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I can see why the Royals would want to be in the NL Central, but I'm really confused as to why the Brewers would want to be in the AL at all.

Just move the Brewers into the AL Central and move the Royals into the AL West. Balance the leagues by correcting Selig's stupidity. Use inter-league play to balance the schedules.

You're making billions and you can't figure out how to schedule leagues with an odd number of teams?

Exactly, I still think this is one of the biggest jokes that the leagues are unbalanced like this, if not make the Brewers move to the AL, then figure out one new city to add and be done with it...

Well, let us not forget that BudHole Selig still runs the Brewers from behind the scenes. If you think that he doesn't you're nuts. He owned the team and then turned around and gave it to his daughter. You know that he has his hands in the pot. If Selig wants the Brewers to move, then they will move. You can blame the owners for keeping him. On the other hand, how can you blame the owners when Selig is so good at turning his head. You would think that he would suffer from whiplash as much as he has turned it the 5-7 years!

wow i never knew u could switchh divisions!!!!

and since u can do this maybe the Royals should switch to a minor-league division.

CardsFan2 is dead on. I like the idea of moving the Royals into the AL West and shifting the Brewers to the AL Central.

The Royals can be contracted Pimpy, but the Brewers? No way man.

NOOOO.. no new cities. take some cities away! AS hyper would say... GAH!

They have baseball in Kansas City still? Hmm. Learn something new everyday.

On a serious note the Royals have been fielding better more talented teams the last few years but play in a tough division (AL Central). A move to the NL would help them and most definitely improve their record (except a move to the NL East).

pimpy- no those teams are still trying. I'd contract the Marlins and Twins.. two teams that gave up and are having fire sales and making profit off revenue sharing.

What the heck is PimpyLooka smoking. The Royals might be crap but the Brewers are going for the division this year with all of the talent they have.
One more thing jlbx3 I hate to tell you but Selig's daughter does not run or OWN the team any more. Get your facts straight. The Brewers should stay right where they are.

Go Brewers

1. A schedule with an odd number of teams in any league cannot be scheduled ... one team would always be off.
2. Keep your conspiracy theories at home, Bud Selig has nothing to do with the Brewers any longer ... and hasn't for a number of years (not counting the Wendy Selig-Prieb years).
3. Why on Earth would the Brewers move back to the AL right now when it's clearly the more competitive league? They actually have a half-way decent team in the lesser of the two leagues.

This is the dumbest thing I've heard today.

KC is now, and always was, a AAA town......

On the topic of contraction, I think that neither team in Florida can fill a stadium for 81 home games. I also think MLB made a big mistake when they didn't contract the Expos/Nationals when they had a chance. MLB should have contracted the Expos and Devil Rays, forced the Marlins to play half their home games in Miami and half in Tampa, and moved the Rockies to the A.L. The two 14-team leagues could have looked like this:

NL East: Mets, Braves, Phillies, Marlins, Pirates
NL Central: Reds, Cubs, Cardinals, Astros, Brewers
NL West: D-Backs, Padres, Dodgers, Giants
AL East: Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Orioles
AL Central: Indians, Tigers, White Sox, Royals, Twins
AL West: Rangers, Rockies, Mariners, Athletics, Angels

Contraction is the dumbest idea ever come up with. Most or all of the team have either gotten or are getting new stadiums and every team out their is making money. Their is no way any teams get contracted.

As for divisions I always thought baseball should have just put Arizona (when they were an expansion team) in the AL west and moved Houston to the NL west.

It was just a few years ago that Harold Reynolds was screaming about contracting the Tigers. Isn't it ironic that it was Reynolds who got the boot?

hmmm .... M-a-r-s, i think icould live with that for now. i would be more drastic in the contraction but i could live with what you propose. not that anything we say will ever amount to a hill of beans as far as MLB is concerned, though (lqtm)

Contraction, raise the mound, test for the roids better than the olympics.