.....about baseball?

You are commisioner and have been given the power to change any aspect of the game. I'll give you two of mine:

 

1. Either both leagues use or do not use the DH. I don't care which it is, it just has to be the same for both leagues.

 

2. The dimensions of every park have to be the same. You can make the structure of the stadium however you want, but the distance to the outfield walls, the height of the walls etc have to be uniform.

Instead of playing games in Japan, they go to Australia instead. And it'd be the Yankees vs. White Sox.

I'd contract the Cubs.

NFL style salary system and drug testing system. There are also at least 4 teams that need to go.

I'd contract the Cubs.

And detonate Wrigley while you're at it.

NFL style salary system and drug testing system.  There are also at least 4 teams that need to go.

I'm gonna take a stab here.

Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, and 2 out of Kansas City, Milwaulkee or Cincinatti.

And detonate Wrigley while you're at it.

 

Nah ... It's gonna fall down on it's own.

I'm gonna take a stab here.

Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, and 2 out of Kansas City, Milwaulkee or Cincinatti.

 

Some surprises here. Tampa Bay, Minnesota, Oakland, and Florida.

 

3 of the 4 have winning teams and still can't draw fans. If the teams ever go bad, they won't draw more than 10K a night.

 

Tampa was just a huge mistake for a team. They either move to Orlando or fold that dump of a franchise.

They shoulda gotten rid of Minnesota and Montreal a few years back. There is no Montreal anymore, even though they are now Washington, but I hate the Twins and still am mad they weren't contracted.

They shoulda gotten rid of Minnesota and Montreal a few years back. There is no Montreal anymore, even though they are now Washington, but I hate the Twins and still am mad they weren't contracted.

 

Les Spos would have been #1 on my list, but now that they are in Washington, I would give them 5 years or so to see if the fan base is there or not. If they don't take they would be in my top 4 in place of the Marlins. Maybe that new stadium deal will pull them through.

I'd contract the Cubs.

i would have to agree with that one! other than that, i cant think of anything else that i would want to change, baseball IS the best sport ever.

Put the All-Star game at the end of the year in Hawaii, so we can get true All-Stars.

Instead of playing games in Japan, they go to Australia instead. And it'd be the Yankees vs. White Sox. 

 

Australia!? What the FU...

Add two more teams to the AL, and I wouldn't mind seeing franchises in Las Vegas, Portland, New Jersey, or somewhere in the Mid-South.

Put the All-Star game at the end of the year in Hawaii, so we can get true All-Stars.

 

Nah, I wouldn't touch the All-Star game. It is BY FAR the biggest AS event in sports. Nothing even comes close to it. The formula simply works by doing it in the middle of the year, and there is a great possibility of lost interests in done after.

Add two more teams to the AL, and I wouldn't mind seeing franchises in Las Vegas, Portland, New Jersey, or somewhere in the Mid-South.

No more teams, we need to be contracting teams not adding them.

Australia!? What the FU...

 

Yoda your lack of an avatar bothers me. I'm not sure why.

I'd make the steroid policies stricter First offense: 3 month suspension

Second offense: 5 years Third: See ya!

Nah, I wouldn't touch the All-Star game. It is BY FAR the biggest AS event in sports. Nothing even comes close to it. The formula simply works by doing it in the middle of the year, and there is a great possibility of lost interests in done after.

 

i agree.

baseball has the only all star game people watch anymore.

And if anyone argues with the NBA, your living in the past.

 

What'd i'd change is an NFL style salary system like ss said. The way baseball is now is just absolutely ridiculous. You can't have a team like the yankees and a team like the devil rays in the same league, let alone the same division.

I'd make the steroid policies stricter  First offense: 3 month suspension

Second offense: 5 years  Third: See ya!

 

Ha they'd basically be done after the 2nd offense, but I like that. The steroid policy should really be no mercy. I hate the fact that someone like Bonds/Giambi are still able to play like nothing ever happened.

What I would do was said by Hunter S. Thompson in a past Page 2 article...

