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Let's Contract Two Different Teams
July 24, 2002 - Go Spurs
One of the few things that makes football (the round-ball version) watchable is the tiering. While Man U and Arsenal maintain a stranglehold on the top (the 'pool was a fluke), teams like Middlesborough, Nottingham, and Blackburn Rovers can
Instead of completely segregating the teams, we can leave 30 teams in the majors, another 30 in AAA, and so on. At the end of each year, the top eight teams in the Majors would go to the playoffs, as it is now. The bottom four (read: Detroit, Milwaukee, Florida, Tampa Bay) would move to Triple-A, and the four top "Trips" could move up. Over time, the stronger markets, the stronger management teams, would rise to the top. Portland, Chatanooga, and Louisville could end up with a major league team while teams with a tendency to fade from the race by Memorial Day could remain competitive in a lower circuit.
Of course, each major league team would have to disassociate their farms, but after the Padres maintained themselves as the league's farm club three times now, we can follow their model for player distribution.
This way, Thomas Payne up there can maintain the Capitalist structure that keeps his Yankees on top and the other teams can dig deep into the pits of their souls and decide why they REALLY exist.
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