Fruit Basket Upset!
Ideally there would be 32 teams divided equally between the four American time zones. We ain’t got that so here’s an alternative to shoot down on Day One of the Great Void…
Three 10-team leagues; left, center & right, constituted as follows:
LEFT = Angels, Dodgers, A’s, Giants, Padres, D’backs, Rockies, Rangers, ‘Stros & M’s
CENTER = Cubs, Sox, Royals, Cards, Twins, Reds, Tribe, Tigers, Brewers & Jays
RIGHT = Yanks, Bosox, Mets, Phils, Bucs, O’s, Nats, Braves, Rays, Marlins…
Every team plays the nine others in its league 18 times each…
Best record in each league + next seven best winning pct.’s regardless of league to post-season
The top six rest while 7/10 & 8/9 meet in best of 3 series; then seed 1 thru 8 according to regular season records…
Quarterfinal series = best of 5; semi’s & WS = best of 7…
The Mostly Stars game? Who cares? Not the players. DH? Outta here! Tradition/history? See Cooperstown…
I think, theoretically, any two teams could potentially match up in the WS; an intriguing possibility even though we know that, practically speaking, there’s one team that is doomed to never make another appearance.
Sorry, Rob, no more regularly scheduled west coast trips for the Cubs, but everybody saves on travel costs and makes America just that much less dependent on foreign oil.
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