With Realignment Talks in the Air, I Cant Stay Away

[Destined]

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Either or. If Houston stays, then they go to the NL West.
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I'd guess that they would want Houston in NL, just to maintain an AL/NL representation in Texas. Same reason for Milwaukee not going back to the AL, because of the Twins.
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The easiest thing to do when expansion first happened, was to settle AZ into the AL West. Politics got in the way and both CO and AZ wanted to be in the NL, so Selig bent over and let them have their way with him.
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Rules aside, why would an expansion team want to be in the NL opposed to the AL? What does it matter what league you're in?