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Old 08-09-2014, 04:08 PM   #61
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Agree with Questdog about getting rid of WCs.

Worst things to ever happen to Major League Baseball...

1. Instant Replay
2. The addition of wild cards.
3. The addition of more wild cards.

If you can't win your division, why the hell should you be able to win the World Series?
Instant Replay is an oxymoron. There's nothing instant about it!
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Old 08-09-2014, 05:02 PM   #62
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I rather not befoul the AL East with the Natinals thanks.
If it was Montreal then bring it on.
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Old 08-09-2014, 05:07 PM   #63
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How somebody can call four 5-team and two 4-team divisions "balanced" is beyond me. Frankly, you have no argument here.

They may have hit the sweet spot with the current setup. Expanding to 32 would only leed to either unbalanced divisions or 4-team divisions, both of which I despise.
I'd like to eliminate inter-league play, so we need even teams in each league. If 4-team divisions are the price to pay I'd take it.
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Old 08-10-2014, 04:15 PM   #64
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In response to the OP if the league were to contract I think they would probably remove Houston and Miami over Oakland and Tampa Bay.

Also both Boston and New York(A) owners have both said in the past (early 2000s when contraction was talked about) they wouldn't agree to any realignment that kept them in the same league/division together. So any realignment has to have one of them moving to the National League. Which in turn would probably also bring the DH. Not to mention that if the Yankees moved to the National League then the MLB would want/have to move the Mets to the American League.
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In response to the OP if the league were to contract I think they would probably remove Houston and Miami over Oakland and Tampa Bay.

Also both Boston and New York(A) owners have both said in the past (early 2000s when contraction was talked about) they wouldn't agree to any realignment that kept them in the same league/division together. So any realignment has to have one of them moving to the National League. Which in turn would probably also bring the DH. Not to mention that if the Yankees moved to the National League then the MLB would want/have to move the Mets to the American League.
Do you have any published reports that reference the second paragraph? I find it hard to believe that could ever happen.
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Old 08-10-2014, 04:34 PM   #66
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Do you have any published reports that reference the second paragraph? I find it hard to believe that could ever happen.
I couldn't find anything online but I remember back then at least one of the owners saying it something to the effect of "it would only be good for baseball to split us up" and something to the effect of how much money MLB would make if they had a Boston-New York World Series.

I did a report on expanding or contracting the MLB in a college class back in 2003 and I remember quoting several media sources including ESPN but as I said I can't find any of that information or any online links anymore.

The part about the Mets having to move of the Yankees moved is because in the league bylaws you can't have two teams in the same league that close together. MLB would probably say the Mets were grandfathered to get around that though.
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Do you have any published reports that reference the second paragraph? I find it hard to believe that could ever happen.
Yeah I'm going to cal B.S. on that one too lol
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Old 08-10-2014, 05:49 PM   #68
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I think ra7c7er is thinking of the 'radical' realignment plan that Selig (and some owners) were in favour of in the run-up to the 1998 expansion. That would have seen quite a few teams changing leagues.
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Old 08-11-2014, 07:41 AM   #69
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Old 08-11-2014, 09:28 AM   #70
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If it was Montreal then bring it on.
Bah the Expos need to be in the NL East. I want my all Canadian World Series and the ratings crater that would accompany it!.
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I think they should go 32 teams....4 divisions, div winners go to post season...and that's it..no more after such an expansion
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Old 08-11-2014, 01:23 PM   #72
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I think they should go 32 teams....4 divisions, div winners go to post season...and that's it..no more after such an expansion
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Old 08-11-2014, 02:16 PM   #73
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I think they should go 32 teams....4 divisions, div winners go to post season...and that's it..no more after such an expansion
I find it slightly ironic... lots of folks hate the NFL-style wild cards yet want NFL-style four-team divisions...
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I find it slightly ironic... lots of folks hate the NFL-style wild cards yet want NFL-style four-team divisions...
Everyone hates what they have and wants whats on the other side of the fence.
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Major League Baseball needs to establish clubs in the southern states. Being someone who currently lives in the south (raised in the North though), I can tell you that just about everyone in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Northern Florida roots for the Braves. The Braves are the team of the south and very much are currently representing the entire region.

Sure, Florida has two clubs, but let's be honest, Florida really isn't a traditional southern state. I think Major League Baseball should look into occupying one of the metros in the south like Charlotte, New Orleans, or Nashville.

The south is very passionate about their college baseball and there is a lot of ground that could be taken by a GM moving a team to one of those two cities. This is a region that sells more tickets for NCAA Baseball than any other region by a landslide. If SEC ticket sales are any indicator of the popularity of the sport in the south, then It might be a good move.

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How about we contract the Giants and let the A's move to San Jose.
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How about we contract the Giants and let the A's move to San Jose.
Approved. I hate San Francisco.
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Oakland just needs a new stadium. Tampa Bay needs to relocate though.
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I hated the 1-wildcard system because it mostly made pennant races meaningless, but I don't mind the 2-wildcard system, because it makes winning the division mean something again. No one wants to have to take their chances in a 1-game crapshoot, so you'd better win your division now.
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I think Major League Baseball should look into occupying one of the metros in the south like Charlotte, New Orleans, or Nashville.
Using the economic measure of the total income for those metropolitan statistical areas according to 2010 BEA data, and ranking them against Milwaukee (currently the smallest market in MLB using this measure), it would look like this:

Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC: 103
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI: 100
Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN: 96
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA: 75

Charlotte is just above Milwaukee, while Nashville is just below. New Orleans is well off the pace, however.
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