M.ajor L.eague B.ullshit

So the MLB is finally talking about realignment because apparently they just realized how stupid it is to have 6 teams in the NL Central, whilst having a mere 4 teams in the AL West. Except they have the formula all wrong! If you don't believe me, read here:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Best-realignment-possibility-Astros-and-Rangers?urn=mlb-wp9320

They are WAY over-complicating this. I have been talking about an easier way to fix this for years! You may have heard me wax poetic about how I would realign the leagues and my intentions to share this thought with Bud Selig and Major League Baseball. Well, I have been sleeping on the idea as of late but now that they are discussing it, I suppose I should get my idea out there ASAP before Bud ruins the future of my favorite sport.

If you haven't heard my solution, its quite simple. Move the Colorado Rockies from the NL West to the AL West. Then move the Houston Astros from the NL Central to the NL West, to replace the hole left by the Rockies' departure. This switcheroo would make the divisions equal at 5 teams apiece, aligning them as thus:

AL East: Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Rays, Blue Jays
AL Central: White Sox, Royals, Indians, Twins, Tigers
AL West: Angels, Athletics, Rangers, Mariners, and ROCKIES
NL East: Mets, Phillies, Braves, Marlins, Nationals
NL Central: Cardinals, Cubs, Reds, Brewers, Pirates
NL West: Dodgers, Padres, Giants, Diamonsbacks, and ASTROS

Boom! Done! On the surface it appears that the simpler move would be to put the Astros from the NL Central into the AL West and walk away from it. I'm not a huge fan of this realignment because then it outs the Astros and Rangers in the same division and I just think they're too close. It's not like there aren't other geographically close division rivals in the rest of the league, but this one would just bother me for some reason (perhaps as a Cardinals fan I'm in no hurry to see the Astros leave the NL?) and I think the AL West could use the Rockies. The only thing this alignment doesn't fix is the Pirates being in the NL Central instead of one of the other Eastern divisions, but I can only fix one thing at a time... and that one isn't that bad.

Other things that need to be fixed in the off-season along with realignment: remove the DH from the AL (and thus, interleague play), salary caps, video replay on calls at 1st base, among other things. Maybe I can include these items in my letter to the league...