re: Rob Manfred wants four team divisions, interested in expanding to 32 MLB teams

I addressed that. It shows the bottom 5 teams who declined. 4 are historically bad teams and 1 just came off a terrible tv contract (Astros)

And that's from April 2015, before the Astros great season which probably boosted their numbers.

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I addressed that. It shows the bottom 5 teams who declined. 4 are historically bad teams and 1 just came off a terrible tv contract (Astros)

And that's from April 2015, before the Astros great season which probably boosted their numbers.

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You can be in denial all you want but that is a unbiased legit article that is pretty much saying TH03's opinion on the matter is dog shite.

Expansion would be great.

Then either eliminate or greatly cut back on interleague play.

Ensure the NL doesn't get the DH.











Oh, and get off my lawn!

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Ensure the NL doesn't get the DH.

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over my dead fricking body

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ignorance is a bliss

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Ensure the NL doesn't get the DH.

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This should never happen... They should actually do away with it in the AL IMO.

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Based on our report just days ago, there was an average of 148 games aired during the regular season on regional sports networks. Not only has supply dramatically increased over the years, but over 90 percent of regular season games are aired on regional sports networks. This has turned baseball into a regional phenomenon. Baseball dominates prime time television at the cable and broadcast levels on these RSNs. Of the 30 teams in Major League Baseball, eleven—more than one-third of the league—had the highest-rated, most-watched local programming in prime time on both broadcast and cable. And overall, 17 MLB teams—over half the league—rank in the top 3 in local prime time (7p-11p) TV ratings on their respective RSNs. So, the question is, is baseball interest lowering nationally, or growing vastly at the regional level? As The AP story notes:

All of those numbers have made the regional sports networks more valuable to cable and satellite providers. And because each channel makes much of its revenue from fees those providers pay to carry it, the audience demographics don’t affect profits in the way they do for the traditional broadcast networks, which rely more on advertisers who want to reach younger viewers. In other words, baseball’s older viewership is less of a problem for regional sports networks.

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If an industry is “dying” it would show in the ledger. Last season MLB saw gross revenues of over $8 billion, and the expectation is it will reach $10 billion within a year or two. The reason for this goes back to attendance, and television. At the local level, teams are individually seeing lucrative broadcast deals, while the league sees national broadcast revenue from ESPN, TBS, and FOX at $1.5 billion annually. On top of that, MLB’s digital media company MLB Advanced Media expects to see revenues hit $1 billion annually in the very near future (see The Biggest Media Company You’ve Never Heard Of). That means MLB could soon catch the National Football League (it’s possible, but the NFL is attempting to target $25 billion by 2027), who saw approx. $10 billion in gross revenues last season. MLB is still far ahead of the NBA, who saw $5 billion in revenues for 2013, and light years ahead of the NHL who reportedly had record revenues of $3.7 billion.

Don’t be stupid, “dying sports” don’t earn that kind of revenue.

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peej when youre right, youre right

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I have hated the DH since the AL came up with it in 1973...... They used to have some pitchers that were pretty good hitters....

A lot of this will key around where the A's move if they don't get a new stadium

New idea:

AL East
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Toronto Blue Jays
Baltimore Orioles

AL North
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Minnesota Twins

AL West
Los Angeles Angels
Seattle Mariners
Oakland Athletics
Colorado Rockies

AL South
Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers
Tampa Bay Rays
Nashville/Charlotte/SA expansion team

NL East
New York Mets
Washington Nationals
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates

NL North
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis Cardinals
Cincinnati Reds
Milwaukee Brewers

NL West
San Francisco Giants
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
Arizona Diamondbacks

NL South
Houston Astros
Atlanta Braves
Miami Marlins
Nashville/Charlotte/SA expansion team


Things people will complain about:
1) Splitting up the Barves from the rest of the NL East. I think people would get over it. Now that the Barves aren't on TBS anymore, they just don't feel as important. And I really don't think people from Atlanta will care all too much, considering they stop supporting the team halfway through the summer anyway.

2) Moving the Rockies to the AL West. Like I said, no real history with the NL. Wouldn't be that big of a deal.

3) Moving the Astros back to the NL. Considering both leagues will have the DH soon, I think most Astros fans wouldn't care. They'd be pissed about the constant switching the league has made them do, but they'd get over it. Astros/Braves would turn into a nice little rivalry.

4) Why am I doing this by geography? You certainly don't have to, but I just figured that would make things easier.

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hey should actually do away with it in the AL IMO.

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disagree 100% it has given players such as David Ortiz, Paul Molitar, Dave Winnfield, Frank Thomas, among others a chance to continue to play and enhance their HoF careers.... Thomas played more games as a DH than he did as a 1B.