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I guess the division series had an affect?

Pretty neat visual here, shows the how the expansion of baseball (first geographically, then the expansion of the leagues, then the expansion of the playoffs) affected the length of the season.

The travel times back in the day were pretty insane though (there were not team charters that flew them out one hour after games time), so it is interesting to see that the length of the series in days, including off days was not that horrible.

I guess the real culprit here is TV.  The expansion of the playoffs is one thing (and now we are going to have another round.. if the rumors are true), but EVERY game is on at this point, so they have to spread them out to avoid as much overlap as possible.  Good news this year though, barring weather, its over before Halloween.