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Here is a list of the years that the Yankees won the World Series, as well as who was President of the United States at the time: Of their 27 World Championships, only 7 of them occurred while a Republican resided in the White House, and the last time it happened was way back in 1958! The Yankees defeated the MILWAUKEE Braves....1958 was the first year that we had the Dodgers & Giants in California, just to put it into more proper perspective. The Yankees won one pennant in 1976 when Ford was in office, but they got swept by Cincinnati's Big Red Machine. They won another pennant with Reagan as President in 1981, but lost that World Series 4 games to 2 to the Los Angeles Dodgers, after going up 2 games to 0 on LA no less. From '82 - '93 the Yankees were dreck and did nothing. I just found it quite curious about this "drought" of sorts the Yankees have with regard to this. So for this reason alone, Yankee fans may be happy with the current President. Time and history will tell...

NFL had AFL & NFL remained separate Accounting for the current location of all 32 NFL teams, and assuming that the 1970 merger kept the original 16 NFL teams separate from the 10 AFL teams, putting all the teams that joined the NFL after 1975 into the AFL: AFL EAST: Baltimore Ravens (expansion 1996) Buffalo Bills (Original AFL) New England Patriots (Original AFL) New York Jets (Original AFL) AFC CENTRAL: Carolina Panthers (expansion 1995) Cincinnati Bengals (Original AFL) Kansas City Chiefs (Original AFL) Tennessee Titans (Original AFL) AFL SOUTH: Houston Texans (expansion 2002) Jacksonville Jaguars (expansion 1995) Miami Dolphins (Original AFL) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (expansion 1976) AFL WEST: Denver Broncos (Original AFL) Las Vegas Raiders (Original AFL) Los Angeles Chargers (Original AFL) Seattle Seahawks (expansion 1976) NFL EAST: New York Giants Philadelphia Eagles Pittsburgh Steelers Washington No Names NFL CENTRAL: Chicago Bears Cleveland Browns Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers NFL SOUTH: Atlanta Falcons Dallas Cowboys Indianapolis Colts New Orleans Saints NFL WEST: Arizona Cardinals Los Angeles Rams Minnesota VIkings San Francisco 49ers

32 team MLB: 16 teams in each league. 4 teams into 4 divisions. Only division winners advance to the post season. In each league, the Atlantic & Central division champions would play a best 3 out of 5 Division Series, the winner would become Eastern Conference Champions. And the Pacific & Midwest champs would square off also in a best 3 out of 5 to become Western Conference Champions. Then the East vs West champs would play in the LCS in a best of 7. This brings back the East/West that was used from 1969 - 1993. No interleague play. Divisional games would be 22 (66 total) Teams in the other division in your conference would be 12 (48 total) 6 games each against each of the other 8 teams in the other conference (48 total) 162 game season. The Houston Astros would return to the National League. The Milwaukee Brewers would return to the American League. The Arizona Diamondbacks would move from the NL West to the AL West. Two expansion teams both in the NL, the return of the Montreal Expos (a new version of the Expos)...all the old Expos records and history would remain with the Washington Nationals. The Portland Pioneers would be a brand new franchise in the National League West, the Pacific Division. Most teams would now have natural interleague rivals, although personally I am not a fan of interleague play at all. Texas is far too big to not have a National League representative. Many rivalries would stay in tact while new ones (Washington vs Montreal) would prove most interesting (similarly to the Browns & Ravens in the NFL). .

I'm very gratified at so many terrific responses. I would add I miss Jim McKay and ABC having the Olympics. And I also miss that both Summer & Winter games would be held in a leap year. Now they stagger them. I miss when the Olympics were about (or supposedly about) amateur athletes. The whole Dream Team thing really shattered it for me, although from what I understand other countries had their professionals compete in the Olympics, so that really sullied the Olympic games for me altogether.

If you are a Yankees fan, you'll probably want a Democrat as President. The last time the Yankees won a World Series with a Republican at the helm was way back in 1958 when Dwight Eisenhower was in office. Yankees World Series victories since then: 1961 & 1962 (JFK) 1977 & 1978 (Carter) 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 (Clinton) 2009 (Obama) Yankees World Series losses since 1958: 1960 vs Pittsburgh Pirates (Eisenhower) Republican 1963 vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (Kennedy) Democrat 1964 vs. St. Louis Cardinals (Johnson) Democrat 1976 vs. Cincinnati Reds (Ford) Republican 1981 vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (Reagan) Republican 2001 vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (Bush) Republican 2003 vs. Florida Marlins (Bush) Republican

I thought the Boston Red Sox in 1912 also, the year Fenway Park opened, no?

