The Crawfish Boxes · Jan 4, 2024
Off-Season Hot Take: MLB (Astros and all others) makes some scheduling changes
Photo by Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty ImagesAt this point, we are deep into the baseball off-season. Spring Training is still months away. There are still a number of free agents to sign, trades to make, but all in all, baseball is entering the deadest time of the calendar. Yet, sometimes there are those random comments or actions that get headlines, but because the baseball scribes have nothing else to write about. Thus it was during the off-season when agent Scott Boras offered his suggestion for playing a 7-game World Series at a neutral site, with the idea that it generates revenue and attention ala the NFL Super Bowl. Most laughed that idea off as inane.