Re: MLB considering radical floating realignment

[Banedon]

The only balancing that needs to be done, imo, is the removal of interleague "rivalries".

[jersey cubs fan]

I do care about it in the MLB. With a schedule that's 10 times longer in the MLB, you have a much better opportunity to makes things fair and get the 4 best teams in each league into playoff spots. In the NFL even if every team plays the other 15 teams in its division, due to sample size, and the fact that the schedules still won't be fair because of home/road games, its still going to lead to a level of randomness that can't be removed. In baseball you can make a 174 game schedule where you play each of the other 29 teams 3 games at home and 3 games on the road, or a 154 game schedule where the 14 other teams in each league (1 NL team moves to AL) play each other 5 times at home 5 times on the road. It's still not going to make everythign 100% fair but nothing really will, we can only try to get as close as possible.

 

I'm not in favor of this, like I said, I'm about finding a middle ground between fair and exciting. Playing the Pirates 15 times a year at the expense of the Mets and Phillies and Dodgers, is not what I consider exciting.

 

That's going to require all sorts of 2 games series that the union hates playing in, take away a whole bunch of gate revenue from the games that actually matter to fans and add on a whole bunch of travel costs. There's just no good reason to try and emphasize a balanced schedule. It's a 162 game schedule, the best teams are going to make the playoffs.

[Soul]

More free floating radicals. Good thing, yes sir.