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  1. Squirrel
    The Carolinas have quite a few minor league teams with Triple A teams in both Charlotte and Durham.
  2. Squirrel
    Well, sure, right now. Who knows when this would happen even if it would. And I wouldn't want to be in a division with the Yankees or Red Sox, either; especially the Yankees since we can never seem to get past them.
  3. Squirrel
    While I think the 4-team divisions and keeping the NL/AL somewhat intact is the better model by far, how would you make the 8-team divisions, and not keeping the NL/AL in tact? (I just can't come up with 8-team divisions, keeping travel in mind, that keeps the AL/NL in tact.) I think what was proposed was just ... wrong, especially since they are trying to consider travel costs. MN might be further north, but it's also further west than a lot of other 'northern' teams. It just doesn't make sense to have Twins in the same division with the eastern most teams. Either Chicago team would make more sense than that, imo, both still are considered northern, too. NE division: Boston, Montreal, New York Yankees and Mets, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Chi Sox SE division: Baltimore, DC, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. (If Montreal is not an expansion team, and they added one somewhere in the broader SE quarter of the U.S., I'd move Pittsburgh to the NE in place of Montreal, and add the expansion team to the SE. Or, as Ash suggested a 3rd NY team, that would replace Montreal.) Central division: Milwaukee, Chi Cubs, Minnesota, St. Louis, KC, Houston, Rangers, Colorado West: Seattle, Portland, San Fran, Oakland, Anaheim, LA, SD, Phoenix No matter how you would do it, it would turn baseball upside down. I just think this whole 'expansion and then what' speculation would kill the sport if followed through on.
  4. Squirrel
    Heh, well ... for this exercise, it's actually more difficult to place Pittsburgh. I think it would be better to add a team in the south somewhere, and not Montreal. There are already a large clump of teams in the broader NE sector.
  5. Squirrel
    This is nearly identical to what I suggested in post 8, except I'd put Washington in the south, not Pittsburgh, since Washington is, well, further south. And I called the North division the Midwest division, as I thought that suited better. But what the divisions are called matters not. But I think ScottyB in post 5 got the alignments right by moving Tampa into the NL and Colorado into the AL.
  6. Squirrel
    The minute we started interleague play baseball has been moving towards this. I’m assuming DH for all and doing away with the National and American Leagues. I don’t like it. I say add a team to each league, have 4 divisions of 4 teams and do away with interleague play and return to how it was and quit messing with it. And align teams to keep them in the leagues they are in already but create the extra division. NL: East - Mets, Nats, Phillies, Pirates South - Braves, Reds, Marlins, expansion team tbd (not Montreal) Midwest - Cubs, Brewers, Cards, Rockies West - DBacks, Dodgers, Giants, Padres If Montreal is the team in the mix, put them in the East Division and move the Nats to the South Division. AL: East - Boston, NY, Orioles, Toronto South - Tampa, Astros, Rangers, KC Midwest - Cleveland, Detroit, ChiSox, Twins West - Seattle, A’s, Angels, expansion team tbd (assuming Portland) As for playoffs not sure how I’d work it. No WC game. Four division winners play a best of 5, then best of 7 for league championship, then onto WS. If the goal is to expand the playoffs then the top 2 of each division play a best of 3 series.
  7. Squirrel
    Well, or not. If there isn't a market for him, what's to motivate the team to offer him what he may want or even anything that equals what other 2nd basemen have gotten? Or by 'promising sign' you meant that we can re-sign Dozier to a team-friendly extension without worry that he will say no and resign from his position for FA when the time comes?
  8. Squirrel
    I stand by my opinion as you stand by yours.
  9. Squirrel
    Concur. But as you said, can't really argue it, either. I couldn't really argue any choice in this category of the main contenders. It all depends on how you weight everything. And while no one category is more important than the other, imo, I still put a higher weight on defense, and this year I'd still say Buxton or Mauer were more valuable overall.
  10. Squirrel
    Now that the Molitor news is official, please continue the after-the-fact conversation here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/27763-article-its-official-twinsmolitor-agree-to-three-year-deal/ Thanks.
  11. Squirrel
    Pikler is the outfield instructor. How much of an influence he's had on this specifically, don't know.
  12. Squirrel
    I'm not a Molitor fan but I'd have been okay one way or the othe, but the entire coaching staff? Really? Hmmm.
  13. Squirrel
    Wel, **** ,,. Fine time to tune in ... I'm not watching
  14. Squirrel
    Lol ... I'm home now. And I can barely stand to watch!
  15. Squirrel
    ****!!!!! I missed a home run! Damn ****ing late rehearsals!
  16. Squirrel
    OkAy don't give anything away until I'm home!
  17. Squirrel
    On the bus toward home ...
  18. Squirrel
    See? We need a barf emoji, Brick ... er, I mean Brock! Damn auto correct!
  19. Squirrel
    I'm actually at work until 7 ...
  20. Squirrel
    We'd let you know all about that if you had a barf emoji to choose from.
  21. Squirrel
    Heh, nope. I think my autocorrect thinks ick is a valid choice while ish is not
  22. Squirrel
    And lineups are up ... check the article or op ...
  23. Squirrel
    Ish or Ick Van, you check this one off the list, too. And just for an aside ... my autocorrect kept wanting to change 'ish' to 'Ash.' Hmmm ....
  24. Squirrel
    Every day there's a Twins game there's a game Thread!
  25. Squirrel
    Can change after each series.
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