Nine months ago, in formulating a fanciful plan for radical realignment in baseball — a plan that I knew had no chance of ever coming to fruition, but was a fun thought exercise nonetheless — I suggested splitting up the Cardinals and Cubs.
"When you look at the history between those two teams, it’s not exactly like breaking up the Dodgers and Giants or the Red Sox and Yankees," I wrote. “Is that coastal bias? Maybe, but the Cardinals have actually played more meaningful games with the Royals in their history, and it’s an intrastate duel.