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How to make interleague play better. (Closer).
Baseball hits a slow time during June. Basketball and hockey are going into their finals, but the baseball playoff races don't shape up for a while and trade deadline rumors are a few weeks away, so it is the perfect time for an experiment.
When interleague play began, people were talking about how the games would kill the fun of the World Series because the teams could have played each other during the season. Well, interleague hasn't killed the fun of the World Series. The truth is, interleague is good, was good and can be made even more fun. Let's face it, who doesn't want to watch the good matchups--Mets vs. Yankees, Cubs vs. White Sox, Dodgers vs. Angels. But after that, there isn't much to get excited about in interleague play. Who wants to see the Royals play the Giants, or the Twins play the Rockies? The sad truth is there aren't enough good rivalries in baseball that interleague play can spur on. In fact, outside of guys who have played in one league their whole career or have never been to Yankee Stadium, where's the story?
That's why interleague play needs to evolve. ...
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