Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 20, 2003
Bud Screed

I don't know how I missed this excellent Rob Neyer take down of Bud Selig, but here it is.

I do disagree with Rob on one thing, however:


"... I feel very comfortable with where we are," Selig recently told Sean McAdam. "The season is a journey. The NFL weights its schedule, and ours is almost identical."

Yes, the season is a journey. And for many years, it was a long journey that did a pretty fair job of rewarding the best teams at the end of the journey. But beginning with the introduction of divisional play in 1969, and then accelerating rapidly with the introduction of interleague play, wild cards, and teams essentially making their own schedules in the late 1990s, baseball has substantially changed the nature of the journey, with luck playing a bigger part than ever before in who's rewarded.

But it's OK, because that's how the NFL does things.


In this post, I suggest a weighted schedule as a way reducing introducing parity, so you don't have the Tigers losing 110 games. It's another thing, like revenue sharing, that might help kick start some poor franchises and let them bring fans back.

But it's not what I really want. What I want is the majors to go back to 24 teams, and instead of contracting teams, create a super minor league. I detail that proposal here.


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