SI.com reports: A 14-person "special committee for on-field matters" formed four months ago by commissioner Bud Selig is discussing a radical form of "floating" realignment in which teams would not be fixed to a division, but free to change divisions from year-to-year based on geography, payroll and their plans to contend or not.
The concept gained strong support among committee members, many of whom believe there are non-economic avenues that should be explored to improve competitive balance.
Get the full story: SI.com
The concept gained strong support among committee members, many of whom believe there are non-economic avenues that should be explored to improve competitive balance.
Get the full story: SI.com
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OMG! Bud - or Pud as we call him in our family - just can't stop mucking up baseball for the worse with yet another of his lame ideas!
jack (the real one) A**
However, I wonder if the Cubs could get into a division they could win
You should do your research before you make yourself look stupid!
Go Cubs
This is possibly the most idiotic thing I've ever heard regarding any sports division realignment. I hope this committee wasn't paid to provide this proposed change.
Is there no end to Bud Selig's stupidity? Payroll and "plans not to contend" as determination for divisions?? This would even surpass having the midsummer exhibition game known as the All-Star Game determining which league gets home field for the World Series. Please, remove this brain-dead Reinsdorfian puppet at once.
Tony, you could follow the SI link.
However, I wonder if the Cubs could get into a division they could win, say keeping Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and adding the Washington Walgreens, Kansas City, and, if a 6th is needed, Cleveland.
That's just not enough of an explanation. Payroll and plans not to contend? Come on, give us more than that.