Who Has the Advantage in Interleague Play?

Over the Monster found this 6/25/2008 on www.crawfishboxes.com [flag]

So I'm watching the Red Sox vs Diamondbacks game today(mainly because I turned on ESPN and was too lazy to change it) and they are talking about how the AL is owning the NL in interleague play this year. They said the split was something to the extent of 96 wins for the AL against 71 wins for the NL. In my opinion, interleague play is tilted in favor of the American League... ... [link]

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Interleague: a good idea?
Published 6/25/2008 by 0157H7 at Over the Monster
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