On 10 Aug 97, after being hired as WNBA commissioner, Ed Grinnell said:
 EG> Frankly, they don't need it. What they SHOULD do is ONE thing. The
 EG> rejected alignment had one problem -- Arizona went to the AL West and
 EG> they didn't want to go to the AL.
Who cares?  Why should a team that's never played a game dictate to a sport 
with more than 100 years of tradition?  I think Arizona should be happy to go 
where they're told.  Period.
 EG> They could fix that alignment with one change -- keep Arizona in the NL
 EG> West and move Houston to the AL West. It keeps both leagues pretty much
 EG> intact (KC moves over from the AL) and puts two rivalries into motion -
 EG> Texas vs Houston and Arizona vs Colorado.
How you going to handle scheduling with 15 teams per league?  Either you have 
interleague play every day or at least one team in each league is off every 
day.
 EG> The NFL may be the NFL, however, it's members still identify themselves
 EG> as either AFL or NFL.
They do?  That's news to me.  I've been a Chiefs fan for almost 30 years and 
I've never known them to identify themselves as an AFL team (at least not 
since they really were an AFL team).
... Chiefs over Raiders - 7 out of last 8; 13 out of last 15!
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