realignment

First of all I realize I'm about 7 years late with these objections...but who the hell decided baseball's current alignment. Here are a few problems that I have

- The American League has 14 teams with breakdowns of East (5), Central (5), West (4) and the National League has 16 teams with breakdowns of East (5), Central (6), West (5). Brilliant. I can't for the life of me remember why they decided to move the Brewers to the National League

Here is how I would do it

AL East: New York, Boston, Baltimore, Tampa Bay, Toronto
AL Central: Cleveland, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Detroit, Chicago
AL West: Angels, Seattle, Kansas City, Oakland, Texas (big change being KC in West but they already do this in the NFL)

NL East: Atlanta, New York, Philly, Florida, DC
NL Central: Chicago, Cincy, Houston, St.Louis, Pittsburgh
NL West: San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Arizona, Colorado

So every division has five teams which seems fair. I don't know how the owners of the NL Central clubs ok'd their teams to be in a division with 6 teams and let the AL West get away with four. They have to beat out two additional teams to win the division.

The only beef I have with my alignment is that I don't see a logical way to place Philly and Pittsburgh in the same division. It seems like intrastate rivalry would help interest. Dodgers and Giants seem to have a pretty good rivalry although I don't think either team is that heated with the Padres. The only way to do it would be to move Atl over to the Central, which would be their third division and completely kill any type of rivalry we've ever generated.

Anybody remember why the Brewers were switched to the NL?