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  • dkgojackets
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    • Mar 2005
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    #31
    Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

    Originally posted by TheGamingChef
    So what is Selig the commissioner of?

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    • TheGamingChef
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      • Jun 2006
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      #32
      Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

      Originally posted by dkgojackets
      lol, having 162 games makes playing the exact same schedule less important than all the other sports. Do you see why?
      My point is that there's no reason not to have every team in each division play the same schedule when there's 162 games. If there's 16 games, it might be too difficult to do.

      Let me solve this right now. In the NL East (5 teams in division, 11 teams out of division), each team could face each divisional rival 24 times (about seven series), and each out-of-division team 6 times (about two series).

      It's just so simple to make a fair league... too bad $$$ is the only thing standing in the way

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      • dkgojackets
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        • Mar 2005
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        #33
        Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

        Originally posted by TheGamingChef
        It's just so simple to make a fair league... too bad $$$ is the only thing standing in the way
        And pleasing the fans. You seem like the guy who would have been pissed when they installed lights at Wrigley.

        It would also be most fair to build fifteen identical stadiums in the middle of kansas and have all the games take place at the exact same time. Do you think this is a good idea? Is money the only thing stopping MLB form doing it?

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        • TheGamingChef
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          #34
          Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

          Originally posted by dkgojackets
          So what is Selig the commissioner of?
          I'll try to explain how I see MLB as best as I can but bear with me.

          Major League Baseball is a "big tent" of sorts for the two premiere baseball leagues in the world. Consider this extremely lame example: If McDonald's and Burger King were both leagues in Major League Fast Food. They could have the same commissioner, same draft (for workers), same pretty much everything, but there's two big differences: They aren't the same league, and they have different menus (rules).

          Bud Selis is the commissioner of both the American League and the National League as a whole when he is in charge of the "big tent" called Major League Baseball. It's not the same as the NFL or NBA.

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          • dkgojackets
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            • Mar 2005
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            #35
            Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

            Originally posted by TheGamingChef
            Then I guess you don't understand the MLB. Let me put it this way. The NFL is a league (hence the "L") with two conferences.
            ROFL I just saw this when rereading this thread. WTF do you think the "L" in MLB is?

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            • TheGamingChef
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              • Jun 2006
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              #36
              Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

              Originally posted by dkgojackets
              And pleasing the fans. You seem like the guy who would have been pissed when they installed lights at Wrigley.
              Just because some guy in Queens wants to see the Mets play the Yankees every year doesn't mean interleague is good for baseball.

              I couldn't care less about that dump Wrigley either

              Originally posted by dkgojackets
              It would also be most fair to build fifteen identical stadiums in the middle of kansas and have all the games take place at the exact same time. Do you think this is a good idea?
              That idea is completely impractical. Can you show me how any idea I've proposed has been impractical in any way?

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              • TheGamingChef
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                • Jun 2006
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                #37
                Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                Originally posted by dkgojackets
                ROFL I just saw this when rereading this thread. WTF do you think the "L" in MLB is?
                Major League Baseball is a tent encompassing two separate leagues, how many times do I have to point this out?

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                • dkgojackets
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                  • Mar 2005
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                  #38
                  Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                  Originally posted by TheGamingChef
                  Just because some guy in Queens wants to see the Mets play the Yankees every year doesn't mean interleague is good for baseball


                  Since its inception in 1997, Interleague Play has drawn 13.1 percent more fans than intraleague games.

                  Originally posted by TheGamingChef
                  That idea is completely impractical. Can you show me how any idea I've proposed has been impractical in any way?
                  How is it impractical? It would make the league more fair! Isn't that what you want? You dont seem to care about the fans at all. Since ideas that make money are ruining the league in your opinion, then ideas that lose money must be great!

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                  • TheGamingChef
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                    #39
                    Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                    Originally posted by dkgojackets
                    How is it impractical?
                    Tell me how one of my ideas is impractical. Unless you truly believe that fifteen stadiums in Kansas is a good idea.



                    Originally posted by dkgojackets
                    You dont seem to care about the fans at all. Since ideas that make money are ruining the league in your opinion, then ideas that lose money must be great!
                    I care about the game. I want to see a fair league with fair competition, that allows the best teams to make the playoffs and allows each league to send its best team to the World Series. Apparently you care about getting to watch the White Sox play the Cubs more than that.

                    Making money isn't necessarily bad of course, but it's not automatically good either.

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                    • pfunk880
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                      • Jul 2004
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                      #40
                      Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                      Originally posted by TheGamingChef
                      Making money isn't necessarily bad of course, but it's not automatically good either.
                      You know what is bad? Not making money.

                      A so-called "fair" league isn't so great if nobody wants to watch it.
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                      • dkgojackets
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                        • Mar 2005
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                        #41
                        Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                        Originally posted by TheGamingChef
                        I care about the game. I want to see a fair league with fair competition, that allows the best teams to make the playoffs and allows each league to send its best team to the World Series. Apparently you care about getting to watch the White Sox play the Cubs more than that.

                        Making money isn't necessarily bad of course, but it's not automatically good either.
                        You seem to have completely ignored the article that states interleague play attendance is over 13 percent higher on average than intraleague play, and was 15.4 percent higher least season. It's obvious that the fans like this.

                        And your impractical idea was having just the Bears play an AFL team. Tell me how you can have each team in the NFL play 16 games when one and only one plays an AFL team for one. That's actually mathematically impossible, whereas it isn't hard to find space in Kansas to build 15 baseball fields. You don't need room for bleachers or parking, sometimes fans can impact the game and that makes it unfair for all teams. Gotta get rid of that.

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                        • Chaos81
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                          • Mar 2004
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                          #42
                          Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                          Originally posted by pfunk880
                          A so-called "fair" league isn't so great if nobody wants to watch it.
                          Funny part about all this, the leagues still aren't "fair" even if you take interleague play out of the equation.

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                          • dkgojackets
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                            #43
                            Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                            Originally posted by Chaos81
                            Funny part about all this, the leagues still aren't "fair" even if you take interleague play out of the equation.
                            The only "fair" leagues out there are double round-robin soccer leagues. As long as teams with different schedules compete for the same spot, it isn't "fair."

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                            • Chaos81
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                              #44
                              Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                              Originally posted by dkgojackets
                              The only "fair" leagues out there are double round-robin soccer leagues. As long as teams with different schedules compete for the same spot, it isn't "fair."
                              That was my point.

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                              • dkgojackets
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                                • Mar 2005
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                                #45
                                Re: Do you have any respect for any pro league commish?

                                Originally posted by Chaos81
                                That was my point.

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