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However, a balanced schedule does not render divisions useless. The Orioles, Rays, and Jays still have to beat out at least one of the Red Sox and Yankees, they just don't have to play them 18 or 19 freakin' times a year. Your argument makes sense sans Wild Card. With the addition of the Wild Card though the Orioles, Rays, and Jays deserve the same shot as the teams in the Central and the teams in the West have to lay claim to it. There is no way you can claim that they have that right now. Not even close. Now, if you want to add two more teams to the AL, dump the Wild Card, and have four 4 team divisions in each league with an unbalanced schedule, I'd be down with that. I'm not sure MLB would though because it would mean, assuming the Yankees and Red Sox were in the same division (and why wouldn't they be? FOX would demand it), that either one or the other would be in the playoffs at the most, but not both. Of course at that point MLB would expand the playoffs in a desperate attempt to get FOX's, I mean, their beloved rivals into the playoffs together as often as possible. It's a bit of a farce really and I don't see much of a way around it, until baseball fans get fed up with Yankees/Red Sox, Red Sox/Yankees, Yankees/Red Sox and on and on ad nauseam and start tuning out...I'm pretty bored with it, but I'm not stupid enough to claim that I represent any more than 1% of MLB fandom (if that) though. I'm sure it'll take a long while for people to get as sick of it as I am. "The Rivalry" is just far too "compelling". |
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As a Cardinals fan, why would I want to see them play the Nats the same number of times they play the Cubs? Having interesting match-ups during an interminable season trumps whatever competitive balance you're aiming for. If we're going to mess around with the schedule: - Get rid of inter-league play. - Fire whoever has been doing the schedules for the last couple of seasons. They seem to have no concept of when match-ups should take place. For example, the Cardinals and Cubs met once after the All Star break. Once. Ridiculous.
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Baseball is not any business, it is a huge business, where owners make hundreds of millions of dollars and the slaves who toil for them only see mere tens of millions of dollars. I wholeheartedly agree on your last point. MLB is the business. The teams are parts of the whole. Kind of like different departments within one business. The best thing for the business is to have each department functioning at an optimum/efficient level. If one department isn't functioning well, the others are going to suffer for it. But what do I know? I'm just a bitter Jays fan. |
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This has actually happened in Europe a few times already in soccer -- when teams don't feel their current leagues are serving their best interests, they just start new ones. It's a little easier to do over there, though, because the player unions aren't generally as strong.
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You'd still get to see the Cubs play, it just wouldn't comprise one ninth of the schedule or whatever it is. You know, it makes it more of an event. Interleague has destroyed the mystery and intrigue that used to happen when AL met NL in the World Series. In the same way so many games within a division kind of takes the mickey out of a rivalry. A really good example of the destruction of a rivalry due to the lack of games outside the division is the rivalry between the Tigers and Jays in the mid-'80's. A lot of Tiger fans live up this way. It was a huge rivalry. They now play six, and if you're lucky seven and sometimes nine or ten games a year. Phhht! There goes that rivalry. It really lacks the intensity it used to have. It's just another game in the schedule against a non-divisional opponent, so that 18 or 19 can be played against opponents within your own division. Meh...Bah humbug...Phooey! |
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Technically their one of the original 8 AL Teams though. If we start moving teams around like that we might as well abandon the "League" system.
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That said, the Cards' 2010 September schedule looks better, with the exception of wrapping up the season against the Rockies.
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It really wouldnt be a smart business decision at this point but if the league got too harsh with them they certainly COULD do it. The league cant force them to to do anything. It would be like you going out and buying a McDonalds franchise. As long as you are using their their supplies and advertising you have to follow their rules. If you decided to get rid of their franchise label and start your own fast food chain you can do whatever you want. |
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Get rid of the DH, Wild Card and Interleague play.
Bring the Braves back to Boston and the Dodgers back to Brooklyn. Contract the Red Sox and Yankees. Tom
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Add extra interleague series. AL teams play 8 series, NL teams play 7.
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