They are paid to be places and play well. It is their job. Manfred the mighty wonder dog wants to get richer.
Manfred can blow that, and likely most if not all of his other ideas on related things, out his a$$.
He likely makes the late Bowie Kuhn seem far more competent in comparison.
They just realigned like thirty or forty years ago......................
I still watch a lot of baseball thanks to T-Mobile giving me the MLB package with my TMHI subscription.
Baseball NEEDS the Yankees/Red Sox, Cardinal/Cubs and Dodgers/Giants rivalries.
Those teams need to be in the same division and they need to stay in their leagues.
We will see how badly crazy realignment has hurt college football.
The SEC should be fine because it has pretty much stayed regional.
But USC playing Rutgers in the Big Ten is downright stupid.
A move like this will likely push the smaller markets into irrelevance and October baseball will be nothing but costal teams with huge payrolls.
I’m that bit surprised to see MLB and the NHL talking about expansion. Where is the talent pool to support this?
I liked it better when the leagues were separate. I made the World Series much more exciting.
If geographical proximity becomes the driving factor, these teams would probably be together in the same division:
Yankees-Mets
White Sox-Cubs
Dodgers-Angels
It should be a crime to use the term “baseball” to describe the athletic exhibition displayed during the summer months.
As dumb as Manfred naming Miziorowski to the All-Star Game.
does anyone really care about this?
don’t forget to introduce male cheerleaders!
If Manfred is uttering this idiocy, the owners are already sold.
They are going to Cracker Barrel baseball. Perfect.
Are these the same “baseball traditionalists” who didn’t protest astroturf, the designated hitter, consolidation of the two leagues into a single organization, moving teams from one league to another, regular season inter-league play, getting rid of the four ball intentional walk, and putting the game to a clock?
There’s actual new American cities that want to finance a stadium for a billionaire baseball owner?
Who knew.
What about the logo? Bad ideas are usually accompanied by a logo change.
No
Fire him, he has done more to destroy the American pastime than any baseball commissioner in history.
Four eight team leagues would be fine as long as AL and NL remain intact, 4 pennant winners play off for World Series berths, back to 154 games, no wild cards, and the Dodgers back to Brooklyn.
What’s not to like?