What To Make Of MLB's Potential Expansion & Realignment

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Valenti and Stoney react to some comments from MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred about some big changes potentially coming in the future.

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0:00.0	All right, Odyssey.com, Rewan.
0:01.7	You missed that, and then we'll get back into the Lions a little bit, some declarative statements from the weekend, and a Tom Pelliserro report.
0:08.7	But, Stoney, you've got something that once you seem very agitated today.
0:13.4	Yeah, I mean, it's kind of weird.
0:15.1	The more I think about it, it's not as crazy as I first thought, but it would absolutely kill traditionalists.
0:24.8	Okay.
0:26.0	Rob Manfred was in the...
0:27.7	I hate the idea already.
0:28.8	Okay.
0:29.4	Rob Manfred's awful.
0:31.4	You know what?
0:32.0	The pitch clock has helped baseball a lot.
0:34.4	So I'll give him credit for that.
0:36.0	Yeah.
0:36.1	Can he fix the fact that the season is a death
0:38.4	march? Well, that's been, that's not going to help traditionalists who love the fact that there's
0:42.4	162 games. Do you realize you're still like 40 games to go? Yeah, Tiger's Magic number is 30. Anyway,
0:47.7	oh great. Anyway, um, he went on the ESPN broadcast last night of the Mets and the Mariners and said that there might be a possible realignment in baseball coming if the owners agreed to expansion, which they've been talking about.
1:11.9	Look, in fairness, baseball hasn't expanded in a long time.
1:15.2	Because two-thirds of the teams don't even try.
1:18.6	Well, that's hold it.
1:19.8	Look, he loved to have a salary cap, which would make more teams try, obviously,
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