For me, (I am 53 now), the good old days were during the 1970s. I miss Phil Rizzuto, Bob Messer & Bill White announcing Yankee games on WPIX Channel 11, New York, including the "Here Come The Yankees" theme music. Ditto Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner & Lindsey Nelson on WWOR Channel 9 including the "Meet the Mets" theme song. Although not a fan of Philly teams, I even miss Harry Kalas & Richie "Whitey" Ashburn announcing Phillies broadcasts. I also miss ABC's Wide World of Sports. I loved watching Meadowlark Lemon & Curley Neal with the Harlem Globetrotters on those broadcasts. I miss daytime MLB playoff baseball. I miss Super Bowls & other NFL games being played in the afternoon in full daylight. I miss Howard Cosell, Don Meredith & Frank Gifford on Monday Night Football on ABC. A great many of the colorful uniforms from back then I miss big time too. I've attempted to recreate some of them in paint. Very very amateurish especially compared to a lot of the amazing artwork shared on here by so many gifted members. Above all other things, I miss having my Dad, my best friend and my cousins to watch games with. Many sweet memories made. Oh and I miss the simple joy of collecting Topps Baseball cards back in the day too. How I wish I had taken much better care of them...hindsight is like this year, 2020.

I'm a tad disappointed that there are no AFC or NFC logos in the end zones.

My NFL: And I'd keep the 16 week schedule, and either get rid of the bye week during the regular season, or if they have to have it, give one conference off one week (week 8), the other conference off the following week (week 9). That would never fly due to television only getting 8 games to televise vs. 13, 14, 15 or 16. It would also never fly in this day and age because of fantasy :-\

That's a very valid and logical argument. On the reverse side, one could argue in baseball for example, the Blue Jays, who haven't made post season since Bill Clinton still had dark hair, every year have to play about half of their games against only 4 teams, two of them being the high-spending Yankees & Red Sox. Meanwhile a team like Oakland gets cream puffs like the Astros and Mariners (although the M's are up and comers if their 2014 record is any indications). As for as baseball seeding goes, I don't think that really matters much anymore. The top seeds were once again eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this year. I rather liked the balanced schedule used by the A.L. from 1977 - 1993 and the N.L. in 1993 when they too expanded to 14 teams. The Yankees/Red Sox rivalry would be a bit more special I believe if they only met 4 times a year, 3 game series for 3 times and one 4 game series. Seems to me with all the games baseball has, a balanced schedule could certainly work. One disadvantage to that though would be in theory, more travel. But it was great once upon a time too, when the schedules were unbalanced. When there were just 12 NL teams, folks who live near Philly and who are Dodger fans would get to have 6 chances a year to see the Dodgers play. Now with 15 teams per league and so much interleague play and divisional play, the Dodgers (and all other teams outside of the NL East) come to Philly only once a year.

The "New" USFL (taking teams from the 1983-85 league). I contracted the Jacksonville Bulls, Oklahoma Outlaws and (insert city name here) Breakers. FYI and historical context, the Breakers were in Boston in 1983, New Orleans in 1984 and Portland, Oregon in 1985, hence the sarcastic (insert city name here) disclaimer. Atlantic Division - New Jersey Generals, Philadelphia Stars, Pittsburgh Maulers, Washington Federals Southern Division - Birmingham Stallions, Orlando Renegades, Memphis Showboats, Tampa Bay Bandits Central Division - Chicago Blitz, Michigan Panthers, Houston Gamblers (sorry the helmet i just noticed was a bit sliced), San Antonio Gunslingers Pacific Division - Arizona Wranglers, Denver Gold, Los Angeles Express, Oakland Invaders 18 game season (which is what the old USFL had). Each team plays 2 games against its 3 division opponents, home and away, and each team plays 1 game vs. the other 12, 6 at home 6 on the road on an alternating basis (e.g. New Jersey would play at Oakland one season, the next year Oakland would play at New Jersey). Just like the NFL, there would be 6 playoff spots. The 4 division winners seeded 1-4, and 2 wildcards. Wildcard Weekend 6 seed at 3 seed and 5 seed at 4 seed. Divisional Playoffs 6,5 or 4 seed at 1 seed, and 5,4, or 3 seed at 2 seed. USFL Championship Game - Neutral Site. No "bye" week between the Divisional Playoffs and the Championship Game.

