That's silly. If they went from 1 interleague game a year out of 1000 to 3, it would be a 300% increase. That wouldn't be substantial. Switching 2 out of 162 games is not noticable, and certainly is not something that would impact why the NL/AL rule was put in place (whatever the reason may have been). No one is going to say "well, at 18 interleague games, let's put in a rule where NL teams can claim an NL player first. But at 20? No way!"
No, but I do consider it a substantial increase. More importantly, keeping the leagues separate has been pointless ever since they started interleague.
It isn't silly. We aren't talking about 1 game. We were talking about 252, which is nearly 10% of games. If I talked about 10 Billion, and then added a 100 thousand it wouldn't be significant. Do you see how silly your argument is by pulling out random numbers?
So, you agree its a silly rule... mainly because there really isn't much of a reason to treat the leagues as separate anymore. And the overall increase in interleague games and different opponents has been noticeable/substantial... to the point that nobody makes any sort of big deal about "interleague" matchups anymore. 252 games increased to 300 games is a significant increase... sure, if you divide it down to an increase per team it doesn't "seem" that bad, but that's the good thing about set rules for defining what is statically significant and what isn't. The way I see it, they're now just normal games... there's nothing special about them... and since they have to occur year-round, there's going to be pressure applied by the MLBPA to adopt universal rules for both leagues (whether it be the waiver wire stuff, or the DH, or WS home field advantage, etc.). Hell, if having an "uneven" number of teams per each league was such a "nightmare" for the league... I wonder how the NL teams feel when they're at a proven competitive disadvantage (roster-construction wise) in 12% of their games (and judging from interleague records every year, where the AL has consistently dominated, I'd say its proven).
It's just a hard thing to do considering most every player will be placed on waivers this month. When a player such as Turner is DFA'd then a discussion can take place since it is more public than the typical August waivers.
All of this has its root on discussing the stupidity of the waiver wire rule. If we are going to have thread police for every related "tangent" (but still relevant to the discussion), its going to be awfully quiet in this section of the bbs.
Agreed, agreed, and agreed. I'm sure it'll never happen, but the DH is awful, just awful. Players playing half the game. Sissy crap. Chicken****.
Exactly. Meaning there's now nothing special about MLB's setup. It *used* to be *unique*. Now, it's just the NBA schedule only a twice as long and with fewer tattoos.
