This is supposed to be rivalry weekend, and therefore we see the Chicago, New York, Florida, Texas, Ohio, Los Angeles and Bay area teams facing off in the first of two interleague weekend series. Because the NL has two more teams than the AL, two NL teams have to sit out every weekend. And since teams like Boston, Arizona and Colorado have no natural rivalry in the opposite league, MLB has rotated the rivalry pairings amongst the remaining AL teams. That makes sense, otherwise you'd have the same two NL teams being left out every year during the rivalry weekends.
But what confuses me is the pairing of St. Louis and Detroit. I have come to assume that teams with natural geographic rivalries are exempt from the rotation, yet the Royals and Cardinals are not playing this weekend. I thought those two were annual rivals? Am I wrong or did this change? Could the New York or Chicago rivalries be sacrificed in the future?
2007-05-19
00:22:54
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