On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:32 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless I missed something, the only way to eliminate the scourge of > season-long Interleague play (I'm not counting cross-town rivalry series > like the old Mayor's Trophy/Subway Series in NY, which I wouldn't mind once > a year, but not for a home & home), MLB would need to add at least one > expansion team to restore even numbers to the two leagues... > > Which begs the question...where would that expansion team go? What would > be a good mid-major market with enough distance from another MLB team that > might be a good candidate? (I'm going to assume that the northeast, > Florida, Texas and California are automatically eliminated based on > existing team density.) The only reason they have an odd number of teams in each league now is because the moved the Astros to the AL - specifically to facilitate their evil inter-league plans. It would be easy enough to move a team back to the NL, and have 16 in the NL and 14 in the AL. I think a 16-team league with two 8-team divisions is ideal (each division would be as large as each league used to be), but two-7-team divisions would work okay as well, which would set up a two-tier post-season, which I would prefer. But in the TV era they can not tolerate so many second-division teams, so they could still add 2 wild-cards in each division, with a one-game playoff (the only thing that makes the wild card palatable), with the wild card winner playing the division winner (who would have the home field advantage), and then on to the league championship, and then the WS. I would eliminate all IL play, even in the 4-6 places it might make sense (NY, SOCAL, NOCAL, Chicago - and I guess maybe MO and TX, if they move the Astros back). -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
