Bud Selig lightheartedly talks MLB realignment

[March 22, 2010]  PHOENIX (AP) -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig admitted he has put his ideas for realignment on paper, but that's as far as it has gone thus far.

Selig spoke at Maryvale Baseball Park during a spring training game between the Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.

There have been reports in recent weeks that one of the subjects the 14-person special committee Selig designated four months ago was the idea of "floating realignment" in which teams would not be fixed to a division, but free to change divisions from year to year based on geography, payroll and their plans to contend or not.

The 75-year-old Selig wasn't ready to go that far with the possible concept just yet.

At the same time, Selig, who has been commissioner since 1998, said it will be looked at by the committee.

[Associated Press]

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