00:00You know, growing up for both myself and you, Major League Baseball was,
00:03we don't see the American League in a National League city like Philadelphia.
00:07They come in the 1990s and make interplay or interleague play a thing.
00:12Has that worn out as welcome here?
00:14And I know Major League Baseball is not looking to go back on that because it was interesting.
00:17Like, hey, you know, the American League doesn't play the National League.
00:20DH on one side, no DH on the other.
00:22How do you think interleague baseball has played out?
00:24And also, is there ever a chance they even go back to the National League
00:28and American League as a separate entity?
00:31Well, the last thing is no, but everything else I think is in play.
00:35You know, I don't think it's worn out its welcome.
00:37It just doesn't have the same luster that it did when you know that basically,
00:41if you live, you know, let's just say in St. Louis,
00:44that Detroit is going to come in every other year now, you know?
00:48So it's just different.
00:49It's very similar to like the NFL model where eventually you're going to get to see
00:54the team that you like, even if you don't live in that city, end up playing.
00:57And so I think it's still fun.
01:01It doesn't have the zest that it had in the past when, you know,
01:05let's just say that you live anywhere in the country.
01:07There's a lot of Yankee fans we know everywhere.
01:09All the Yankees are coming to town.
01:10Well, the Yankees are coming to town now pretty much every other year, right?
01:13Like pretty much.
01:14Like if not every two or three years, which when interleague first started,
01:18it would be like once every four years.
01:19You'd look to see at the schedule who's on the schedule.
01:22But I still do think it is going to stay the way that it is now.
01:26The only thing that could happen in the future, Donnie, is you could see realignment.
01:29That I think is a possibility again, especially if they expand in a couple of years.
01:34And I do think baseball within the next five years will have two new teams in expansion.
01:39I mean, it's a crazy theory to think about of how like the American League and the National
01:42League did operate.
01:43It was like, you know, they hated each other.
01:44There was two separate commissioners of each league's year.
01:47And it was really important to win the All-Star game.
01:48And even growing up as a kid in the early 1990s, like, yes, I would watch Phillies baseball.
01:52But we used to also pick up, I think it was Channel 11 out of New York.
01:55And it was like a different world.
01:56Like, you watch the Yankees baseball with Scooter, you know, Rizzuto calling the games.
02:00Like, boy, I would love for Oakland to come to town.
02:02Now they come to town.
02:03It's a little bit worn out.
02:04But it is what it is at this point.
02:05And it was a very good thing at first because you got to see those American League teams that
02:09you didn't see.
02:09Now you see them all the time, as Craig points out.
02:11And the Phillies and the Mets felt like they played a hundred times a year.
02:14And I don't play so much.
02:15Why?
02:16Because you have to play the American League teams here.
02:17I don't play so much.
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