The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Bring back divisional rivalries and have only division winners in the playoffs.

 

I don't know if you're serious but I'm fully on board with all of this.

 

I like the geographic alignments. Check that. I love the geographic alignments.

 

I would flip the Padres and Mariners here if we're truly going for geography. It bugs me that teams in the AL West have to skip a time zone to play divisional games, and although they would still do so with a switch at least the Padres are closer geographically to the others in the group.

 

Nah flip A’s and Mariners. A’s going to Vegas makes that really easy.

Mariners have the worst travel of anyone, put them with the Giants and the So Cal teams. Then A’s with Arizona, Colorado and Texas.

 

Been a tough couple of days for my O's, but they avoid the sweep against the Dodgers, and with the Rangers sweeping the Rays, Baltimore is in first place by percentage points. Last time they were in first this late in a season was Aug. 12, 2016. Four-game set in Tampa looms. Let's go!

 

The first instance there, the '62 White Sox against Detroit? They could have had four SFs quite easily that inning, because the right fielder muffed two fly balls that went as sacrifice fly/error.

But Mike Hershberger had to go and hit into a double play ... in that same inning.

 

Sad thing is, I remember Mike Hershberger, and Jim Landis, and Russ Snyder, and Ken Berry, and Dave Nicholson, but probably couldn't name a current Sox outfielder. Robert?

 

Four-game set in Tampa (St. Petersburg, dammit!) looms with the Rays down a bunch of pitchers. This is the season, right here.

 

Keep AL and NL. The leagues are part of the history of the sport.