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Milwaukee wanted to flip leagies and did it voluntarily. They offered it to KC who declined. Brewers said yes. If they'd said no, they would have offered the chance to the Twins. The Brewers would have jumped on it first because they really wanted to do it, but since Selig was commish, they offered the chance to another team (KC) first to try to avoid the appearance of favoritism/impropriety.
Crane was forced to do it. Hence, the term "forced".
And Crane "forced" the MLB to compensate him for the move. It was a perfect storm of an ownership group buying a team largely using debt at the exact time of divisional realignment, but please continue to use it as "smack." Weakest thing brought on here yet.
Yeah, just a "perfect storm" that there happened to be a team with no real national significance being sold at the time so tossing them a discount and having them abandon the unremarkable 50 years of National League history they had was easy.
So in 2010 if the MLB would have been looking to move a team to the NL, they would have strong armed the Rangers too is what you're saying. See how weak that smack is? Your team is just as nationally insignificant. HTH
Except that didn't happen.
One team has been forced to move leagues in the last 115+ years of Major League Baseball.
The Houston Astros.
Right, but you and others insistence that as smack is dumb.
It would be like me saying your divisional wins prior to realignment shouldn't count because you only had to best 3 teams. It's dumb, weak smack.