COVID-19 Season and MLB Realignment. Stros and Dodgers in Same Division

Take no prisoners.

 

1980 was several generations ago lol I mean I guess cuz I didn't live thru it, I was born in '94 but 40 years ain't exactly like saying 2 weeks ago

 

Right!!!! This will be perfect for the Astros. They wouldn’t have to deal with the hat during the game... I don’t care. EVERY non-gentleman sport is rigged at some level... and/or can be corruptible. Refs, players, etc... everyone needs an edge. The more money you got the more you can get alway with.

 

Should be set up for just one road trip to each city within the divisional play. If that means a 5 or 6 game series then so be it. A 5 game series would be great since you'd see each pitcher in a rotation for each series. Makes things more even when you're only playing a set amount of teams.

 

I’d watch the games. It would be ****ing weird as ****, but I’d watch them.

 

It was one generation ago (1.3, if you're being technical). That's ages ago for you, maybe, but everyone doesn't share your post-Nolan-Ryan point of view. For those of us who can vaguely remember seeing Don Wilson and JR Richard in uniform, and hearing our folks talk about Eddie Matthews's 500th, 1980 wasn't so long ago.

 

Unless your over 50 and were a dedicated baseball fan back in the day, there isnt anything to revive. It would be strange at first, but I could get onboard seeing the Dodgers often. Not great with the idea of doing this for one shortened season, getting used to who your new rivals are, only to have it all change again the next year as we revert back to our customary divisions.

 

I wouldn't mind if this became the norm...at least until 2 more teams get added. As a long-time Astros fan, the sanctity of the leagues went out the window when they forced us to move to the AL.

Might as well make it one league, take 3 division winners and then next 3 out of each division and seed them all. Bottom 8 teams by record have to face each other in a "wild-card" 3 game series round winners go on to play the other 4 (3 division winners and top non-division winner).

 

Not quite 50, and I remember 80 and 81 well. I hated the Dodgers all the way through the early 90s. Steve Sax was such a prick.

 

Geez you gotta be like 70 by now to remember 1980 "very well" jajajaja

Like somebody else stated there's nothing to "revive", but if for one year it'd be neat to bash their heads in for all the crap they're throwing at us.

 

Your opinion is duly noted. Just because you were in diapers fifteen years after something was relevant doesn't mean it didn't happen and couldn't be revived. The world didn't begin in 1994.

 

You were what, 8 or 9 years old? OK, I have a few strong memories from that age. Not in sports though. My point is, not many do have strong memories of that era specifically in a Dodgers / Astros context. It would be like starting anew for most, and that is fine.

 

Gavin Lux is related to Darla McGuckian.

 

Hell, I started going to the games with my father as soon as the team started playing in Houston at the temporary stadium, now down in Vera Cruz, the last I heard. We struggled for so many years, but we had some great players while we were doing it. Great pitching. Excellent players here and there. Some, like Joe Morgan, having the most success after they left, but we got to watch them in Houston first. The team could never quite get is together. It was fun, though.

 

what if they had records of how loud each teams home games were and pumped in that level of noise at games this year. i.e how loud was the crowd in their 1st home game and match that level for this years 1st home game so on and so forth

 

Of course it's fine; but for some of us it's a revival, which is fine.

 

You’re not wrong, but TRUST me when I tell you it sometimes feels like 2 weeks. You’ll find that out soon enough though!

 

And I just don’t see us getting back to normal even in 2021 to be totally honest