 

http://www.dalecruse.com/weblogarchives/20...er_thompson.htm

 

ELIMINATE THE PITCHER: This will knock at least one hour off the length of a game, which is now up to 3:42. One World Series game took five hours and 20 minutes, which is unacceptable to everybody except the Pitchers. Yes. … So we will ELIMINATE THE PITCHERS, and they won’t be missed. Pitchers, as a group, are pampered little swine with too much money and no real effect on the game except to drag it out and interrupt the action.

 

LIMIT ALL GAMES TO THREE (3) HOURS: Like football and basketball and hockey, the Baseball game will end at a fixed time. THE SCORE, at that moment, WILL BE FINAL, based on an accumulation of TOTAL BASES IN 3 hours.

 

ALL BASE-RUNNERS MAY RUN TO ANY BASE (but not backward): — First to Third, Second to Home, etc. And with NO PITCHER in the game, this frantic scrambling across the infield will be Feasible and Tempting.

 

ALL “PITCHING”, by the way, will be done by a fine-tuned PITCHING MACHINE that pops up out of the mound, delivers a remote-controlled “pitch” at the batter, and then drops back out of sight, to free up the whole infield for running. … If a batter hits a home run with the bases loaded, for instance, his team will score 16 total bases (or 16 points). But, if it’s 3 up and 3 down in an inning, that team will score Zero points.

 

Think of 22-5, perhaps, or 88-55. Yes sir, we will have Huge scores and constant speedy action for three straight hours.

 

The heroes of the game will be CATCHERS, not Pitchers. The CATCHER will dominate the game and be the highest-paid player. … With no Pitcher and no Mound to disrupt the flow, runners on base will be moving at the crack of the bat, and it will be the catcher’s job to shut them down or pick them off whenever possible. Foot-speed and a bazooka throwing arm will be paramount. … There will be no more of this bull about Bullpens and Managers scratching their heads on TV for hours on end, no more lame pick-off throws to first, no more waving off signs and agonized close-ups while pop fouls bounce off the roof.

 

No, there will be no such thing as a base on balls. Each batter will get five “pitches” from the robot — only FIVE (5) and if he doesn’t get a hit by then, he is Out. … And the CATCHER will control the kind of drop or curve or speed he wants the machine to throw. And it will obey.

 

Those damn pitching machines can put a Slider past you at 98 miles an hour five times in a row, with no problem. They can throw hideous wavering knuckleballs and half-moon curves — all depending and according to what the CATCHER wants to dial up on his remote-control unit. He can even order that the batter be whacked in the ribs by a 102-mph fastball, although that will cost his team TWO (2) bases, instead of one. And you won’t want to have some poor Cuban drilled in the ribs when you’re nursing a 31-30 lead.

 

OK, folks, that’s it for now. I am already late, and I have written too many words — but the Concept is sound, I think, and there is a clear and desperate Need for it. …

 

Next spring ESPN will put my theories to the test by sponsoring a series of “New Rules” baseball games in New York, Chicago, Omaha and Seattle, among others. …Tickets will be sold and big-time sports talent will be employed. The success or failure of these Games will determine the fate of Baseball in America.

 

Purists will b**** and whine, but so what? Purists will Always b**** and whine. That is their function. Res Ipsa Loquitor.

 

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what he said.

1. Make all the players play in shorts...

Some surprises here.  Tampa Bay, Minnesota, Oakland, and Florida. 

 

3 of the 4 have winning teams and still can't draw fans.  If the teams ever go bad, they won't draw more than 10K a night. 

 

Tampa was just a huge mistake for a team.  They either move to Orlando or fold that dump of a franchise.

I don't want Tampa to move to Orlando, otherwise my Magic won't be getting a new arena.

 

Oakland could move to San Jose, although the Giants would cry foul. Maybe they could be the team to move to Las Vegas possibly? Florida I think deserve a chance to get their new arena going, and see how they do.

The one thing I would do is move the Blue Jays to Las Vegas...

There are too many teams in the AL East and not enough in the AL West...

Plus Canada has proven they don't deserve a baseball team.