At first glance I though this plan had some potential, but now after reading about it, I am dead set against it. This baseball realignment plan doesn't make sense from a rang of view points. First of all it brings a team of the National to the American League, which on the surface is not a bad thing, but if you do that you have 15 teams in each league which doesn't work (not an even number). With 15 teams in each league you have have inter-league play each day, you don't want to have 80 inter-league games each season and 40 games played under the rules of the other league, you could ruin the American League as we know it, because teams are going to have to play 40 games with out the DH. It was also proposed that we eliminate the divisions and have two fifteen team leagues, that puts teams out of contention in June and eliminates the division races. If we had two fifteen team divisions and advanced the first five, by June the 10th-15th place teams would be out of contention and we would have none of the great races we're having now.
I am all for adding a second wild card in each league, which makes winning your division mean something. This is our national pastime don't don't take the regular season away from us.
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