Caucus cognoscenti casually toss around terms like "viability," "preference groups" and "realignment".
"There's going to be a lot of movement and realignment," he said.
"Only a major political shakeup and realignment is likely to change that.
Among the issues they have touched on are instant replay, the playoff structure, umpiring and realignment.
Owners had introduced interleague play and realignment, but nothing seemed to fully win back a soured fan base.
They emphasized that Congress needed to be reassured that "force planning and realignment proposals are realistic, workable and affordable".
At a moment of partisan upheaval and realignment, the future is not likely to belong to those who do little more than triangulate.
I conclude only that judicial review of base closing and realignment decisions is conceptually inconsistent with the innovative scheme enacted by Congress.
Perhaps, after a period of turbulence and realignment, a new two-party configuration will emerge and stable majority governments will return.
Here was a player who had looked physically diminished at the end of the 2014 World Cup, who appeared to have entered a period of adjustment and realignment, to have lost a little of his fearless youthful snap.
But after years of losses, deregulation and realignment, the four big banking groups are now being forced to abandon their one-size-fits-all business model and start differentiating themselves to revive their sagging fortunes.
