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PSUColonel · 03-10-2018, 04:12 PM

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Clovidequano Dovatha · 03-18-2018, 05:40 PM

I'd probably stick with more traditional divisions and/or team locations and team names, if possible, but I'm not you, of course. I'd want the Brewers back in the AL where they belong, in any case, and the Astros back in the National, where they belong as well.

I'd perhaps suggest each division, if you don't want to go with four divisions of eight teams each, have four to six teams apiece in them. Perhaps each division could have teams in a pod-like configuration, of some sort, at that. While I was considering how to perhaps set up a dual-subleague setup for at least one version of the North American Baseball Association, or MLB and/or the American Federal Baseball Union, I considered putting teams in four-team pods.

For example, one pod might have teams in Augusta (Ga.), Birmingham, Jupiter (Fla.), and Nashville in it. Another might have teams from Boston, Brooklyn, Charleston (W.V.), and Washington (D.C.) in it. A third might have four teams from the western U.S., and so on and so forth, for one or more subleagues in a particular setup.

Of course, all league divisional configurations and settings that you might use here are entirely up to you, you know. But if you're keeping the Cardinals, you really should have the Cubs and Astros, and perhaps at least the Reds, if not also the Pirates and/or Phillies, in the same division as the Cardinals, in my view. At least for rivalries' sake, and all, that is.

The Yankees and Red Sox definitely have to be together, although due to my strong Cardinal-supporting history, I'd have to say that they don't actually have the best rivalry in all of sports, in my view, simply because I feel that designation belongs most properly to the Cards' rivalry with the Cubs, bar none, and it's not even close in my mind. I still hope, however, that someday, the Cards will eventually have more head-to-head overall regular-season wins over the Cubs than the Cubs have over us currently, but I think even if we were to somehow be able to win all our regular-season games over the Cubs for at least the next 3 to 5 years, the Cubs would still have more head-to-head wins against us during regular-season play, if not even longer than just three to five seasons of such playing against them anywhere.

While they may have more head-to-head wins during the regular season against us than we do against them, we still hold the overall edge in pennants and World Series championships over them, and I think we have about the same number of people associated with our respective franchises in the Hall of Fame currently, if not exactly the same number of such people. And at least a few of them are at least somewhat associated or have been associated with both franchises, if I remember correctly. Such as Lou Brock, Rogers Hornsby, and, of course, BRUCE SUTTER, if memory serves me here well enough, to name just a few such people.

I may not like the Cubs much, in truth, but they are a long and distinguished historical MLB franchise worthy of respect, at least to some degree, of course, just as many other MLB franchises, folks. And I recognize that they have had a lot of great players, even if it technically took them over a century officially to finally win another World Series in their franchise history. That's a record that may probably never be broken, or at least not in the world as we now know it, anyway, I think.

Well, that's probably enough talking here for this post, at least, so I will close this here now, then, folks. Until next time, I wish you all well, in fact, as best as possible, et cetera, for sure. CD out.

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03-18-2018, 05:40 PM	#22
Clovidequano Dovatha Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Somewhere in the United States of America on God's Earth Posts: 7,025	I'd probably stick with more traditional divisions and/or team locations and team names, if possible, but I'm not you, of course. I'd want the Brewers back in the AL where they belong, in any case, and the Astros back in the National, where they belong as well. I'd perhaps suggest each division, if you don't want to go with four divisions of eight teams each, have four to six teams apiece in them. Perhaps each division could have teams in a pod-like configuration, of some sort, at that. While I was considering how to perhaps set up a dual-subleague setup for at least one version of the North American Baseball Association, or MLB and/or the American Federal Baseball Union, I considered putting teams in four-team pods. For example, one pod might have teams in Augusta (Ga.), Birmingham, Jupiter (Fla.), and Nashville in it. Another might have teams from Boston, Brooklyn, Charleston (W.V.), and Washington (D.C.) in it. A third might have four teams from the western U.S., and so on and so forth, for one or more subleagues in a particular setup. Of course, all league divisional configurations and settings that you might use here are entirely up to you, you know. But if you're keeping the Cardinals, you really should have the Cubs and Astros, and perhaps at least the Reds, if not also the Pirates and/or Phillies, in the same division as the Cardinals, in my view. At least for rivalries' sake, and all, that is. The Yankees and Red Sox definitely have to be together, although due to my strong Cardinal-supporting history, I'd have to say that they don't actually have the best rivalry in all of sports, in my view, simply because I feel that designation belongs most properly to the Cards' rivalry with the Cubs, bar none, and it's not even close in my mind. I still hope, however, that someday, the Cards will eventually have more head-to-head overall regular-season wins over the Cubs than the Cubs have over us currently, but I think even if we were to somehow be able to win all our regular-season games over the Cubs for at least the next 3 to 5 years, the Cubs would still have more head-to-head wins against us during regular-season play, if not even longer than just three to five seasons of such playing against them anywhere. While they may have more head-to-head wins during the regular season against us than we do against them, we still hold the overall edge in pennants and World Series championships over them, and I think we have about the same number of people associated with our respective franchises in the Hall of Fame currently, if not exactly the same number of such people. And at least a few of them are at least somewhat associated or have been associated with both franchises, if I remember correctly. Such as Lou Brock, Rogers Hornsby, and, of course, BRUCE SUTTER, if memory serves me here well enough, to name just a few such people. I may not like the Cubs much, in truth, but they are a long and distinguished historical MLB franchise worthy of respect, at least to some degree, of course, just as many other MLB franchises, folks. And I recognize that they have had a lot of great players, even if it technically took them over a century officially to finally win another World Series in their franchise history. That's a record that may probably never be broken, or at least not in the world as we now know it, anyway, I think. Well, that's probably enough talking here for this post, at least, so I will close this here now, then, folks. Until next time, I wish you all well, in fact, as best as possible, et cetera, for sure. CD out.