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Yes, agree. I think the risk with fewer teams per division is having a team with a losing record win a division. It happens in football every couple of seasons and it just seems ridiculous to reward a losing record with a playoff berth. I think Bowden's 8 division setup can easily be condensed to a 4 team setup by combining his divisions together. He has them set up well geographically. LAA, LAD, SD, SF, OAK, SEA, AZ, CO HOU, TX, KC, SL, CHC, CWS, MN, (MIL) That's an easy two divisions in the west to set up. I have Milwaukee in parentheses because they could move to the east divisions if an expansion team happens to be placed somewhere in the west. Maybe that means Colorado moves out of the Pacific time zone based division to the more Mountain/Central based one. NYY, NYM, BOS, PHI, WAS, BAL, PIT, (Charlotte) DET, CLE, CIN, TOR, TB, MIA, ATL, (Nashville) There's probably some give and take with the two eastern based divisions. Nashville seems like the top of the expansion picks right now. Charlotte seems to be have been up there for a while. I wouldn't think MLB would want the two expansion teams in the same division. Maybe there is some sincerity to returning to Montreal, but that's probably debatable. That might create a desire to place Toronto and Montreal together. Expansion seems like nothing more than pure speculation. MLB needs to wait for the Athletics and Rays to get their stadium situations figured out. I wouldn't be surprised to see geographical realignment, but it might be easier for MLB to implement that with expansion.

Sorry, better divisions would involve 8 team divisions.

I saw this on my phone 2 hours ago. What took you so long?

Terrible offense & defense by the teal horses tonight. I love Jarrett Allen.

I absolutely hate 4 team divisions. That said, these make sense.

Hopefully they’ve remembered bats this season.

Nobody can be our new Trayce Thompson. Nobody.

Breaking up the big 3 of Edwards, Thomas, and Durant?

My dad and brother and I went to this game. Mon & Dad splurged on it big time, we didn't have much money, and they got us tickets 2nd or 3rd row behind the plate. It was our (brother and I) 2nd trip to The Corner. Anyway, the drunks behind us yelled "Oh no, its HoJo" every time he was at the plate.

Detroit Pistons vs Cleveland Cavaliers

Plenty of those guys this spring.

I remember Boblo Island. Why wasn't it called Boblos Island?

Nice area. Was there in July. Saw some pics of the place during the polar vortex last week, fun stuff.

Some island in the middle of a Lake Ontario?

Boston Celtics vs Detroit Pistons

I forgot about “How It’s Made”. That was a good show, too.

Kind of makes one wonder where this will all be in 5, 10, 15 years. How many offerings will be purely a la carte on their own, how many will be bundled? Will sports teams be predominately on their own app/channel or will cities/regions package multiple sports, or will leagues take control of all of their teams? Old enough to remember when the local cable company had an "A" side and a "B" side that needed to be manually flipped. Don't remember why they went 2-30 on either side rather than go 2-60 with no A/B, its just what we had to deal with.

Its not going to end well for Patrick Ewing, is it?

One of those channels had a show called "How the States Got Their Shapes" which, well, the title kind of explains it. Another show was called "Aerial (State/Region)" which showed drone/airplane footage of different geographical parts of a state and touched on historical significance. I'm a map nerd and I love me some map porn, so these shows were great. Pretty sure they were before COVID, but, geez, between Marble Olympics and 2019 International Team Handball Championships, if these map shows were on then, I don't know if I'd have had time to see how my wife and kids were doing.

Until Irving stops it.

Bull poop. Iverson played.

Cord cutting is an issue. The blackout rules are an issue. Waning popularity is probably an issue, although to be fair MLB is trying to do something with the flow of game play. Whether or not what they are trying works is another thing. How much of an issue is viewing habits sports in general? Are people more into catching highlights after the game or maybe checking the score and seeing whether it’s worth their time to watch a game after some time has passed? I know a few season ago the NBA had considered some sort of subscription to broadcast 4th quarters of games. I don’t think it ever came to fruition, but would that have been a consideration 20 or even 10 years ago?

Sparky loved those veterans.

Good grief, 45 years. That’s incredible.

Granderson CF Higginson RF Fryman 3B Gibson LF Castellanos DH Clark 1B Avila C Infante SS Santiago 2B Bench of Inge (C) and Cuyler (OF) needs an IF. Any way to trade Simon back for Suarez and put him at SS, bump Infante to 2B and Santiago to the bench?