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Originally Posted by pilight
They play a balanced schedule and they have relegation to keep the games meaningful for the out of contention squads.
The first is do-able albeit more complicated in a much larger country like the US. All of England is about the size of Iowa. Even a "long" trip, say Berwick to Penzance, is much less of a burden than going coat-to-coast. New York to Los Angeles is like going from London to Baghdad (NY to LA is actually slightly longer).
Promotion/relegation will never be approved by MLB owners.
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Technically, the closest comps for England in total square mileage are Alabama and Louisiana. (Mississippi is a skoche larger.) Of course, the difference from endpoint to endpoint may differ, as that data is a bit more work than just checking a list of States by Area.
(This came up in a non-sports context, so I haven't checked other examples. I recall reading that France is roughly the size of Missouri, but that's only a rumor.)