MLB (and the NFL) alignments come from the fact that they come out of historically two separate leagues.
In your opinion sure, season ticket holders 100% disagree.
The Florida teams are in the current Atlantic because breaking up was was formerly the Atlantic (now Metro) was politically fire bomb for the league. The original proposal had Pittsburgh with the old Northeast division team (this proposal also had Detroit and Columbus staying in the central). The Penguins and Flyers screamed about. Likewise the league could break up the Flyers from the 3 NYC teams for similar reasons. So those 5 teams had to stay together.
What rivalry is there between TOR and MTL these days? One is a bottom-feeder and the other is a perennial playoff choker.
10 more Expansion fees! Cha-ching—
I’d even add the Flyers to those three.
Yeah, Buffalo with Toronto, Toronto with Montreal, Montreal with Boston. Those 4 have to be together. Then it would make sense to add Ottawa.
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Oh good someone disagrees without providing any legitimate criticism whatsoever. Maybe you could engage in actual conversation instead of just saying "lol, no"? Why act like an ass right off the bat like this? Seriously?
As a 20 year STH, teams do surveys each year , playing the same team 6-8x a year was the number one complaint, along with not seeing each team twice.
It's not just NBC. We absolutely hate the Pens at least as much as the Rangers and Devils. The only thing that matters in terms of ordering the three is "which of them is the most direct threat at the time," and since the lockout, that's mostly been the Pens (and now that the Rags and Debbies are good again, we suck, so the Pens are more of a threat to our recovery, since they're the ones who might keep us from a better draft pick if they fall apart.) The only thing that really cooled the rivalry there for a while was Mario coming back from cancer. Too much respect for him to truly let loose, but once he retired, game on.
It is a sound argument when you are talking about feasibility. If the NFL can survive without the need it shows you don't need to have an even number against every team. It doesn't matter if the number of games in a season are different because all that says is that success is independent of the number of games played and that the product is what is more important. This isn't hard to understand.
I tried to alleviate that by putting having the metro play the northwest 4 times still. Ottawa, Montreal, Boston and Toronto would get eachother 6 times. Not sure how much Buffalo is getting toronto this year but can't be much more that that, if at all.
This and teams like Calgary and Edmonton I think only play 4 times.
There is also a certain thing called ratings. Ratings are dictated by fan bases. Fan bases love rivalries. Calgary vs Edmonton will always draw.....as will Montreal vs Toronto
Yes, I said they exist between fanbases. Fanbases like to make up narratives.
Your argument loses all credibility using NFL, in what world would the NFL play a 64 game schedule. Saying NFL doesn’t do it, is laughable at best.
Never said I want more rivalries.
