One of my many baseball fantasies would be to blow up everything in baseball and do a split season format. The first half would be a lot of round robin play that would seed all teams into an eventual two-game elimination tourney. Then there would be an All-Star Break. And the second half would be a mini-season of 81 games in a dash to a single AL and NL winner, to go directly to the World Series.
Screw the need to grant everybody all those home games. Screw the need to sell bad beer via Fox Sports and TBS on all those extra playoff series', since those happen in June/July anyway.