MLB 2017: The Yankees are dead, Yankees burn in hell

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I liked the two-division format.

 

That wouldn't happen, it would be the 4 division winners plus at least 1 maybe 2 wild card teams.

 

^ How so? With 4 divisions, there'd be no need for wild cards, because all four division leaders would just go straight to the division series.

 

^ It's something they had to invent in 1995 because there were an odd number of divisions in both leagues. With a four-division setup, it's superfluous.

 

But now, it means a greater number of important games and therefore more revenue, both for the teams and TV.

Mo money means the wild-card games are here to stay.

 

I'm pretty damn sure Tim knows why the wild-card system exists.

 

^ Hey, he asked, I answered.

 

Which is why I advocate just picking the top four teams regardless of division alignment.

 

Why not?

 

Either your team is the best in their division, or they're not. If they are, then they deserve to be the division leader. If another team is better than yours, then they deserve to win. What's left to argue about? You want your team to win, then let THEM have the "balls-out, monstrous year".

 

As is everything else in MLB, including the league assignments. Twenty years ago, the Astros and Brewers were still in the NL and AL, respectively. The Brewers moved to accommodate the '98 expansion after the Royals refused, and the Astros moved in '13 so that each league would have the same number of teams. Beyond that, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to why teams ended up in their respective leagues.

 

Actually it was so the commish could manufacture a rivalry with the Rangers. (And because Selig, being a former Brewers owner, would never have let them move back to the AL.)

 

Angel Hernandez Sues MLB for Discrimination

Despite competition from Joe West, CB Bucknor, Eric Cooper, Dan Iassogna, and Hunter Wendelstadt, Hernandez has been the absolute worst umpire in baseball for more than twenty years. He should be grateful he still has a job and stop whining about a promotion he doesn't deserve.

 

Not a chance, MLB is at 10 post season teams now, they won't go backwards, larger playoffs is where it's at.

 

"Downtown goes Frazier!"

Edit: As ludicrous as it is that the Rangers are looking for a new ballpark so soon, it looks like Globe Life Park might not be demolished after all.

 

Frazier just went downtown AGAIN. Walk-off homer!