- Oct 31, 2012
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I've had it with MLB. Small market teams like my Reds are nothing more than a farm system for teams like the Yankees, who now have former Red's stars like Aroldis Chapman and Todd Frazier. Currently the good players they do have are rumored to be traded soon cuz they are "rebuilding" and are just too good to be Reds anymore. And here I thought that rebuilding meant holding on to your good players. Silly me.
So here is my proposal. The current system of dividing up divisions based upon location is inadequate and archaic. Ever since the last baseball strike the system has been out of skew. Now there is no limit as to how much a player can make and the smaller market teams simply cannot pay what the elite players require. So to address this problem, what should be done is dividing the divisions based upon payroll. That means all the high payroll teams will be in their own division and all the low payroll teams in their divisions.
That way the have not's can have a better shot at going to the playoffs, where a 3 or 4 game series can possibly go in favor of the underdog lower payroll teams.
I usually stop watching about June because the Reds are usually out of the race by then, and I'm sure less and less people even follow these losing small market teams at all anymore. This would revitalize MLB and give hope to those who have no current hope. Or we can just let baseball die.
So here is my proposal. The current system of dividing up divisions based upon location is inadequate and archaic. Ever since the last baseball strike the system has been out of skew. Now there is no limit as to how much a player can make and the smaller market teams simply cannot pay what the elite players require. So to address this problem, what should be done is dividing the divisions based upon payroll. That means all the high payroll teams will be in their own division and all the low payroll teams in their divisions.
That way the have not's can have a better shot at going to the playoffs, where a 3 or 4 game series can possibly go in favor of the underdog lower payroll teams.
I usually stop watching about June because the Reds are usually out of the race by then, and I'm sure less and less people even follow these losing small market teams at all anymore. This would revitalize MLB and give hope to those who have no current hope. Or we can just let baseball die.