Phil Rogers- McClatchy Newspapers(MCT) It's a loser's lament. This time every year, there's always a cry for Major League Baseball to extend its first-round playoff series from a best-of-five format to best-of-seven. This most often has been voiced by John Schuerholz, Bobby Cox, Joe Torre and others with the Atlanta Braves who thought baseball's version of semi-sudden death was "totally unfair." "I've always felt that you go 162 games; the first round is important [enough] to have best-of-seven," said Torre, the Dodgers manager who watched his last three Yankees teams expire in the first round. "It's really a tough situation to adjust to. The best teams get in after 162. And then to send them out for that crapshoot ... it's lucky a lot of times if you win." Yet when a change to best-of-seven was offered to a member of the...
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