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After taking a lot of flak for scheduling the World Series into November both in 2009 and 2010, Major League Baseball is attempting to take some steps to ensure the season ends earlier. USA Today is reporting that the 2011 season will open on Friday, April 1, which will allow it to end on Wednesday, Sept. 30, which will allow the World Series to start on Oct. 19. Given the nine days needed for a seven-game series, that would ensure no baseball after Halloween. For comparison's sake, last year's season began Sunday, April 5 thanks to the World Baseball Classic and the World Series didn't even begin until Oct. 28. This year's season began on the same calendar point (Sunday, April 4) and the Series will again drag until some point in November. Prior to the 2009 season, the only World Series played in November was in 2001.
It's weird to think of a season beginning on a Friday and not a Monday (it hasn't happened since 1905, according to the USA Today story linked above), but this seems like a good first step trying to keep the most important baseball games of the year from being played in conditions untenable for baseball.
Last year's Series didn't suffer too much from its November games (the starting temperature was no lower than 47 degrees for any game last year), but the 2008 series was marred by terrible late-October Philadelphia weather. The earlier the season ends, the less likely this is to be a problem.
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