<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b5d5945-ffdc-4727-8a7b-40e4b856041c/C43C1A4D-C0C6-46BC-A6EA-6810C02C5C61/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn" href="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn" style="font-size: 11px;">sports.espn.go.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn">The Showalter Plan realigns as follows, with four divisions of seven teams each, arranged geographically to keep all divisions as much within the same time zone as possible -- another simple, common-sense idea. Gee, how novel. Here it is: <P></p> <TABLE cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" width="100%" class="tablehead widetable"><TBODY><TR class="stathead"><TD colspan="4">Buck Showalter Realignment Plan</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="colhead"><TD>Babe Ruth Division</TD><TD>Jackie Robinson Division</TD><TD>Roberto Clemente Division</TD><TD>Hank Aaron Division</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="oddrow"><TD>Yankees</TD><TD>Dodgers</TD><TD>Cubs</TD><TD>Royals</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="evenrow"><TD>Mets</TD><TD>Angels</TD><TD>White Sox</TD><TD>Cardinals</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="oddrow"><TD>Red Sox</TD><TD>Padres</TD><TD>Indians</TD><TD>Rangers</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="evenrow"><TD>Blue Jays</TD><TD>Mariners</TD><TD>Reds</TD><TD>Astros</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="oddrow"><TD>Orioles</TD><TD>Giants</TD><TD>Twins</TD><TD>Tigers</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="evenrow"><TD>Nationals</TD><TD>Diamondbacks</TD><TD>Brewers</TD><TD>Braves</TD></TR><TR valign="top" class="oddrow"><TD>Phillies</TD><TD>Athletics</TD><TD>Pirates</TD><TD>Rockies</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P></p> Here's the No. 1 goal -- integrity of schedule.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C43C1A4D-C0C6-46BC-A6EA-6810C02C5C61/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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