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Is Beloit deliberately trying to goad MiLB into contracting them?

#HawtTaek

@Bruhammydude, are you serious?

Expecting a breakup of the league?

Unlike BYU, Liberty has shown a willingness to play on Sundays, I that matters that much in the grand scheme of things.

Great. Googly. Moogly.

#BrandLosestrikesagain

In light of the leaking of the list of the 42 teams targeted for elimination from Minor League Baseball, I have worked out a potential alignment of MiLB's New World Order. Some of it is simple, some very complex: AAA International League Buffalo, Lehigh Valley, Rochester, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Syracuse, Worcester Charlotte, Durham, Gwinnett, Norfolk Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville. Memphis, Nashville, Toledo Iowa, Omaha, St. Paul, Wichita Pacific Coast League Albuquerque, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Round Rock, San Antonio Las Vegas, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake, Tacoma AA Eastern League Akron, Altoona, Bowie, Brooklyn, Dayton, Harrisburg, Hartford, New Hampshire, Portland, Reading, Trenton, West Michigan Southern League Arkansas, Biloxi, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Mississippi, Montgomery, Pensacola, Richmond, Rocket City, Tennessee Texas League Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Frisco, Midland, NW Arkansas, Springfield MO, Sugarland, Tulsa High-A California League Fresno, Lake Elsinore, Modesto, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, San Jose, Stockton, Visalia Carolina League Aberdeen, Asheville, Carolina, Down East, Fayetteville, Fredericksburg, Greensboro, Hickory, Kannapolis, Lynchburg, Salem, Winston-Salem Florida State League Bradenton, Charlotte, Clearwater, Dunedin, Fort Myers, Jupiter, Lakeland, Palm Beach, St. Lucie. Tampa Low-A Midwest League Beloit or Quad Cities, Bowling Green, Cedar Rapids, Fort Wayne, Great Lakes, Kane County, Lansing, Peoria, South Bend, Wiscnsin New York-Penn League(For lack of better options) Delmarva, Hudson Valley, Lake County, Lakewood, Staten Island, Tri-City(NY), West Virginia Black Bears, Wilmington Northwest League Boise, Eugene, Everett, Hillsboro, Spokane, Vancouver South Atlantic League Augusta, Charleston(SC), Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Rome Any suggestions, thoughts, and/or blind rage at my realignment?

The problem is, if it does go into effect, many of the said markets will just give up on competitive baseball completely.

More on the Deadspin Death Spiral, the time coming from The Intelligencer @ New York Mag.

All this buildup for a team that could get fortyseconded to fulfill MLB's bloodlust to move MILB to the exurbs of MLB cities? Yeah, right.

Someone on another forum did a quick calculation on who would be cut in a contraction of the minor leagues: -- Staten Island (NYY) and Brooklyn (NYM) would likely be the two NYPL teams moving up to the AA Eastern League -- Aberdeen (BAL) would likely be the NYPL team moving to the high-A Carolina League -- If you sort all 160 current affected teams, the top 120 (the projected cutoff point) would all have a minimum of 5000 seats at their stadiums. The two independent teams (St. Paul and Sugar Land) have capacities of 7000-7500 -- All 10 teams in the Appalachian League are in the danger zone, having capacities of 4000 or less, but 7 of those 10 teams are owned by their MLB affiliates -- The other Rookie-Adv level league, the Pioneer League, currently has 5 out of 8 teams in the safety zone (including Colorado-owned Grand Junction), but 2 of those 5 would be bumped out by the two independents -- High-A Carolina League would have 3 teams in trouble (Down East (TEX owned), Fayetteville (HOU owned), Lynchburg) -- High-A Florida State League would have 1 team in trouble (Daytona) -- High-A California League would have 3 teams in trouble (Modesto (SEA owned), San Jose (SF owned), Visalia) -- Low-A South Atlantic League would have 3 teams in trouble (Asheville, Hagerstown, Kannapolis) -- Low-A Midwest League would have 3 teams in trouble (Beloit, Bowling Green, Burlington)

The St. Paul Saints' reaction to all this? It's news to us. https://twitter.com/AA_Baseball/status/1185721261042724872

I actually saw a report on ballparkdigest.com saying that a PCL team is being targeted for a move to St. Paul and that some short season clubs, like the whole Northwest League may become full season operations.

MLB has proposed eliminating 42 MiLB clubs from affiliated baseball(basically by nuking the short season leagues) and is seeking to bring in two independent league teams to help get to 120. Those being So...with that in mind, what 42 clubs would you eliminate? This of course assumes this idea passes through without modifications.

Watch it be Mill Mules, due to Brandlose's involvement of course.

Blope: St. Thomas, subject approval of a waiver, is heading to the Summit League in 2021. The move comes two days after City Pages(a Twin Cities weekly) gave a good explanation why their soon to be former conference gave the Tommies their walking papers.

Potential sportpocalypse on the horizon as AT&T threatens to dump the FON, along with other Disney networks. https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-blitzes-att-mnf-viewers-with-ads-ticker-updates-streaming-blackouts-as-massive-suddenly-contentious-att-carriage-dispute-looms.html

The Twitterverse seems to hate both the names and logos.

Not if this tweet is indicative:

But that's just one man's tweet.

If you're the XFL, you're supposed to avoid them.

Animal names? I'll pass.

Case in point: