In an effort to make baseball an event, something special, a league on par with the NFL in buzzworthyness and gambling possibilities, less of a slog, I’ve completely destroyed most baseball traditions to present to you:

THE 104 GAME BASEBALL SEASON

In order to create the proper 104 game season, we have to do a little realignment

Contract the Kansas City Royals
Combine the Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Move the Florida Franchise to the AL
Move the Brewers back to the AL
Create two divisions in each league of 7 teams each
Hockey style scoring to determine standings
Division winners, and two wild card teams make the playoffs with the highest number of points in their respective leauge
26 weeks of baseball, with weeks solidly defined, much like in the NFL

The first 12 weekends of the season consist of 4 game intra-league series, played on Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun with 1 NL and one AL series being Fri-Sat-Sun-Mon.

The two Monday games, will consist of an evening and a night game, with scheduling designed around making the wrap-around Monday series the two best of the weekend

Hockey Style Scoring.

Lose the series = 0 points
Win the series = 2 points
Sweep the series = 4 points
Split = 1 per team

The following 4 weekends of the season would allow for interleague play, 3 game series, Fri-Sat-Sun with two series Fri-Sun-Mon or Fri-Sat-Mon

Lose = 0
Win = 2
Sweep = 3

The following six weeks follow the same pattern as the first 12 weeks of the season

The final four weeks are five game series Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun-Tue (to avoid MNF) All Sunday games would be afternoon games.

Lose = 0
Win 3 = 2
Win 4 = 3
Sweep = 6

The Interleauge series will consist of two home series and two road series, based random draw before the season, with one of each team’s 4 series devoted to a regional matchup.

The four 5 game series at the end of the season are always divisional matchups games. Two home, two road, based on points standings heading into the final month. The top 5 teams in each division play each other one time each, the bottom two teams in the division will play each other twice, and the bottom two teams in the opposite division in the same league one series each.

The remaining 18 series will consist of home at home within the respective division, and one series against six of the seven intra-league teams.  

The all star game is abolished since it no longer matters, however, during the interleague stretch, players will convene on the four Tuesdays at neutral sites for the BALCO home run derby, the Adidas running bases tournament, the Rollings 500 tournament, and the Tom Emanski throw-a-ball-from-centerfield-into-a-garbage-can-tipped-over-at-home tournament. Each of the 28 teams will submit a player to each of the four tournaments, the players will compete on both an overall scale, and against their division, The four division winners will take home 3 points for their teams, the 2^nd place 2, and the 3^rd and 4^th place 1 point each, the overall top highest scorer in each league will earn their team an extra 1 point.