Richard Castle - contributing reporter
Amongst the blog writers mixing up what state Salem actually plays in, rumors has it, Cobbfather executives are back to debating a major realignment. In it, they would eliminate the AL and NL, playing in one league with every team adopting the DH. Playoffs would be seeded similar to March Madness with the top 16 teams. First place in each division plus the next 8 teams best ranked teams. The plan might be rejected year after year, but that doesn't stop them from talking about it.
Northeast: Augusta, Boston, Hartford, Montreal
North: Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
East: Charleston, Dover, Huntington, Washington DC
Midwest: Columbus, Chicago, Minnesota, Milwaukee
Southeast: Atlanta, Houston, Jacksonville, New Orleans
South: Austin, Mexico City, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe
West: Anaheim, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, Toyko
Northwest: Helena, Salem, Tacoma, Vancouver
What do you think? Does this make your division tougher or easier to compete in given the current stance of all-in and rebuilding teams? I gotta say, seeing Houston and Atlanta in the same division would be pretty exciting. Teams in bold would be leading their division today.
Using today's records our playoff seeding would look like this:
(1) Atlanta v (16) Jacksonville (4th team of that division to make the playoffs)
(8) Salt Lake City v (9) Houston
(4) Columbus v (13) Chicago
(5) Hartford v (12) Helena
On the other side it'd be:
(2) Buffalo v (15) Santa Fe
(7) Oklahoma City (10) Philadelphia
(3) Huntington v (14) New Orleans
(6) Salem v (11) Minnesota