Should the MLB intertwine the AL and NL and have a 1-8 playoff system?

Question

What if the MLB had AL vs. NL match-ups in the playoffs? If they did this, they would have the best teams in the World Series. If you had that, this is what the playoffs would look like right now---

1. Boston Red Sox
2. Los Angeles Angels
3. Cleveland Indians
4. Detroit Tigers
5. Seattle Mariners
6. New York Mets
7. San Diego Padres
8. Arizona Diamondbacks

If you had this, you could have an AL vs. AL match-up in the World Series. Lets say the Yankees surged back into the playoffs??? I wouldn't mind watching a Red Sox vs. Yankees match-up in the World Series. Last years World Series was BORING!!! You had the much better Detriot Tigers playing the lucky St. Louis Cardinals. The Tigers got beat up by the better AL while the Cardinals went through no one in the playoffs. Who else wants a change?

Answer 1

i'd like to see a nyy and bos world series....i've seen dumber things done in sports...i'd say you can seed them 1-8 and have the 1 and 8 face...2 and 7 etc until you get to the world series...and of course it still holds the values of the leagues because the NL teams when they play at home will still have the pitcher bat....

the only difference between this and basketball (besides that they do this system for each conference) is that there is no difference in between the conferences (other than time zones)

just to tweak your idea jack...why not do a 1-8 system FOR EACH LEAGUE...and have the winners face off....if you'd like to mimic the basketball one...i mean the baseball teams play more games than the basketball teams so i'm sure they can handle a longer season.....and more teams would make the playoffs which i'm sure would save some coaches' jobs and allow more games for marketing..watching...and the teams would make more money from tickets....

i'd give you that the cardinals are lucky...since they had one of the worst records in the ENTIRE PLAYOFFS...but they did win fair and square and powered their way through the mets....i agree the tigers had harder competition..but in this system whoever ends up as the 8 seed would have a very tough road ahead of them.....

i'd also recommend that after each round...you tweak the systems so that we avoid the 2 best teams facing in an earlier round...to take it to basketball...i'd tweak it so the SPURS and SUNS face in the conference finals rather than in the conference semis.....

otherwise that's not a bad idea jack

Answer 2

What the hell does MLB need a playoff system for at all ? Surely not to determine whether the team crowned World Champion is worthy of the name.
Before the idiotic creation of the playoff system all pennant winners won their crowns honestly. They played all the contenders and pretenders in their respective leagues numerous times and after six months and 154-162 games a bona -fide champion emerged.
The message was clear :true excellence is worth striving for and will be rewarded.
A championship should never come down to the roll of the dice on a short series because that would devalue the effort of those who strove all season long for excellence thereby setting a bad precedent.
In a different world and a different time a team such as last years WS winners The St Loius Cardninals would not even be playing in the WS because they were not worthy of it having won 14 games less than the true NL champions The NY Mets.
Just because the liberal pencil necked marketing geeks think that the best way to create artificial interest in MLB is to set up an egalatarian money making playoff sytem doesn't make it right .It was a bad idea for baseball when they created it and it's still a bad idea.

Answer 3

bad idea. they each have there own rules that makes them unique. that's like combining the mets and the Yankees into the same team. It just isn't right. In the nl pitchers hit, which brings more strategy to thee game. In th Al there are designated hitters which can prop long players careers. What would they do with the all-star game? have team captions and choose? Come on. If you would do your research you would see the league domination changes ever couple of years, Like in the eighties when the Reds and Pete Rose ruled. Or when nobody used to be able to touch the dodgers. its a natural cycle. And the whole thing with the tiger and Cards is bull. They better team wins the games. I don't care who the tigers went through, they didn't get the job done when it mattered. And the better team always does. I'm not defending the cards cause I'm a die hard Astros fan. I'm just saying. Its a good idea, but it would never work, and I personally would not want it to happen

Answer 4

Man, that would be so lame. Talk about destroying the integrity of the game. Why even have the different leagues than? That misses the whole point of why there is a World Series. Interleague play itself has hurt that, but a format like that would completely screw everything up. If the Tigers were so much better, than why'd they get killed in the World Series? They weren't beat up, they choked. St. Louis went through no one? What about the Mets? Give me a break. You're idea would never ever ever happen. I can gurantee you that.

Answer 5

while not a horrible idea, it just could never happen. baseball has more "purists" than any other sport due to the fact that it has been around the longest. last year was hopefully just a fluke situation where the al was so much stronger then the nl and by the time the al champ got the series they were just worn out. the nl seems stronger this year and i think the playoffs in general will be extremely entertaining...i like that you are thinking outside the box though. i've never heard that idea before.

Answer 6

I don't think it's a bad idea to have more NL-AL matchups. Every other Major American Sport (basketball, football) have competition between the two conferences. But neither have a playoff system between each.
I think it's a good idea to have the playoffs seperate. It's better to have a World Series between the two different leagues, so they both get some pride.

Answer 7

I agree that a Yankees - Red Sox World Series would be awesome...but I just couldn't see an all AL-AL or NL-NL world series. If they ever did do that than they should just break up both leagues, expand the divisions and have all teams play each other every year. Chaos would ensue.

Answer 8

Al= Yankees, Tigers, Angels, pink Sox Nl= Phillies, Cardinals, Dodgers, Rockies. If the Giants get yet another bat then i might %. them yet earlier i %. the rockies over the giants in the wild card.

Answer 9

yeah you do have i point there. it would really make things more intresting to the fans and viewers. and the only reason this wouldnt work is becuase of the schedules. the AL teams play the AL teams all through the regualr season and same with the NL. if you are going to make this scheme work you are going to have to have everybody play everybody in the league. so yeah i think its a good idea as long as they change the schedule.

Answer 10

lets say the bottom four seeds get eliminated. then its only A.L. teams left? the system they have now is almost perfect. you have the best team from the N.L. vs the best team from the A.L. thats how the world series should be