| Realignment proposal:
NL East Atlanta New York Mets Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cincinnati Tampa NL West St. Louis Chicago Cubs Houston San Diego Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado AL East Boston New York Yankees Detroit Baltimore Cleveland Toronto Milwaukee AL West Chicago White Sox Kansas City Seattle Texas Anaheim Arizona Oakland Contracted: Florida & Minnesota Switched leagues: Arizona, Milwaukee, Tampa Schedule: balanced Wild Card: dead Interleague: dead Salary Cap: $45 million A few thoughts about this new alignment: - Sticking the Brewers back in the A.L. East, pissing off Selig that he no longer can rely on 10 visits from the Cubs & their fans each year (tho technically the Selig's don't own the Brewers anymore) - Going back to a traditional A.L. East where the Tigers rightfully get back to their roots. - A modest salary cap at $45 million. This would result in player salary dropping dramatically, but it's still more than enough�or deserve - Competitive balance is back, thanks to an even schedule playing everyone in the league the same amount of times. - Suddenly now Pittsburgh, K.C. & Tampa can all compete on the same level as the Yankees or Red Sox. - As of the moment, Minnesota gets contracted instead of Tampa, solely because of stadium issues. - The end of Interleague play. This was a Selig idea, and there's never anything good about Selig ideas. For every "natural rivalry", you get 5 shitty natural rivalries. It's just stupid. - Even tho the season is a week shorter due to the death of the Wild Card, I'd shorten the schedule to at least 150 games, or which ever lower number makes a mathematically even schedule. - The genuine pennant race is back. And if your team is out of it on August 1st, then you should be out doing something else anyway. Tho personally, I'd like to see them get back to 4 divisions of six teams. The other four I'd like to contract: Tampa, Arizona, Colorado & K.C. A couple of years ago, it would had been Montreal that would had been contracted. I hate the idea of MLB in Colorado, because it's a horrible place to pitch. |