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Competitive integrity demands more than just realignment
by __sturt__ on Jun 18, 2011 1:42 PM EDT
on MLB Daily Dish
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/expanding-mlb-playoffs-focus-on-fairness/#more-53038
As this Dave Cameron (FanGraphs) column explains, much of the realignment conversation is rooted in this idea that uneven divisions is inherently unfair.
I'd like to propose that, yes, that's true, but if that premise is a valid one--that the game is suffering from some inequities keeping some number of teams every year from competing for a championship, and further, that those inequities are solvable--then, why would we stop at realignment?
30 MLB Teams and the Dawn of the Perpetually Fantastic Season
by __sturt__ on Jun 17, 2011 2:03 AM EDT
on Beyond the Box Score
Link: COHERENT MLB RESTRUCTURING
(Sorry that the embed doesn't work on SBNation... link is provided instead.)
A Flash movie presentation from a Texas college professor that outlines a thoughtful, coherent plan for how the Commissioner of Baseball, MLB owners and players can resolve some of their most confounding issues: (1) realignment; (2) competitive integrity issues such as the big market/small market disparity and the specious dilemma of the designated hitter rule; and (3), how to raise and maintain high fan interest over the course of a 162-game regular season plus, what is currently, a post-season that pushes into cold November.
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Good reasons for getting past the divided leagues era
by __sturt__ on Mar 10, 2010 11:03 AM EST
on Beyond the Box Score
A 2005 USA Today poll of 1000 fans revealed that about 40% of fans prefer the traditional game, sans designated hitter, about 30% prefer the American League game with the DH, and the remaining 30% were content to leave things as they are.
It is the assertion of this article that, as fans, we have needlessly and somewhat unintelligently thrown up our hands in frustration, and have accepted the divide between the leagues over the designated hitter rule as the best alternative of three: accept the DH, reject the DH, or allow baseball to continue as-is.
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