Re: _baseball_, Dave Hassler wrote to Ed Grinnell on 13 Oct 97:
 DH> 
 >> EG:  BLJ> Would they shorten the season to something like 144 games
 >> EG: per season?
 >> EG: 
 >> EG: More like 154-156.
 DH> 
 DH> Do you think they'd whack off as many as 8 games?  I was thinking 160
 DH> might be more like it.  Didn't it *used* (in the "good ol' daze")
 DH> 154?
The number of games aren't selected arbitrarily.  They have to fit the 
context of a schedule.  They want an even number of games againt teams in 
their own division as well as in the other divisions.  So they're likely to 
with whatever number fits best in their scheduling. 
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