No. North America (USA and Canada) is an East <> West continent. Current divisions are split in threes geographically by sections of the US. Most travel within divisions is north<>south - a shorter distance than east<>west.
Your realignment forces intra-division teams in San Francisco and Miami, Tampa Bay and San Diego, New York and Seattle (!!!?), Oakland and Cincinnati. Too much travel and fans in the Eastern time zone are penalized when their favorite team has to play in the Pacific time zone - games start at 10:00 pm ET.
Oakland and San Francisco are 12 miles apart, you have them in two different divisions.
Only people in favor would be the chartered jet services used by MLB teams.
el Águila
2013-08-06 19:14:35 UTC
Absolutely not.
Why do people keep proposing ridiculous MLB realignments?
hbsizzwell
2013-08-06 18:20:37 UTC
Since when are all the California teams in the "South"? Why don't you organize them as "East", "Central", and "West". Then, strong divisional rivals would play most their games in the same time zones, and not with 3-hour differences.
2013-08-06 18:50:57 UTC
Theoretically any arrangement of 6 divisions with 5 teams each can work, but I don't like the groups you've proposed.
Several divisions have one west coast team grouped with teams from the East Coast. Having teams that are 3000+ miles apart in the same division simply doesn't make sense. It drastically increases the amount of travel and reduces the division rivalry.
2013-08-06 18:43:46 UTC
I find some issues with this. For example, why would they put the phillies and the mariners in thr same division, they're too far apart. With this realignment, there's just too many teams that have to travel an extremly far distance just for a divisional series.
jigokusabre
2013-08-06 18:29:32 UTC
No.
The reason that sports divide their divisions along east / west lines is so they can air more of their games in the same time zone as their home fans. By having the Marlins and the Giants in the same "South" division (I'm not even going to ask how that's the case), you have a ton of West Coast fans missing games that start at 10 AM or 12 PM, and the Marlins fans having to try and watch games that end at 1 or 2 AM.
Also, random league assignments (Pirates in the AL, Athletics in the NL, etc) would be unacceptable.
Frizzer
2013-08-06 18:27:02 UTC
I don't understand your reasoning for anything above and certainly don't understand why you believe this is better than what we have now.
Vin Scully
2013-08-06 18:26:51 UTC
No, and I wouldn't like it.
New Yorker!
2013-08-06 21:59:50 UTC
The **** are the Mariners doing in the Phillies and Mets division? They're 3 timezones apart.
And the **** with North, and South divisions?
Bad.
Fozzy
2013-08-06 15:29:49 UTC
It sucks.
Try realigning the NBA, NFL or NBA instead.
Captin_Crunch
2013-08-06 20:12:14 UTC
No. But imagine if that NL North was a real division. Wow, that would be a terrible division. And the Astros and the Marlins in the same division?
2013-08-06 18:15:27 UTC
I guess it could be. Not a good chance, though.
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