Getting enough high school baseball, especially of the championship variety? Well, the state of Florida is giving players and coaches there much more, by expanding the baseball playoff format.

The Florida High School Athletic Association, that state's equivalent of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, has opened the regional final format from a single game to a best-of-three miniseries, with the winners advancing to the state semifinals. So far, the new format has proven to be a winner, with nine of the 24 series going to a third game and six of them won by the team that lost the first game of the series.

Of course, the natural question here is to wonder whether such an animal could survive here. The obvious answer is no, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that high school baseball here is nowhere near as popular as it is in Florida, so there's isn't that level of demand. Plus, the weather, as we've seen in the last two weeks, is unpredictable enough in Maryland to make it difficult to get three straight days where play is possible, and if there are enough rainouts, the traditional Memorial Day weekend finale would go out the window.

Still, the regions in Maryland are contiguous enough to make the idea intriguing, if not, entirely workable.