Richard Castle - contributing reporter
Coming to a stadium (hopefully) near you, it's time for a realignment in Cobbfather. Let's 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 us from talking about it. Here are our proposed divisions and projected winner for S60.
Northeast: Augusta, Montreal, Hartford, Boston
North: New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Dover
East: Chicago, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
Central: Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City, Fargo, Minnesota
Southeast: Atlanta, Charleston, Jacksonville, Huntington
South: Mexico City, Houston, Austin, New Orleans
West: Anaheim, Scottsdale, Tucson, Santa Fe
Northwest: Vancouver, Tacoma, Salem, Helena
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? The North gets interesting as all of those teams currently have a top 10 draft pick this season. From the last time we did this, Houston was in a division with Atlanta but now that's Huntington; what a division that is with Crain, Weiss, and WYW all vying for the AL MVP. We thought about creating a Gulf division of Mexico City, Houston, New Orleans but Jacksonville is on the wrong side of Florida for that to work. Would have been interesting realigning OKC, Austin, Charleston, with current AL powerhouse Atlanta.