Top 11 reasons why MLB needs to expand its playoff schedule

This week, Mistake For Life Bud Selig put forth the proposition that MLB needs to allow more teams to the playoff party, seeing how there has been no real drama to September this year, and how the sport allows the smallest percentage of teams to make the post-season of any of the majors. But as always, we dig deeper to give you the real reasons.

11) For once, they want to do the dumb thing before the NFL does

10) The sport needs more meaningful games in more cities to create the potential of more stirring big fall crowds, like we've seen for contenders in Tampa and Atlanta

9) If more teams make the post-season, that helps to deflect notice of how the teams with ridiculous payroll advantages are always there

8) A best of five first-round series is much more exciting than a month of do-or-die and scoreboard watching that we used to have before the wild card

7) The current schedule of games, where some small market or Western team gets shafted by having multiple day games, isn't ungainly enough

6) With the entire sport tied down to pitch counts and innings limits, adding more workload is a clear win

5) We haven't had a barely .500 team make the post-season in far too long

4) Extra weeks tacked on to the end of the year can't possibly blow up in the sport's face by having games played in ridiculously cold weather

3) MLB just does so well in head-to-head ratings matchups against pro and college football

2) When you add in extra weeks at the end of the year to the World Baseball Championship at the start of the year, we get the game nearly year-round, and that's worked so well for golf and tennis

1) By expanding the schedule, we ensure that the conditions are perfect to finally end the scourge of performance enhancing drug abuse