Posted on 08/22/2025 6:42:10 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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?
Go back to the way it used to be. Ditch the divisions, no wildcards or divisional or league championship series.
Just the two Pennant winners, going straight to the World Series.
You should be rewarded for the best record over the course of the season, not just for getting hot at the right time.
I liked it better when the leagues were separate. I made the World Series much more exciting.
They should be talking contraction.
Get rid of the Florida teams, for starters.
162 games then straight to the World Series.
Plus you can start the season later.
The playoffs are already watered down.
Go back to 154 games.
Never happen, this is ALL about TV money. I'm surprised they don't make all these playoffs the best of 9 just to get more playoff games.
Agreed. I hate interleague play.
Just to make it interesting for other clubs, you could have something like The FA Cup in soccer, which is a single-elimination tournament over the course of the season.
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.
Baseball should be international
As dumb as Manfred naming Miziorowski to the All-Star Game.
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