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By Evan Bleier When Major League Baseball switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000 next season, every team in baseball will play every other team in baseball at least once for the first time in history. The switch, while cool, will have some consequences as intradivision games will drop from 47% to 32% which means fewer matchups between longtime rivals like the Yankees and Red Sox and Giants and Dodgers. But, given that MLB is trying to attract younger fans and it’s fair to question how much of them actually care about historic rivalries, perhaps making a switch like this will actual…