Baseball

[smc]

Originally Posted by oldawg

Ha, Ha, Ha...SMC youre a son-of-a-gun for sure...the wild card issue is the one where i don't actually have an answer, so of course thats what you call me out on!!!

Well first of all, MLB needs to rectify the problem of the imbalanced leagues...The NL has 16 teams & the AL has 14. What's up with that? Somehow the NL Central needs to lose a team & the AL West needs to add one. Problem is I don't think any of those NL Central teams will voluntarily go to the AL at all, let alone to the Western Division. Hows any of these ideas:

1) Move Houston to the AL West
2) Move Houston to the NL West; Arizona or Colorado to AL West
3) Move Milwaukee back to the AL Central; Kansas City to AL West

The expansion teams(Arizona & Colorado) have no right to claim League or Division loyalty. Kansas City could use a change. Milwaukee won't go back to the AL.

Theres not enough teams for four divisions in each league, & I would hate to see a NHL-type of point system determining playoff seedings. Also, theres of course not enough pitching talent to expand the league to 32 teams, so for now i think we're stuck with 3 division winners & the wild card.

I think at this point we're way beyond the 2 division leagues. After having so many races for all these years, I don't think anyone would want to go back to that (Myself included...the Mets would be out of it by June most years).

Actually, upon rereading your point regarding the round 1 bye, it is sounding better & better. But they need to even out the leagues of course...

Just to be clear, my intent was not to call you out on the Wild Card issue, but only to point out that it is one of those great conundrums: something that needs to be changed, but with no obvious or easy solution. Note that I agreed with your original assessment that the Wild Card is just wrong.