Potential Inter-league scheduling ideas

Based on reports, it looks like major league baseball will go into the 2013 season with inter-league play happening during every series of the season.  Many people are confused and don’t know how the schedule will work.  Here is my opinion of how the inter-league schedule should work.

First, each team should play 18 games against the opposite league.  This is consistent with the current schedule for all AL teams and several NL teams.  Each division would play all teams in a designated division in the opposite league on a rotating, three-year basis.  Here is how the divisional match-ups would look:

Year Divisions Play	NL East	NL Central	NL West
AL East	2013	2015	2014
AL Central	2014	2013	2015
AL West	2015	2014	2013

Based on this table, each AL East team would play each NL East team in 2013.  Teams would play three of the teams at home and two of the teams on the road, or vice versa.  There would also be one “rivalry” series that takes place every year based on geographic or historic match-ups.  Those match-ups would be as follows:

AL Rival	NL Rival	AL Rival	NL Rival	AL Rival	NL Rival
NY Yankees	NY Mets	Kan City	St. Louis	Toronto	Pittsburgh
Chic WSox	Chic Cubs	Minnesota	Milwaukee	Detroit	Philadelphia
LA Angels	LA Dodgers	Seattle	San Diego	Texas	Colorado
Tampa Bay	Miami	Boston	Atlanta	Houston	Arizona
Oakland	San Fran	Baltimore	Washington	Cleveland	Cincinnati

Each match-up would take place on a rotating basis, with one team being at home one season and the other at home on the following year.  On seasons when the team is playing their opponent’s division, both teams would have a home series. 

Could this system work for inter-league play?  If not, what suggestions would you have to improve the schedule starting in 2013?