Ok, I just listened to some sports radio station in Chicago (I think the Score for any Chicagoans answering) and they were complaining about how they think it's weird that the NL Central has 6 teams and the AL West has 4. They say it should be like the NBA where every division has the same amount of teams. So what if the Houston Astros moved to the AL West? I mean there is a Texas team in the AL West already (Texas Rangers) so it could result in a nice division rivalry rather than a conference rivalry. Anyone think this will work? It would give every team the same amount of division games played in a single year and the Astros are already pretty far apart from the teams in their division (Cubs, Pirates, Brewers, Cardinals, and Reds) as it is.
2007-02-21 11:30:26 · 7 answers · asked by Hank 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
i like the idea of evening up the leagues. i see nothing wrong with moving one team to the al(i mean they moved the brewers to the nl, whats the big deal?). i think if they were to do this it shouldn't be the astros moving to the al. they already have a nice little inter league thing going on with the rangers, so why mess that up? i think they should move the diamondbacks to the al west, and move the astros to the nl west. just my opinion.
2007-02-21 12:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by Kenny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move the Pirates from the NL Central to the NL East.
Relocate the Florida Marlins from the East to the AL West by moving the franchise to Portland. The Marlins sell maybe 10,000 tickets per game and are getting no love from their fans there. Portland is a lot bigger than people think it is and as it only has one other professional team (the Trail Blazers) will fit right in there as well as starting a rivalry with the Seattle Mariners.
2007-02-21 11:42:53 · answer #2 · answered by badgerlicious03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only flaw with that reasoning is that it would require having at least one interleague series at a time. Frankly, baseball should have contracted two teams at the time of the 2002 agreement- getting rid of Montreal and Florida. Then you could have had two fourteen team leagues and not worried as much about inbalanced divisions because they could have brought back the two seven team divisions in each league.
2007-02-21 12:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by Patrick M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could work. but even though MLB is one intity. the NL and AL are to different leagues carrying different rules. unlike the NFL where a team can switch conferences. Switching between NL to AL or AL to NL would cause major lineup issues. That wold take a team multiple years to recover from.
2007-02-21 11:40:46 · answer #4 · answered by Aaron G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those guys on the Score just like to hear their own voices. They should just leave well enough alone. I'm from Houston. I don't like the idea.
2007-02-21 11:55:07 · answer #5 · answered by Gomez Addams 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That sounds awesome
2007-02-22 04:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by raggnaar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
makes sense, I don't think that many baseball people would want that but it does seem reasonable
2007-02-21 11:56:44 · answer #7 · answered by Jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