With Realignment Talks in the Air, I Cant Stay Away

[jstraw]

Another problem that arises from too many games between natural or geographic rivals is that you'd never get an agreement about television revenues. Simply due to relative audience size, it's simply unfair to have the Yankees and Mets play a shitload of games and also have the Twins and Brewers play a like number of games. These days you'd have to base divisions ss much on spreading around the media markets almost as importantly ass much as you would to soert out the geography.

The only kind of realignment I would like would be sending the Brewers to the AL West which would fix the major thing that's broken which is 4 teams in the AL West and Six in the NL Central.

I'm sure I don't know enough history that explains why they're not there now. It's not like it would be an unnatural grouping for sorting out the 4/6 groupings. It's a perfectly natural geographic alignment.

[AnnoCatuli]

<!--quoteo(post=82678:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Another problem that arises from too many games between natural or geographic rivals is that you'd never get an agreement about television revenues. Simply due to relative audience size, it's simply unfair to have the Yankees and Mets play a shitload of games and also have the Twins and Brewers play a like number of games. These days you'd have to base divisions ss much on spreading around the media markets almost as importantly ass much as you would to soert out the geography.

The only kind of realignment I would like would be sending the Brewers to the AL West which would fix the major thing that's broken which is 4 teams in the AL West and Six in the NL Central.

I'm sure I don't know enough history that explains why they're not there now. It's not like it would be an unnatural grouping for sorting out the 4/6 groupings. It's a perfectly natural geographic alignment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


The reason there are now six divisions, is because they added a few teams. The reason why one division needs to have six teams while another has three, is you need to have one league have more teams than the other, because if both leagues had 15 teams, one team from each league would be off for at least three days at a time. All about making sure every team can play at the same time.

Plus, the Brewers wouldnt be a fit in the ALW

If you were to make a change, move houston to the NLW and the Rockies to the ALW

[jstraw]

<!--quoteo(post=82681:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:37 PM:name=AnnoCatuli)-->QUOTE (AnnoCatuli @ Mar 13 2010, 11:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=82678:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Another problem that arises from too many games between natural or geographic rivals is that you'd never get an agreement about television revenues. Simply due to relative audience size, it's simply unfair to have the Yankees and Mets play a shitload of games and also have the Twins and Brewers play a like number of games. These days you'd have to base divisions ss much on spreading around the media markets almost as importantly ass much as you would to soert out the geography.

The only kind of realignment I would like would be sending the Brewers to the AL West which would fix the major thing that's broken which is 4 teams in the AL West and Six in the NL Central.

I'm sure I don't know enough history that explains why they're not there now. It's not like it would be an unnatural grouping for sorting out the 4/6 groupings. It's a perfectly natural geographic alignment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


The reason there are now six divisions, is because they added a few teams. The reason why one division needs to have six teams while another has three, is you need to have one league have more teams than the other, because if both leagues had 15 teams, one team from each league would be off for at least three days at a time. All about making sure every team can play at the same time.

Plus, the Brewers wouldnt be a fit in the ALW

If you were to make a change, move houston to the NLW and the Rockies to the ALW
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There's a division with three teams in it? There are four with five teams, one with six teams and one with four. I'm not getting how this one team offset fixes the schedules. Can you elaborate. How do schedules go to hell if there are six divisions, each with five teams?

You're absolutely right about Houston and Arizona being the key to evening out the divisions. Not sure what I was thinking.

[AnnoCatuli]

<!--quoteo(post=82682:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:47 PM:name=jstraw)-->QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 13 2010, 11:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=82681:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:37 PM:name=AnnoCatuli)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AnnoCatuli @ Mar 13 2010, 11:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=82678:date=Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Mar 13 2010, 11:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Another problem that arises from too many games between natural or geographic rivals is that you'd never get an agreement about television revenues. Simply due to relative audience size, it's simply unfair to have the Yankees and Mets play a shitload of games and also have the Twins and Brewers play a like number of games. These days you'd have to base divisions ss much on spreading around the media markets almost as importantly ass much as you would to soert out the geography.

The only kind of realignment I would like would be sending the Brewers to the AL West which would fix the major thing that's broken which is 4 teams in the AL West and Six in the NL Central.

I'm sure I don't know enough history that explains why they're not there now. It's not like it would be an unnatural grouping for sorting out the 4/6 groupings. It's a perfectly natural geographic alignment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->


The reason there are now six divisions, is because they added a few teams. The reason why one division needs to have six teams while another has three, is you need to have one league have more teams than the other, because if both leagues had 15 teams, one team from each league would be off for at least three days at a time. All about making sure every team can play at the same time.

Plus, the Brewers wouldnt be a fit in the ALW

If you were to make a change, move houston to the NLW and the Rockies to the ALW
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There's a division with three teams in it? There are four with five teams, one with six teams and one with four. I'm not getting how this one team offset fixes the schedules. Can you elaborate. How do schedules go to hell if there are six divisions, each with five teams?

You're absolutely right about Houston and Arizona being the key to evening out the divisions. Not sure what I was thinking.
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Sorry about that, simple typo. Yeah, one has 4 teams.

[Destined]

<b>Atlantic</b>
New York Yankees
New York Mets
Boston Red Sox
Baltimore Orioles
Washington Nationals

<b>North</b>
Cleveland Indians
Philadelphia Phillies
Toronto Blue Jays
Detroit Tigers
Pittsburgh Pirates

<b>Midwest</b>
Milwaukee Brewers
Cincinnati Reds
Chicago White Sox
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals

<b>South</b>
Atlanta Braves
Tampa Rays
Florida Marlins
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros

<b>
Pacific</b>
San Francisco Giants
Oakland A's
Los Angeles Angels
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres

<b>West </b>
Arizona Diamondbacks
Colorado Rockies
Seattle Mariners
Kansas City Royals
Minnesota Twins

In this scenario, only the Twins and Royals would suffer with timezone delays.

[bz]

There's no answer.

[SandbergMVP1984]

While I agree with bz, I do want to chime in anyway. Interleague games are no longer "special." If they moved one NL team to the AL west, there would be no problem having at least one interleague series constantly being played for the entire season (there were 251 games last year). As usual, baseball is being stupid stubborn for no good reason.