What happens to your season ticket base if the Royals or Indians were to tell their fans, “hey next year we’re going to go get our brains beat in by the Sox and Yanks in the AL East so that maybe we can switch divisions down the road and compete several years from now.

Teams switching divisions to rebuild and publicly throw in the towel not only would erode that team’s fanbase, but it would also adversely impact the competitive balance with respect to the teams that were actually trying. If the Royals chose to go into the AL East so the Yankees and Red Sox would play them 18 times each, I’m guessing the Angels, Rays, Twins and others would not be too pleased.

If the purpose is to help competitive balance they should look at ways to actually address the problems instead of trying to come up with a “workaround” that really wouldn’t work around a damn thing.

On the bright side, when brainstorming, such bizarre out-there ideas like this can result in the development of some very real and tangible solutions that have nothing to do with the ideas from which they were born.

My audible response: “What the shit?!”

Your thoughts.