throughout the regular season so the teams match up? Do it. The whole setup is broken now as is.