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A couple of weeks ago, baseball writer Tracy Ringolsby (whose big cowboy hat used to be a regular feature at the Big O when the Colorado Rockies were in town) did a piece for Baseball America on Major League Baseball’s pending expansion.

It was right there in black-and-white, a proposed eight-team North Division in a 32-team league: the Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays — and the Montreal Expos. (Out on the coast, Portland would be part of a new West Division.)

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It’s all part of a sensible realignment and a 156-game schedule, with each team playing six home and six away games against division rivals, meaning the reborn Expos would see the Red Sox, Yankees and the Blue Jays a dozen times a year. The regional structure would mean less travel time and a reduced environmental footprint, not to mention enough savings to make up for the six games each team would drop from its schedule.