Cap Razer's 1st ever Sports poll

[Cap Razer]

1. In terms of realignment, baseball should:<
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>A. Keep their setup the way it is<
>B. Stay at 30 teams but move the Houston Astros to the AL West, balancing the leagues out<
>C. Stay with unbalanced leagues but look into returning to a four-division setup<
>D. Eliminate two teams but stay at six divisions<
>E. Eliminate two teams and go back to four divisions<
>F. Add two teams but stay at six divisions<
>G. Add two teams and go back to four divisions<
>H. Add two teams and go to eight divisions<
>I. Look back into radical realignment<
>J. Go with Bud Selig's current proposal<
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>2. What do you think of the baseball wild card?<
>A. I am against it in all regards; teams that don't finish in first place absolutely do not deserve playoff spots<
>B. I believe it's good the way it is<
>C. I believe wild cards are OK so long as they are at a significant disadvantage to the teams that did finish first<
>D. I believe baseball should go to a 16-team playoff system, thereby rendering the regular season completely devoid of any shred of meaning it may once have had<
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>3. Who SHOULD be commissioner of baseball? (Assume it's actually possible to get that ja
one Selig out of office, even if it takes an angry mob wielding torches and butcher knives)<
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>4. Where will Sammy Sosa end up?<
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>5. NFL owners have decided to realign the league into eight four-team divisions, with the new franchise in Houston being placed in the AFC. What do you believe they should do from here?<
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>A. Move Seattle to the NFC West like has previously been discussed and go with the butt-ugly plan that puts the Colts in the AFC South<
>B. Move another team to the NFC (please specify)<
>C. Keep the conferences unbalanced and stay at six divisions<
>D. Stay at six divisions but balance the conferences<
>E. Do what they did in 1970, where they put five proposals in a vase and picked one out, because there's no way in hell 32 rich bastards are going to agree on what to get on their pizza, much less how to align the league<
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>6. What should they call the 32nd franchise in Houston? (Remember, "Oilers" was retired by the NFL.)<
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>7. Should sports leagues take the same steps the NFL has to ensure that any team in any given year (except the Saints, of course) has a legitimate chance to compete, or has the NFL gone too far? Or should the league take a laissez-faire capitalist approach and let big-market teams eat the small-market teams for
eakfast like in baseball?<
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>8. Do you even watch the NBA? If so, why? If not, why not?<
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>9. How should the NHL go about aiding teams in Canadian markets? Or should they let all their Canadian teams move to cities like Phoenix and Denver?<
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>10. With Glen Sather at GM and Mark Messier back with the team, do the New York Rangers have any hope whatsoever of contending this season, or are they just going to be a group of overpaid underachievers again?<
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>11. Is Major League Soccer <I>really</I> Major League, or is that just a name?<
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>12. Has arena football firmly established itself as a force in pro sports, or is it still just a gimmick?<
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>13. What can feasibly be done about high ticket prices? <B>Nothing can stop me. I am pure RAYS!</B><i></i>

[DEVILRAYS]

1. Baseball should stab Bud Selig in the head, and then go to 32 teams with six divisions.<
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>2. C. I believe wild cards are OK so long as they are at a significant disadvantage to the teams that did finish first<
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>3. Bob Costas, no doubt<
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>4. Beats me. Chicago will fail to re-sign him, and he will walk away as a free agent 'cuz no one wants to trade their prospects for him.<
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>5. Move the Colts to the NFC from whence they came<
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>6. How about the "Alamos"? No wait, that name sucks.<
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>7. The NFL may have taken steps other leagues would avoid, but sports leagues need to ensure that all their teams can compete<
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>8. Nope; college basketball is better<
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>9. Hmmm...this calls for NFL-style socialist sharing of ticket profits and
oadcast revenues. That and Canadian teams should be allowed to pay their players in Canadian dollars (though if a $6 million contract American has to become $9 million Canadian, so be it)<
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>10. Nope. Just a bunch of underachievers. At least for now.<
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>11. It's just a name. Soccer will always be a gimmick in the U.S.<
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>12. With such spokespersons as Kurt Warner, arena football is here to stay.<
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>13. Let's see...endless corporate sponsorship, a salary cap the subtltly
ings down player salaries... DEVILRAYS Rad Stadium<
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