McCall

If for some insane reason the Cubs DID move to a new park out in Rosemont, should they be renamed the Rosemont Cubs? Hell no. Now obviously the Cubs have much more history than the Coyotes, but it's the same basic situation; it's a suburb. Carries little-to-no marketing value. No offense to Glendale, but it's just a location within the market to place an arena. Much like Fremont would've been for the A's.

Doesn't for me. I did it with the Coyotes thread and STILL had to click trough about 20 pages to get to the end.

Agreed. Used to be able to. Now if you want to go to the last pages of a thread you haven't read in awhile, you either have to flip through every page since your last visit or create a reply soley for the purpose of getting to the end. Neither one is really a good option.

How did you create/Where did you get the images of your Angles, Ducks, and SMU Mustangs' trophies in your sig? Thanks. ? Monkeypower, as well as other members on here, have championship banners of different teams displayed in their signature. I am curious as to where they got it/how they did it. I wanted to add my teams in my signature. What he was referring too: Angels not Angles.

I understand why Chicago would want to join St. Louis and C-bus, but I don't think there is much going on between Minny-Peg and Smashville. -- Anyway, the 60-game season proposal in there would render divisions pretty moot, aside from the 2 games at the end of the season. Every team has to travel to every city precisely once under that scenario. I like the idea of 60 games because then the playoffs might actually finish before snow melts. If the NHL doesn't like the idea of losing 11 home dates, they can always host exhibition series before or after the season to make up the difference in revenue. Plus, you know, one outdoor game for everyone. It's Busch Stadium in St. Louis, not "Cardinals" Stadium. Why would the Predators travel to Knoxville when there's LP Field in Nashville?

PM a mod.

"Needlers" and "Peaks"?

Breaking them down to 3-team separations create way too many divisions. Also, why in the world did you move the Magic to Tampa? After opening a brand new arena in Orlando.

You have the Southern Division stretching from LA to Carolina and the Florida teams? Just because they're geographically south, doesn't mean they fit well in a division. The total distance would be ridiculous coupled with it spanning 4 time zones. You think fans of the teams on the east coast are gonna want to stay up and watch that many games being played 3 hours behind? No, they're not. And there's gonna a lot of games within the division. Not to mention separating the Blues from the Blackhawks.

Chicago's west of the Mississippi? When did they relocate the city? A 3-division format that's evenly numbered with one wild card is better balanced than different numbered divisions. Then you got teams in two divisions claiming the winners of the other two only have to beat out 6 teams aswear they have to beat 7. It's like one of the reasons for switching Houston, the winner of the NL Central had to beat 5 teams when the AL West winner only had to beat 3. If they just ditched the second wild card team, it'd be a much neater 3 division winners plus a wild card. Year-round Interleague play is not the problem. Minimally teams would only have to play like 12 interleague games total. MLB just wanted more games.

The point of the Astros switching leagues was to even out the divisions. By going to 2-divisions in odd-numbered leagues, you've just created more unbalance. So that right there makes this plan less attractive than the actual current alignment. And no the Brewers should not have switched leagues. Milwaukee, thanks to the Braves, was always more of an NL city anyway, plus they've formed much better rivalries with the NL Central clubs than they ever did in the AL. Either Colorado or Arizona should've been the ones to switch leagues. Also, Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown, something not down for 45 years. I find that pretty damn deserving. His defense might not have been as stellar as Trout's, but he actually ended up being fairly adequate enough at 3rd base that it shouldn't have taken away from his offensive numbers, which were the best. Thus, the Triple Crown.

Old Big East now... The American Athletic Conference http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=9130997 So now we have the ACC and the AAC.

It's 3 Illinois schools But UIC doesn't typically provide an RPI boost for anyone, which is going to make it a hard sell. Um wow, Fox News does sports. What's next? Mother Jones covering SEC spring football? MSNBC does news so I guess anything's possible.

Apparently, the MVC is in no rush to replace Creighton, or so they say, but major market schools such as Denver, Milwaukee and Belmont (Nashville) are on their list. http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/03/21/commissioner-says-missouri-valley-conference-in-no-hurry-to-replace-big-east/

It's not basketball-only. The Olympic Sports will be in this league too. Correct, the Catholic 7 Big East will now be a top-tier non-football conference along the lines of the Atlantic 10 and host all sports but football. The former Big East football schools will keep the slot of the BE conference for football, but all other sports will fall under the umbrella of the America 12/Metro/Whatever Name we come about with Conference. Has it been said the football schools will keep big East for football? I don't think they would. It's not like the Missouri Valley and Missouri Valley Football Conferences where many of the same schools are in both but not all. Here, they would share no members, but yet share the name?

Why are there 2 divisions of 7 and 2 of 9? Doesn't make any sense when you can go all divisions of 8.

I believe the MVC has shown interest in maybe trying to bring in Murray State to replace Creighton if they left.

Don't believe teams would go for a plan involving an odd number of games. Half the league would have to play one less home game and one more road game, losing revenue even by one game. Probably wouldn't fly with them. In the 4 major leagues, you pretty much gotta have an even split of home and road games.

Thats what I did Friday. The only way to vanqish the troll is to rid of it's power. Quit feeding him attention and he will eventually go away. Where do you go to ignore them? I couldn't find it anywhere.

It's not that it's run it's course, it's just been taken way too far off topic, namely by one member (max) and, yes, we got sucked in, but only because we were trying to get him out of here so we could get it back on course.

Would I have to quit BASEketball?

What the hell's happening?

Why'd you change that from "Eat it"?

You're like my Aunt Mary's ass; never ending and just as frightening.

Go away. Umm... What does that have to do with NCAA Conference Realignment?