ARE WE TALKIN' PLAYOFFS?

I've been playing around with a Major League playoff schedule (I know - it's Opening Day - the timing of this is horribly out of place.  But Buster Olney chimed in a few days ago with a ridiculous proposal for no divisions and six teams in the playoffs from each league.  I just thought I'd take a crack myself.)

My proposal would basically keep the current format with three division winners and a wild card, but expand the opening series to best-of-seven, and severely compact the schedule:

Sunday, October 3 - Last day of regular season.

Tuesday, October 5th - Start of division series for one league.
Wednseday, October 6th - Start of division series for the other league.

The All-Star Game would determine which team start the playoffs first - on Tuesday (meaning they'd get an extra off day before the World Series) - rather than deciding home field in the World Series.  Home field would go to the team with the best record.  Yeah, I know - they play different schedules - tough.

Anyway, each of the four division series would take place on consecutive days, no matter now long the series go.  Seven straight days - no travel days.  Why not?  They do it all season like that, they can do it in the playoffs.  These series would also be scheduled 2-2-3 to reduce travel and enhance home field advantage.

The series that starts on October 5th would end by October 11th.  That league would start their League Championship Series on Wednesday, October 13th.  The other league would lag by one day, starting their LCS on Thusday, October 14th.

The two League Championship Series would each have a single day off after Game 4.  These days would fall on Sunday, October 17th and Monday, October 18th (so as not to compete with football.)  One league would conclude no later than October 20th and the other league would be a day later.

The World Series would then start on Saturday, October 23rd.  There would be off days on Monday the 25th and Friday the 29th, with Game 7 falling on Sunday October 31st.  No November baseball.

Here's how it looks laid out in a grid assuming the AL starts:

Sun	3-Oct	End Reg	Season
Mon	4-Oct
Tue	5-Oct	ALDS
Wed	6-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Thu	7-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Fri	8-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Sat	9-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Sun	10-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Mon	11-Oct	ALDS	NLDS
Tue	12-Oct		NLDS
Wed	13-Oct	ALCS
Thu	14-Oct	ALCS	NLCS
Fri	15-Oct	ALCS	NLCS
Sat	16-Oct	ALCS	NLCS
Sun	17-Oct		NLCS
Mon	18-Oct	ALCS
Tue	19-Oct	ALCS	NLCS
Wed	20-Oct	ALCS	NLCS
Thu	21-Oct		NLCS
Fri	22-Oct
Sat	23-Oct	WS
Sun	24-Oct	WS
Mon	25-Oct
Tue	26-Oct	WS
Wed	27-Oct	WS
Thu	28-Oct	WS
Fri	29-Oct
Sat	30-Oct	WS
Sun	31-Oct	WS

Under this schedule, most likely no starting pitcher would pitch more than twice in a series.

If you had rain outs, you would obviously push everything back a day, but then eliminate the next scheduled off day to make up the time.

It could be done.