Baseball rant

[LukeA]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Ok, the American League has 14 teams, the National League 16. Just a few years ago Bud "I'm an idiot in charge of baseball" Selig moves his OWN team, the Milwaukee Brewers from the AL to the NL. What a f***ing idiot.

The whole "Milwaukee is a National League town" excuse doesn't hold water...they had the Braves for only 13 years (1953-1966), they snaked the Brewers away from Seattle (Pilots) in 1970 (with no team at all for four years)...hence, Milwaukee is an AMERICAN league town.

If the Brewers were still in the AL, the two leagues would be balanced at 15 each. (they should be in the AL Central, then move the KC Royals back into the AL West...all divisions in both leagues would have 5 teams)

As I recall, this was done to accomodate interleague play, since both leagues needed to have an even number of teams to make it happen in specific blocks of time during the season, rather than scattered across the whole schedule.

The fact that the Brewers/Selig were given the chance to move leagues definitely smacks as a conflict of interest, though.