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  • #16
    Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I'm all for 32. I like powers of 2.

    Of course, I would also be OK returning the league to 1968.

    Or 1948 if we swap the Braves with the Mets.
    Move the Dodgers back to Brooklyn and my father would be thrilled with this.
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    • #17
      Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

      Originally posted by Russell Jaslow View Post
      Move the Dodgers back to Brooklyn and my father would be thrilled with this.
      Yankees in the Bronx, Giants in Manhattan, Dodgers in Brooklyn, Mets in Queens. And most important, no MLB west of St. Louis. Make the PCL Great Again.

      Staten Island can root for the Phillies. They should be in New Jersey anyway.

      I'm surprised there has been no ML team in CT since IIRC Hartford in the 19th C. (fun fact: Mark Twain's favorite team).
      Last edited by Kepler; 02-12-2020, 08:03 AM.
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      • #18
        Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        I'm surprised there has been no ML team in CT since IIRC Hartford in the 19th C. (fun fact: Mark Twain's favorite team).
        But would he have been a Whalers fan?
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        • #19
          Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

          I think the league is absolutely ready for expansion of teams and (slightly) playoff teams. While I don't like the idea of a 100+ win team getting stopped in a 1-game playoff by a mediocre team with a terrific pitcher, I feel like a 3-game series would alleviate that.

          My idea:
          • Add two teams (Vegas? Portland? I dunno)
          • Even out the divisions
          • No more unbalanced schedule
          • 6 playoff teams per league
          • Put the DH in the national league and tell the old farts to **** off
          • 154 game season so we don't take the playoffs halfway into November


          Playoff format:
          • Copy the NFL - it's the one thing they do right
          • Top two teams get a bye
          • Remaining 4 play best-of-3 series
          • Reseed second round, and the rest of the playoffs are best-of-7
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          • #20
            Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

            As the resident promoter of All Things Portland I do not recommend baseball in Portland. It isn't a baseball city. Portland is a soccer town in the summer and a hockey town in the winter (indeed Portland should have gotten the N instead of Seattle -- the comparative WHL support is far stronger for Portland, and we are farther from Vancouver).

            Quite frankly Portlanders have better things to do in the summer than watch baseball. A domed stadium would be an eyesore and not fit in with the local ethos or culture. It's just a bad idea.

            To me the obvious places for baseball are Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even Albuquerque before Portland. Phoenix is getting so huge a second team will eventually be viable (say, Tempe, or maybe Glendale though Glendale sucks).
            Last edited by Kepler; 02-12-2020, 10:19 AM.
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            • #21
              Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

              Originally posted by Swansong View Post
              Put the DH in the national league and tell the old farts to **** off
              Kepler to Swansong: "Drop dead."
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              • #22
                Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                I like whatever keeps WC teams playing an elimination game/series in the first round. I like that winning a division gets you a breather, which puts more incentive there.

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                • #23
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                  Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                  I like whatever keeps WC teams playing an elimination game/series in the first round. I like that winning a division gets you a breather, which puts more incentive there.
                  I wouldn't mind this scenario if winning a division was always an indication of a superior team. But with unbalanced schedules a 93 win WC team may be a better team than a 95 win Division winner.

                  I say eliminate divisions, play everybody an equal number of times, eliminate interleague play, and just pick the top whatever from each league for the postseason. Top 7 maybe, and number 1 gets a bye. That gets you an expanded playoff and gives real incentives to winning the most games. This after a 154 game regular season (play everyone 11 times). Oh and no expansion of teams. 30 is enough.

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                  • #24
                    Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                    4 divisions of 4 in each league.
                    No interleague.
                    Balanced schedule.
                    Only division winners get in the playoffs.

                    If you want interest, make teams spend their money. We arent here to justify the pirates owners horrible spending by adding more playoff teams.
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                    • #25
                      Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                      If I am made Dictator of Baseball:

                      (0) Split the leagues. The only contact between leagues will be the ASG and the WS. No interleague RS. Each league has full control over everything within their leagues including how they select their AS team and their WS nominee.

                      So, now I give the Dictatorship of the American League to somebody else.

                      As Dictator of the National League:

                      (1) RS 20 weeks from mid-April to mid-September: 2 off days per week and doubleheaders on Sundays, for 20 x 6 = 120 games
                      (2) Send the Brewers back to the American League, reducing the league to 14 teams (nothing personal)
                      (3) Two Divisions of 7 teams each: East (NY, Wsh, Phi, Pgh, Atl, Mia, Cin) and West (Az, StL, LA, SF, SD, Col, Chi)
                      (4) 13 games x 6 divisional opponents + 6 games x 7 non-divisional opponents
                      (5) Playoffs: 2 division winners and 2 wildcards; seeded by record, best of 7 league SF and F series
                      Last edited by Kepler; 02-12-2020, 11:22 AM.
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                      • #26
                        Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                        Random thought:

                        Does the emphasis on "specialty pitching" eventually become the reason MLB reduces the regular season?

                        Kep may be on to something with the mandatory off days. Your star pitchers have 30 gamedays in them between April and October. This is a good way to get those guys into a higher percentage of a team's games.
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                        • #27
                          Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          As the resident promoter of All Things Portland I do not recommend baseball in Portland. It isn't a baseball city. Portland is a soccer town in the summer and a hockey town in the winter (indeed Portland should have gotten the N instead of Seattle -- the comparative WHL support is far stronger for Portland, and we are farther from Vancouver).

                          Quite frankly Portlanders have better things to do in the summer than watch baseball. A domed stadium would be an eyesore and not fit in with the local ethos or culture. It's just a bad idea.

                          To me the obvious places for baseball are Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even Albuquerque before Portland. Phoenix is getting so huge a second team will eventually be viable (say, Tempe, or maybe Glendale though Glendale sucks).
                          I defer to you on this - I love Portland (though only spent one night there) and it always comes up in these discussions. I have zero strong feelings on it.


                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
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                          Going back to the days of totally separate leagues is never going to happen, and frankly shouldn't. Different leagues with different rules makes sense when the quality of one team to the next is variable (European Soccer, for example, has a million teams and a million leagues of different qualities). But parity in American major league sports is such that players constantly bounce around and there's just no need for artificial boundaries anymore. MLB is, for the most part, bound in that 60-40 split where the crappier teams bottom out around .400 winning percentage and the better teams top out around .600 (please note I said "better" and "crappier", not "best" and "worst"). One set of rules for all 30/32 teams is ideal.
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                          • #28
                            Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            (2) Send the Brewers back to the American League, reducing the league to 14 teams (nothing personal)
                            Does this mean I can then be dictator of the AL? I move the Brewers back to the NL.

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                            • #29
                              Re: MLB 2020: A New Hope

                              Trevor Bauer has some opinions...

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by jen View Post
                                Does this mean I can then be dictator of the AL? I move the Brewers back to the NL.
                                So neither league wants them?
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