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Dan Szymborski

11:23

Even if a good idea, the logistics would be an absolute nightmare

Phil

11:23

Most of my smart British friends seem to believe that relegation will eventually be eliminated from the Premier League. There's just too much money at stake. (But because of that money it's effectively impossible for a team like Man United to be relegated anyway--they'll just buy enough players to stay in the middle of the league if they're not good enough to win it.)

Kate Mitchell

11:23

The franchise model means relegation is simply impossible. Teams own the league, they'd never set up a system that could see their revenue obliterated. Look at clubs like Parma — some relegated teams never, ever recover.

The 6ix

11:23

Owners won’t tolerate the revenue hit if relegated.

Oddball Herrera

11:23

Who would pay to Own a team that could be relegated?

RTJ

11:23

Definitely several pros/cons to relegation system. Just trading one issue for a different one, in reality

Dan

11:23

People earlier talking about cribbing people's throws. I definitely threw like post yips chuck knoblack when I played second.

LFC Mike

11:24

Josie from jJosie and the Pussycats broke up the Banana Splits . A real Yoko Ono.

Kevin Z.

11:24

modern baseball, rookie of the year

TStats

11:24

My friend throws a demon pitch that I know call a slayer for Alex's sake. Puts his fingertips on the horseshoe and throws it like a fast ball, no spin with fastball velo (he hits 80 so maybe 75 on this demon pitch). Bottom falls right out of it, scares the crap out of me when we play catch

Alex Sonty

11:24

Sounds like it reigns in blood

David Laurila

11:24

I'm highly skeptical that relegation will go away in the UK. The sport is built upon it, throughout all levels.

Hugh Duffy

11:24

Relegation doesn't work here because it's not like you can just create a baseball team and work your way into MLB.

Dan Szymborski

11:24

Maybe I'll call them the Banana Split-Fingered Fastballs to see if it gets the network on the right track too

11:25

Also Puig Destroyer, Yo La Tengo

Portlandus

11:25

Split the season in half, records reset to 0-0 at the All-Star break. Winning a division in both halves earns a bye.

Alex Sonty

11:25

Win the 1st half split and just dog it the 2nd half?

David Laurila

11:25

The most “pure” baseball postseason was 8 (and then 10) teams in each league and the pennant winners meeting in the World Series. Not saying that was “better,” but it did take away a lot of the randomness.

Alex Sonty

11:26

Well, it rewarded the regular season.

Kate Mitchell

11:26

The Super League drama was the first attempt at doing away with traditional league structures. It won't be the last.

David Laurila

11:26

True, but the backlash was quick and severe.

Alex Sonty

11:26

With 30 teams, divisions make that sloppy, so four is fine.

Marco

11:27

Also, 2 leagues with 2 8 team divisions, 154 regular season, balanced sched (16 against in division teams, 7 outside), 4 wildcards per league playing a best of three, winners play division winners in best of 5, lcs and ws 7 game.

TStats

11:27

Alex, that was very very forced pun. What makes the pitch scarier is he throws a knuckleball too. And the fastball runs A LOT more than expected from his over arm delievery. With the MASSIVE 12-6 to boot

Oddball Herrera

11:27

I think all sports leagues should have a regular season belt that gets passed around WWE style if you beat the team that has it, so even in September Orioles fans can get a chuckle out of maybe stealing the belt from a good team

Alex Sonty

11:27

NBA does this

Shaquille Oatmeal

11:27

In Japan, the better team starts with a 1-0 lead in the series. Seems more fair than "home field advantage" to the team that won 30 more games than the 2nd wild card.

Dan Szymborski

11:28

It's trying, but it just can't get there.

egm

11:28

Maybe he’ll get lost in there

Field of Dreams. ⚾️ 🙏

Kevin Z.

11:29

6-4-3 Double Play would be a good band name

Jeremy

11:29

Guess we'll have to come up with our own baseball-themed band names.

Fire Ken Tremendous

11:29

Peter Buck's The Baseball Project

Dan Szymborski

11:29

I've had better luck generating baseball clickbait headlines

Shaquille Oatmeal

11:31

I like the WWE idea, but let me counter with a WCW idea. 3 baseball fields under a steel cage.

Phil

11:31

In the UK, the Premier League champion is actually the regular season champion. Then there are the various Cups, which are seeded by reg. season results but are considered separate competitions.

Guest

11:31

haha, the clickbait bot for football learned to just say Kaepernick as often as possible a long time ago

Dan Szymborski

11:31

I lose it every time I get to "Billy Hamilton is Eating Live Mice Right Now"

Alex Sonty

11:31

All these relegation ideas sound very NIT to me.

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