Boras Proposes New World Series Format, Oscar-Style Awards

Boras Suggests Ways MLB Can Improve World Series

MLB player agent Scott Boras has proposed that the World Series, currently a best-of-seven format, be best-of-nine games instead, and “feature the first two on a weekend at a neutral site to create an atmosphere similar” to the Super Bowl, according to Dan Bollerman of BLOOMBERG NEWS. Boras added that MLB also could “hand out annual awards then in an Oscar-style show, rather than releasing them to the news media on weekday afternoons following the season.” Boras: “We have to have the stars of our game noticed. To deliver the awards through a wire service, I’ve never understood that.” He added that he has sent a letter to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig about his idea. MLB VP/PR Pat Courtney said that Selig “received the letter and declined to comment further” (BLOOMBERG NEWS, 5/11).

DENIED: In N.Y., Tyler Kepner notes ten Yankees players yesterday used pink bats as part of MLB’s breast cancer awareness initiative on Mother’s Day, but the league was “not so receptive to [P] Mike Myers, informing him through the Yankees’ front office that he would not be allowed to use the pink glove he had specially made for the day.” Myers was told that pitchers “could not wear a glove with a color that might distract the hitter” (N.Y. TIMES, 5/14). While most Mets players wore pink wristbands, pitchers “couldn’t because they could have been a distraction to batters” (Anthony Rieber, NEWSDAY, 5/14).