Yanks could pay MLB to play the Mets more often, etc.
Each team would make decisions on who to play to gather best crowds, but would need to balance this to make the playoffs. Some solution would be needed to for small market teams, that is, use the fees as a pool.
2007-05-20 22:27:12 · 8 answers · asked by WhydoIdothis 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
People are complaining about the schedules. The MLB could put restrictions on the schedules, but let certain games be open to bidding. Sort of a free agency for games.
2007-05-22 23:05:12 · update #1
Why would the Yankees want to play the Mets more often? The Yankees sell over 4 million tickets per year so playing the Mets doesn't really sell many extra tickets. And on top of that those games are virtually meaningless since they don't compete with the Mets for a playoff spot. If they could trade a win vs the Mets for a win vs the White Sox they probably would.
St. Louis is not exactly a big market team but they have a solid winning tradition. The odds are against them but smaller market teams simply need an owner that's willing to invest in the team and a good farm system.
2007-05-21 01:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by Astral Walker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, no, no! Then the team with the most money would buy up all the games against the weakest opponents - there would be no fairness at all in that situation. What would prevent the Yankees, say, from just buying 162 games against Tampa Bay, Kansas City and Texas?
To be truly fair, each team should play all other teams the same number of times, half at home and half on the road.
2007-05-27 21:21:53 · answer #2 · answered by dr_strangeglove_2004 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This would put Baseball's antitrust exemption squared in the middle of Congressional crosshairs to cancel the exemption. Bidding would add fuel to this fire that the owners really want to avoid. Leave scheduling alone and drop interleague play until the World Series.
2007-05-28 20:59:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't do that because the lesser known teams would have trouble selling tickets to games against the second tier teams. You can't have the yankees playing the red sox 162 times a year.
2007-05-28 16:37:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think giving the rich big market teams a chance to buy more of the game would help!
2007-05-25 22:04:56 · answer #5 · answered by Roger B. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like disorganized chaos to me!! You do not provide enough details even for consideration of such a scheme.
Chow!!
2007-05-21 10:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by No one 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they doesn't sound fairr
2007-05-26 16:30:31 · answer #7 · answered by Mark S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't do it.
2007-05-25 02:11:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