The Iinfluence of the Yomiuri Giants

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I've been thinking about the boorish way the Giants behave in NPB, and wondered if the Giants get away with it basically because the other teams let them get away with it. If they all got together and told the Giants to play by the rules or else, I suspect they could pull it off.

That said, if the Giants could persuade three or more teams to go with them (and their drawing power would provide a strong incentive), they could successfully secede and continue the way they have. But if all or maybe even all but one team held fast, the Giants couldn't create a new league in which at least half the players weren't below the level of the current NPB.

My question to those of you on the scene: are Japanese fans so enamored of the Giants they could keep such a league going for a couple of years until they could even out the talent level with NPB? If they couldn't, then either the current owners are spineless or they let the Giants behave that way by a "divide and conquer" strategy. If they could, I guess the other owners have little choice other than to give the Giants their way.

Jim Albright

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