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2 months ago :: Feb 03, 2023 - 7:04PM #1
Hobbs Posts: 268	I've been thinking about this for a long time, then I saw a similar idea posted on another site and got me thinking about it again and wanted to get some feed back on it.... In order to cut down on travel time and late night west coast games that few people watch. what if you created two leagues, American League with east coast teams and the National league with west coast teams. Eliminate interleague play. The two leagues don't meet till the world series. Kind of like the old days. 15 teams in each league and two wild cards from each league. Let's say.... American, NYY, NYM, BOS, BAL, TOR, TB, ATL, PHI, MIA, WAS, CIN, PIT, CLE, CHC, CWS. National, LAD, LAA, SD, SF, OAK, SEA, ARZ, COL, TEX, HOU, KC, MIN, MIL, STL, DET. You could add expansion teams also, say Las Vegas in the west and maybe Nashville in the east. IMO this would reduce travel expenses for the teams, less wear on the players. Create more rivalries and fan intrest. Imagine more Yankee mets games or Cubs Whitesox. What do you think, Crazy idea?
2 months ago :: Feb 03, 2023 - 7:56PM #2
manbot Posts: 2,655	No 10 PM Yankee Games!! I like that
2 months ago :: Feb 03, 2023 - 9:43PM #3
Paterson Posts: 9,213	Try building a schedule and the problems will jump out at you.
2 months ago :: Feb 03, 2023 - 11:15PM #4
jimwest Posts: 5,265	Don't want to see that. Playing the Mets and Red Sox so much would be a turnoff. Also taking away all the games vs the teams in the other league, never seeing them, nor their star players, like a Trout, Soto, Ohtani, etc. That realignment would be an AL/NL in name only. Many of the teams would switch leagues. Many historic rivalries of teams in each league would vanish. Geographic rivalries have some merit. But as has been seen, when some teams start battling for playoff spots, division or league titles over a couple of years or so, a rivalry develops. Yanks-Rays became a rivalry, Yanks-Astros has. If I was thinking of expansion, Montreal would get their team in the NL back. With interleague play, that would be a natural rivalry with the Blue Jays. Portland might be better as the second expansion club, in the AL, as that would help Seattle. Their travel is the most demanding, and it also creates another regional rivalry.
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 10:04AM #5
manbot Posts: 2,655	I'd like to play every team 6 times 3 games home and 3 games away but that would be a few to many games 29 x 6 = 174 So ... They could start preseason 2 weeks earlier and play 12 actual games in the Grapefruit and Cactus league stadiums (the last 2 weeks of May) before heading back to their regular stadiums and the remaining 162 game schedule starting in April You could expand the rosters the first 2 weeks of the season to continue to get a look a some players who may be on the bubble
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 10:53AM #6
bruner4329 Posts: 4,976	Not realistic at all. Why? Because you are proposing to reduce the number of playoff teams down to 6. That will never happen in this day and age when the trend has been to expand the number.
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 12:04PM #7
Max Posts: 11,354	Feb 4, 2023 -- 10:53AM, bruner4329 wrote: Not realistic at all. Why? Because you are proposing to reduce the number of playoff teams down to 6. That will never happen in this day and age when the trend has been to expand the number. My guess is that west coast teams would want a popular team like the Yankees to play at least one series in their home stadiums.
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 12:08PM #8
NW Posts: 5,080	There is zero chance that you're going to lump basically all of the large market teams except LA into one division. The western teams need the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Braves, Cubs, and White Sox visiting them. Players would also not want to play in a league where 3/4 of their games will start after the prime 7pm viewing time in the money markets.
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 12:10PM #9
SSBob Posts: 12,958	Feb 4, 2023 -- 12:04PM, Max wrote: Feb 4, 2023 -- 10:53AM, bruner4329 wrote: Not realistic at all. Why? Because you are proposing to reduce the number of playoff teams down to 6. That will never happen in this day and age when the trend has been to expand the number. My guess is that west coast teams would want a popular team like the Yankees to play in their home stadiums. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ticket prices are always a premium at all ballparks when Yanks visit, especially interleague.
2 months ago :: Feb 04, 2023 - 12:16PM #10
Max Posts: 11,354	Don't like the idea of MLB adding 2 expansion teams. In my opinion, the talent in MLB is already watered down. If anything MLB should consider contraction. There's at least 2 MLB teams that have attendance issues.