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Friday, June 8, 2012
Constitutional amendments for team sports.
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Seems pretty fundamental. Increasingly in recent decades the integrity of Major Baseball League (MBL) games under commissioner Allen Huber "Bud" Selig has been undermined by many policies that he originated or let become worse.
The MBL plays 162 regular season games. The NBA 82. The NFL 16. The more games played, the more important that division rivals play most if not all of those games within the division. Otherwise, what's the point of divisions? They would be merely an arbitrary dividing of teams, which would reduce fairness and integrity, much more than the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED), the bane of Commissioner Selig, lead steroid zealot.
You might say that this objective in the MBL is not realistic given the number of teams in division is now set at five. Tomorrow's post will deal with constitutional amendment 8: Divisions must have at least six teams.
However it's done 66% seems a reasonable MINIMUM. 100% would be ideal. 66% of 162 is 107. With six teams in division there are five opponents. Twenty games against each would be 100. So the answer is 22. What, you say, that's way too many? From 1903 through 1960 the old American and National Leagues played 22 games against each of seven opponents in a 154 game schedule. The first place teams would then play in the old World Series. This was before modern expansion, which led to the first divisions in 1969 and the start of a tournament format, which was formalized in 1994 when the number of divisions was increased and culminated with the 1999 merger of the two leagues into one, which I choose the call the MBL to emphasize the merger.
That merger has so far escaped the recognition of main stream media and even of the MBL commissioner. Actually it's escaped just about everyone. Does any other baseball blogger ever mention the fact that it's one league? Do the hot shot baseball websites, which think they're so cool?
The MBL plays 162 regular season games. The NBA 82. The NFL 16. The more games played, the more important that division rivals play most if not all of those games within the division. Otherwise, what's the point of divisions? They would be merely an arbitrary dividing of teams, which would reduce fairness and integrity, much more than the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED), the bane of Commissioner Selig, lead steroid zealot.
You might say that this objective in the MBL is not realistic given the number of teams in division is now set at five. Tomorrow's post will deal with constitutional amendment 8: Divisions must have at least six teams.
However it's done 66% seems a reasonable MINIMUM. 100% would be ideal. 66% of 162 is 107. With six teams in division there are five opponents. Twenty games against each would be 100. So the answer is 22. What, you say, that's way too many? From 1903 through 1960 the old American and National Leagues played 22 games against each of seven opponents in a 154 game schedule. The first place teams would then play in the old World Series. This was before modern expansion, which led to the first divisions in 1969 and the start of a tournament format, which was formalized in 1994 when the number of divisions was increased and culminated with the 1999 merger of the two leagues into one, which I choose the call the MBL to emphasize the merger.
That merger has so far escaped the recognition of main stream media and even of the MBL commissioner. Actually it's escaped just about everyone. Does any other baseball blogger ever mention the fact that it's one league? Do the hot shot baseball websites, which think they're so cool?
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