The_Admiral

The Dodgers don't wear navy. The only two team I could change there are the Indians (brown and red) and the Phillies (maroon, light blue optional). Everyone else is fine by me.

Yes, they got their colors from the Pilots. So what? It's an improvement. The script is okay, pretty Schlitzy, but why aren't there serifs on the WAU?

Funny, I thought people agreed there were too many red and blue teams already. I love the Brewers in royal blue and athletic gold. It's such a solid, no-nonsense pair of sports team colors. Flashy without being gaudy or overly complex, simple without being boring and overdone. The only other color combo I could entertain for the Brewers would be a German-inspired black/red/gold, and even that's not as cool as good old blue/yellow.

If you're expanding to Sacramento at the AL level, then you lose the PCL RiverCats and need to account for that, too.

Using alternating colors delineates the elements of the uniform while providing a simple and eye-pleasing pattern. To wit: the Raiders wearing silver helmets, black shirts, silver pants, black socks; or the Packers wearing yellow helmets, green shirts, yellow pants, green socks. Everything is set apart, but at the same time, it matches. The Buccaneers' occasional pewter helmet, red jersey, white pants, black socks sequence; or the Giants' blue/white/grey/red, are just as mismatched as any monochrome.

Then you would break up a multitude of 50-year-old rivalries in a league where travel problems are nonexistent.

If you're going out of your way to be unreasonable, then all your choices aren't correct.

REALIGNMENT CHALLENGE Everyone seems to agree that the natural conclusion of Major League Baseball is a 16-team American League. Unfortunately, not only are the only remaining candidates kinda iffy (Portland, Charlotte), there aren't many smaller cities ready to host their affiliates. So, tell me where you would expand the AL, AAA, AA, Advanced A, Full A, Short Season A, and Rookie Leagues.

That's a terrible idea. The 32-team, 16-game NFL schedule is a thing of beauty. It took them years to come up with a scheduling system that made so much sense and you're scrapping it for two five-team divisions and one six because of the goddamn Seahawks? Reactive crap.

Wannstedt got fired! Now my stupid song is outdated.

I am the very model of a modern major conference I've quite a perfect radius, diameter, circumference I know all of my members whether Catholic or secular I'll name them alphabetically in manners most spectacular: Cincinnati sounds deceptively Mediterranean In Hartford there plays UConn and likewise they're not Canadian DePaul is nominally part but cannot ever win a game In Washington is Georgetown where Pat Ewing is their claim to fame Use three beats to say "Louisville" or else the rhythm goes to hell And there's Marquette who still don't know just what they want to call themselves Though Notre Dame's athletics still just are not what they used to be At least they're not in Pittsburgh where Dave Wannstedt runs the football team In Providence, Rhode Island they do not produce too many pros At Rutgers they are known for having several nappy-headed hos St. John's once had some crazy-looking sublimated uniforms And Seton Hall is where the Pirates come at you in waves and swarms South Florida's in Tampa which is really not that south at all At Syracuse the roof inflates like a balloon or basketball Then take the Main Line out to Villanova, hope the ride's not long Then go to West Virginia while your toothless sister sucks your dong So there you have a round sixteen but TCU just spoiled that They're all the way in Texas, and they surely wear retarded hats But rednecks they may be our fair Big East is full of tolerance, That's why we are the model of a modern major conference.

I could name them all if I set them to the tune of a Gilbert & Sullivan song.

We were going to send Susie to some small private school nobody's ever heard of, but when we found out Arizona State belonged to a conference that didn't let Boise State join in any revenue-generating reindeer games, the decision was easy. Now she's majoring in having orange skin. Praisèd be the academic excellence of the Pac-10.

If academics are everything, you don't send your child to a flagship state university with thousands upon thousands of undergraduates who are sent down the line to finance graduate studies.

The fans of Pac-10 and Big Ten schools (troublingly, not necessarily alumni) jerk themselves off over the Academic Forefront far more than the schools do, which just want more money.

Oh no, not this condescending bullcrap.

Isn't that what priests call a reacharound?

Northwest Indiana

The sports demographics are too crystallized. Chicago can support two baseball teams because it's had two baseball teams for over a hundred years. Any second team in another sport is way too late to the party to make any worthwhile inroads in an exceedingly provincial region. Anyone who isn't a Bears fan is a Packers fan, and there's only shame in abandoning either one for the Jaguars or something. "Likely set at the United Center for a while" is a vast understatement considering the anchor tenants own the real estate and make lots of money off it.

They're guarding the city. Tomahawks don't hide behind anyone or any letter.

I was trying to go with the cities on the circuits rather than the teams. I'm well aware that the Mets weren't established in 1876. Basically, the main idea was to recreate something between the pre-expansion National League and the NL East, and build from there. Going with a true charter/expansion division is truer to the definition, yes, but then you have divisions wherein the Dodgers and Giants see the Padres rarely, but the Pirates often. If you use the Mets as the stand-in for the Dodgers and Giants, and have Milwaukee AND the Braves stand in for the Milwaukee Braves, you get the closest thing to 1957 you're going to get. It's an imperfect system, but which isn't? Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Chicago have to be in the same division. Milwaukee and Chicago have to be together because they're close and they like it that way. Chicago and St. Louis have to be together because duh. Brewers/Cardinals is a decent secondary rivalry as well, given that Brewers fans don't seem to like sanctimonious Cardinal goobers any more than we do.

I think the '05 Spurs were the first to tuck their dicks between their legs and deferentially put "NBA Champions" on their banner because they had so much International Flair or something.

Because it's the highest level of competition in the world. a'duh. The Nippon Ham Fighters could "take on" the New York Yankees in roughly the same sense that a mouse takes on a cat. It's pretty obvious that you don't really follow those sports if you're seriously postulating that overseas clubs wouldn't get wiped by North American clubs.

Mburmy: Pretty good, I agree with Portland and Charlotte if there have to be two more teams, but why the insistence on eight divisions of four? It's not nice. I'd rather have four clunky divisions of eight than eight divisions of four. AMERICAN LEAGUE Expansion Circuit Los Angeles, Portland, Oakland, Seattle, Texas, Toronto, Charlotte, Tampa Bay Charter Circuit Baltimore, Boston, New York, , Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Minnesota, Kansas City NATIONAL LEAGUE Expansion Circuit Colorado, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Arizona, Washington, Miami Charter Circuit Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

Mburmy: Pretty good, I agree with Portland and Charlotte if there have to be two more teams, but why the insistence on four divisions of four? It's not nice. Why not two of eight? AMERICAN LEAGUE North Chicago White Sox Cleveland Indians Detroit Tigers Minnesota Twins South Charlotte TBD Kansas City Royals Tampa Bay Rays Texas Rangers East Baltimore Orioles Boston Red Sox New York Yankees Toronto Blue Jays West Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Portland TBD Oakland Athletics Seattle Mariners NATIONAL LEAGUE North Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Reds Brewers St. Louis Cardinals SWh Diamondbacks East Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, NY Mets, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Colorado, LA Dodgers, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Arizona, Washington, Miami