As a follow-up to my 32 team MLB re-alignment post, here are the caps in the new divisional alignment: I gave the Orioles back their cap from what they had just prior to going back to the grinning cartoonish bird. The Red Sox caps would be red again, as they were from 1975-78. I think they looked really sharp, and still do. The Blue Jays would go back to the white panel on their caps and have the 1977-96 logo. The Charlotte Knights cap was easy to create, using their logo on a cap template. Team colors gold and black with a touch of silver for the head of armor. The person who made that Indians logo did a really nice and brilliant job. I never liked the Chief Wahoo logo, even when I was a kid growing up in the 1970s, I thought it was really goofy looking. I didn't have room for a 2 cap scenario, but only the Tigers would have 2 different caps in my baseball world. The white "D" for home games, and the orange "D" (showcased here) for their road games. The Twins cap would have the white panel again, with the interlocking "TC". This would be used for both home and away games. The Texas Rangers would have blue caps, with the red "T". I never liked the red caps that the Rangers adopted back in I guess 1994. The Anaheim Angels (no more of this Los Angeles of Anaheim hooey) would go back to having a navy cap with a red brim. Again, I never liked nor embraced their red caps. Too many red teams in the American League. The Diamondbacks cap is black with their "A" logo on it and the reddish/orange brim. In the National League, the Nationals would always have a navy cap with a red brim. I dislike that there are so many "red" teams now in baseball. To me the Red Sox, the Reds and the Cardinals should have red, and that's it. For the Phillies, I married their current cap logo with their previous burgundy colored caps. I always have loathed the Phillies (all Philadelphia teams), but loved it when they had a distinct color. The re-branded Expos expansion team would go back to their 1970s & 80s cap, with the white panel in the front and the MLB logo. The Pittsburgh Pirates caps would harken back to the days of Clemente in the early 1970s, with the mustard gold caps and the black P on it. The Florida Marlins (not Miami in my world) would go back to their original logo, and have the teal cap with black brim. Again, this was nice as it gave them some distinction. The Brewers cap I made more of a bluish/purple hue. It might only be me but during the 1970s and early 80s, those Brewers caps looked almost purple to me. I made the "M" a more yellow hue. The Houston Astros would always have the orange caps. Again I loved that they had a distinct color. In the NL West, the Padres would go back to their brown/orange/gold look. Again very distinct! The current set is about as thrilling as watching paint dry in my opinion. The San Francisco Giants' caps would always have the orange brim. So there you have it, my re-aligned world showcased by how I'd want the MLB caps to look. Only division winners would advance to the post-season. Best 3 out of 5 series to determine the East & West champions. Best 4 out of 7 for the LCS and of course 4 out of 7 for the World Series. I'd simply alternate every year who was home team for the extra game in these post-season series, rather than have it based on record, but that could still apply I suppose.

I realize it can't happen, but I always find myself wishing the Milwaukee Bucks could be int he Central along w/the Bulls, Cavs, Pistons & Pacers. I'm not crazy about "Wizards" either. Federals I remember was the USFL team. Also I'm not thrilled w/the Pelicans nickname either....

Wow wdm, gotta give credit where credit is due. Maybe your variation is much better than mine. However, I don't like the "no interleague play" rule, despite that I agree with you on a standpoint that has allowed MLB its uniqueness from other pro sports leagues in the U.S. prior to 1997 (when interleague play was introduced). And what a great way to align the divisions/sub-divisions; but if it was in an interleague play standpoint, it almost allows every team to have a natural rivalry (i.e.: N.Y. Mets/N.Y. Yankees; Washington/Baltimore; Houston/Texas; etc.) About the playoff format, nice format. But if it was me, I would add the wild cards, just for upsets. Thanks kindly for the comments, they are greatly appreciated. The way I did the grid, I tried to co-ordinate the "natural" interleague rival for all 32 teams... Angels/Dodgers, Diamondbacks/Rockies, Athletics/Giants, Mariners/Padres, White Sox/Cubs, Royals/Cardinals, Twins/Brewers, Rangers/Astros, Knights/Braves, Indians/Reds, Tigers/Pirates, Rays/Marlins, Orioles/Nationals, Red Sox/Phillies, Yankees/Mets and Blue Jays/Expos. Also, all 32 teams would have an in-league rival.... Yankees/Red Sox, Orioles/Blue Jays, Tigers/Indians, Rays/Knights (Ray Knight could attend!), Royals/Rangers, Twins/White Sox, Angels/Athletics, Mariners/Diamondbacks, Phillies/Mets, Expos/Nationals, Reds/Pirates, Marlins/Braves, Cubs/Cardinals, Brewers/Astros, Dodgers/Giants & finally Rockies/Padres.