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Originally Posted by norva13x
I like that for the most part, however my only issue is that a balanced schedule pretty much makes divisions useless. I like number 3, I think that would be a great alternative to any type of salary cap to increase parity. Great suggestion!
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Thanks.
However, a balanced schedule does not render divisions useless. The Orioles, Rays, and Jays still have to beat out at least one of the Red Sox and Yankees, they just don't have to play them 18 or 19 freakin' times a year. Your argument makes sense sans Wild Card. With the addition of the Wild Card though the Orioles, Rays, and Jays deserve the same shot as the teams in the Central and the teams in the West have to lay claim to it. There is no way you can claim that they have that right now. Not even close.
Now, if you want to add two more teams to the AL, dump the Wild Card, and have four 4 team divisions in each league with an unbalanced schedule, I'd be down with that. I'm not sure MLB would though because it would mean, assuming the Yankees and Red Sox were in the same division (and why wouldn't they be? FOX would demand it), that either one or the other would be in the playoffs at the most, but not both. Of course at that point MLB would expand the playoffs in a desperate attempt to get FOX's, I mean, their beloved rivals into the playoffs together as often as possible. It's a bit of a farce really and I don't see much of a way around it, until baseball fans get fed up with Yankees/Red Sox, Red Sox/Yankees, Yankees/Red Sox and on and on ad nauseam and start tuning out...I'm pretty bored with it, but I'm not stupid enough to claim that I represent any more than 1% of MLB fandom (if that) though. I'm sure it'll take a long while for people to get as sick of it as I am. "The Rivalry" is just far too "compelling".
