MLB might be looking into doing away with AL/NL

[Droford]

From Ben Maller's show right now via his website that had the link to the WSJ article

In the mid-1990s, after Major League Baseball had decided to experiment with games between teams in the National and American Leagues, then-Boston Red Sox Chief Executive John Harrington and a handful of colleagues started batting around some radical ideas. What was the point of having American and National leagues anyway, they wondered. Wouldn't it be more fair to have all baseball teams compete against one another all season, without concern for geography or obsolete contrivances that date to the 19th century? "We talked about if interleague play was successful we could do that," says Mr. Harrington, who led Commissioner Bud Selig's committee on realignment in the 1990s. "We could just meld 30 teams into one big blob of a league and have them go at it." From a standpoint of fairness, Mr. Harrington's idea looks better all the time. The American League is clearly the stronger of the two, based on interleague records and the differences in performance of players who jump from one league to the other. Since interleague play began in 1997, AL teams have won eight of 13 World Series and 12 All-Star Games (there was a tie in 2002). They have compiled a .566 winning percentage against NL clubs over the past five years. Now that Mr. Selig has blurred the line between the two leagues—he's abolished their separate league offices and umpiring crews—the time may be ripe to go all the way.

I personally think it would be dumb to do away with the AL/NL divisions.

I definitely do see them moving towards having the DH in the NL though if the All Star Game rule change is any indication.