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Rob Manfred admits the real reason MLB owners want the season over by November

Remember Bud Selig and hotel rooms?

To refresh your memory, that’s the reason we had “This Time It Counts,” World Series home field decided by the result of the All-Star Gam from 2003-16. Bud was worried about hotel rooms. No, really:

We can’t wait until September 30th or October 1st to determine where the World Series is going to be played. You have thousands of hotel rooms to book and a lot of other things and right now we take a chance. But at least you know it’s going to be in a league and our people can work on that.