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well, it is completely impossible in any major US sport - baseball is the only one with a true multi-tiered structure, and that's the sport least conducive to this sort of thing, because of the relations between farm teams and the big-league counterparts. If you move the Tigers, say, to AAA, then move up the Columbus Clippers, what happens when the Yankees need a player? Can they just call "up" a player from a team in the same league? After all, they own the rights to that player . . .
Besides, it doesn't fix the problems associated with losing - if anything, it would drive fans away to have a AAA team instead of having the Yankees et al coming in for 2 series a season.
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