I hate the wild card game ....

Originally Posted by PolarBear

I'd be ok with that too. Just two divisions in each league and they play each other to see who goes to the WS. That would leave 7-8 teams in each division though.

We could always contract the league and get rid of the Rays and Marlins. That leaves 7 teams per division. Florida is for spring training anyway.

Since we're playing Commissioner.... I like this idea. Eliminate two of the spring training teams (Miami & Tampa Bay), and move the Arizona franchise to Havana, Cuba.

Reorganize the 28 teams into 2 leagues of 2 divisions with 7 teams each; the North, South, Central, and West:
North; Toronto, NY Mets, NY Yankees, Boston, Philadelphia Phillies, and Pittsburg Pirates.
South; Houston, Texas, Havana, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore, and Kansas City.
Central; Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Minnesota, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.
West; LA Angels, LA Dodgers, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Colorado, and Seattle.

Top two teams in each division advance to the playoffs, and are seeded according to record 1-4 to play two 7 game series; ALDS & ALCS. This would eliminate the most annoying of World Series, the Subway Series or Bay Area series etc....

[PolarBear]

I was on board until the very end. I'd rather see the division winners in the playoffs instead of the top two seeds.

Other than that I'm on board. Except, we absolutely MUST get rid of the designated hitter rule. I'd also get rid on interleague play.

Also, get rid of the Angles and replace them with a Tokyo team.

Now we got us a proper league.

[ooo-ribay]

Was extremely tough for a 97(?) win team to have to face Bummy last year and Arrieta this year. I would be bummed if I were a Buccos fan.

But, as someone said, it was an effective way to quickly get rid of the Yankees.