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Posted on 07/13/2011 3:14:20 PM PDT by EveningStar
How can we improve Major League Baseball?
I'm sure we all have our own ideas. Here are some of mine:
Come up with a realistic method of capping a team's payroll.Well, those are some of my suggestions. How about yours?
Eliminate inter-league play. If you want to watch the other league, use your TV.
Have only two divisions in each league. The top two teams in each division would play each other. The wild card would thus be eliminated.
The All-Star Game:
The winner of the All-Star Game would no longer determine the home field advantage in the World Series. Thus the All-Star game would no longer "count."Determining the home field advantage in the World Series would revert to the alternating mehod used before 2003. The American League would have the home field advantage during odd-numbered years and the National League would have the home field advantage during even-numbered years. Why not let the team with the best overall record get the home field advantage? Unlike the NBA, NFL, and NHL - these are two separate leagues.
Since the All-Star Game would no longer count, games that are tied after 9 innings would end in a tie. No more extra innings in an All-Star Game.
Get the National League to give the Designated Hitter rule a three year tryout. Most amateur leagues and most minor leagues use it.
Eliminate the Bus Selig White Liberal Guilt rules. Selig is another white lib who thinks it's still 1963.
The Dodgers retired Jackie Robinson's number 42 in 1972. Robinson was still alive and attended the ceremonies (he died later that year). Allow the other teams to use the number 42 again. Besides, 42 is Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
Eliminate Jackie Robinson Day. Please, Bud. Why not just rename Major League Baseball "Jackie Robinsonball"?
The Civil Rights Game? Are you kidding? The Jim Crow era is over. We don't need no stinkin' Civil Rights Game.
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Tired of baseball a LONG time ago. Just way to many activities out there that are more exciting to watch (or do).
Give each team 3 time-outs, and no more than 20 seconds between pitches without calling a time-out. Baseball is boring because the batter stops to scratch his cluster for 5 minutes between each pitch.
drop the price of beer fifty percent at the park, then they got everything just about right
Allow unlimited use of steroids and give everyone an asterisk.
Allow for much more contact at all bases without disciplinary action if someone gets KTFO.
Use modern technology (with multiple layers of triangulation) to determine balls and strikes.
If you want the DH throughout baseball, they should legalize steroid use because the whole point of the DH was so fans could watch roided-up has-beens who can’t field a position hit home runs.
Say, why don’t we have a three-year experiment where the American League does away with the DH? That sounds better to me.
Instead of the All-Star game, whichever league has the best record in inter-league play gets home field advantage for the World Series.
Eliminate the designated hitter. I have never understood why the pitcher doesn’t hit in the American League. Keep inter-league play, but change it to regional opponents. The AL East Plays the NL East ect. Get all umpires on the same page with the strike zone. Enforce it as it is written in the rule book, letters to the knees for both leagues. Other than that, leave the game alone.
If a batter gets 9 foul balls during a single at-bat, they can take a base as if it was a walk. But if they try to foul any of the balls in a bunt position (even once) instead of swinging away, they’re out after the 9 foul balls.
Get rid of the ridiculous rule where, after a warning to both sides, if a batter is hit by a pitch (or even if the ball is thrown inside) then the pitcher and the manager get ejected.
Drysdale, Marichal, Gibson and a host of others never would have made it under these rules.
Also, after the batter steps into the batters box for the first pitch, the pitcher can pitch at will. He does not have to wait for the batter to get back in the box again (unless there is a foul ball.) If the batter needs a break, call a time out, or cchange batters.
That being said, there is so little about modern baseball which is worthy of those traditions. 'Juiced' players pumped with medical enhancements (what is the difference between steroids and testosterone shots, and lasik to improve eyesight?).
It's even gotten to the point where our illustrious ruling elites believe their attention is needed (what the HELL is congress thinking, that THEY need to be involved with baseball issues. Oh yeah -- CAMERAS).
Want to improve baseball (or any major sport, for that matter)?
Eliminate live video broadcast through any media. Take it back to the roots.
Radio -- okay.
No TV. No 'streaming' digital. No live video. Period.
Sure, some great players would walk away because the money wouldn't be there.
Who needs 'em?
Sure, it's unrealistic. It won't happen. Too much money, too many 'fans' rights'.
Lotsa people would disagree. Okay. I respect that.
But since you opened the door . . . .
The pitcher may only throw over to first base once per at bat.
From umps to manager to players is there any major sport with more prima donnas than MLB?
Make the secondbaseman/shortstop actually have his foot on 2nd base with the ball in his possession during a potential double play.
Agreed.
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