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  1. Squirrel
    I think the Carolinas (maybe even just North?) have a lot of minor league teams around. Both Charlotte and Durham have AAA teams.
  2. Squirrel
    I wonder if he’ll file for FA or announce his retirement.
  3. Squirrel
    I think there was a Braves-Yankees WS (or two) I skipped. Nothing to root for with either team. And I skipped the 2nd BoSox-Cards World Series a few years back ... been there, done that, bo-ring. And yes, if this ends up being a Dodgers-Yankees mashup this year? Yeah, no thanks.
  4. Squirrel
    Exactly. That’s why I think the article is kind of ... not well thought out and why everyone is proposing their own realignment. And I even mentioned that in previous posts. I even went so far as to compare actual mileage with some to try and put the best workable solution to that.
  5. Squirrel
    One point the article made was that the lost revenue in going to 156 games would be made up in lower travel costs because of realignment. Thats why everyone is emphasizing locations as they are. It’s not just about being viable in community and financial support, but is also viable in location.
  6. Squirrel
    **** ... the Yankees won. Booooooo!
  7. Squirrel
    The Carolinas have quite a few minor league teams with Triple A teams in both Charlotte and Durham.
  8. Squirrel
    Uh ....
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Squirrel
    Please redirect conversation here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/27813-article-expansion-could-alter-mlbs-landscape/?do=findComment&comment=691447
  15. Squirrel
    Don't say that in front of North or GCTF!
  16. Squirrel
    Yeah, especially saying that it would cut down costs due to less travel ... and I'm just thinking, 'Yeah, not for the Twins in that scenario.' I'd have to sit down somewhere with a map and paper and figure it out, but I think I could come up with something better given what they think they'd be accomplishing.
  17. Squirrel
    Not sure what I think about this ... definitely don't like the proposed realignment but I'm okay with eliminating the two leagues. Of course this is all speculative, but I still think 'Ugh!' http://www.baseballamerica.com/columnists/expansion-trigger-realignment-longer-postseason/?utm_content=buffer74167&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#UpQ1BQG0e7oGpLD8.97
  18. Squirrel
    I thought I'd get this going now (and pin it), even though we still have a few weeks to go. Please use this thread to track MLB NON-TWINS transactions. If you want to have a more in-depth discussion on a particular transaction, or major news, please start a separate thread. If you just want to make a few comments here there on the myriad of non-Twins MLB transactions, do so here. And as always, since this is the 'other baseball' forum, try to keep the Twins talk to the Twins talk forum. Difficult to do on a Twins site, and there will be no admonishment if it strays to that (wish the Twins had done this or glad they didn't do that), but try to keep focus on the 'other.' Go!
  19. Squirrel
    It’s baaaaaaack ...
  20. Squirrel
    So would I. We must be related or something.
  21. Squirrel
    Even if it’s the White Sox?
  22. Squirrel
    One of the guys at work asked why/how I’d become such an Astros fan. I told him pretty much this.
  23. Squirrel
    My second favorite team is the Blackhawks.
  24. 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?
  25. Squirrel
    They should but won't by their voters. I predict that the House won't change much in the mid-terms.
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