baseball argument sept. 2010

So pat and I were discussing why if there is interleague play you can go years without seeing some teams because they apparently just take a bunch of acid and throw darts to determine who plays who.

We all know I am against interleague play because there is no way to make the schedule fair with it. So pat and i decided on how to rework the schedule to make it as fair as possible.

It starts with sending the Gaystros to the AL west to even out the divisions(and making a nice houston vs Dallas rivalry). Then we decided that you should play everyone in the other league for a 3 game series, alternating home and away each year. This will give you 15*3 games or 45 games.

162 - 45 = 117 league games

Now, for teams not in your division you should play two 3 game series(one home and one away) which gives us 10*6 or 60 games.

117 - 60 = 57 divisional games

57 / 4 = 14.25 games, or 14 games against 3 divisional foes and 15 against the other(obviously rotating).

I do not need to see the shitty pirates, cubs, and astros 17 times a year. I do not need to see the mostly crappy brewers and awesome reds 17 times a year. I would rather see the twins, rangers, angels, and rays every other year. This will also do a much better job of evening out the unfairness that is interleague play.