If you were granted three wishes ...

[39special]

Get rid of the DH
Do away with day/night doubleheaders
Have more day games

[FUBAR]

1. get rid of the DH
2. Put Pete Rose into the HOF
3. do away with the whole PED suspensions. If these guys are dumb enough to take them and ruin their life for my entertainment, so be it.

Don't imagine my suggestions will go over well with some, but it is all in good fun to dream.

[autograf]

1. Instead of a single DH, go to a 3 DH system where the 1,5 and 9 batters are DH's.
2. Allow DH's to play till 55. Why should they be put out to pasture because they can't play anymore. Corporate America allows it........
3. Only DH's should be allowed to take PED's. AND HGH.



Okay.....seriously.....
1. Ditch the DH (low hanging fruit)
2. Actually re-evaluate 19th and early 20th century guys for the HOF. If Alomar's in, so is Pete Browning and some other guys. And Rose.........
3. Do something about escalating salaries....I like the more incentives and less direct salary route.

[36GoudeyMan]

1. Any team with a record better than another division's winner is automatically in the playoffs, even if that means playoffs with 4 rounds. No more 90-62 3rd place teams being out of the playoffs yet a division winner at 83-79 gets in.

2. Either both leagues get the DH or neither do. Having only one league with the DH is ridiculous, as is the DH itself; but since it prolongs some stars' careers, to the glee of some of their fans, so
be it. Just all or none, please.

3. Either you throw out the HOFers who were slobs, pigs, racists, rapists, drunks, drug addicts, whore-mongers, gun-runners, unrepentant gamblers, etc., or you let in Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose today.

[howard38]

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[novakjr]

1)2 divisions and 2 wildcards per league. Not this 3 division, 2 WC with a 1 game playoff crap.
2)some sort of salary cap, plus a DH(or no DH, I'm fine either way) in both leagues to level the playing field across the board.
3)less BS from the Dominican Republic. If they can't figure out how to keep their players honest, they we might just have to stop taking 'em..I'd rather pay an American born player, who is who he says he is, than some random guy, who in turn gives a portion of the money to the family he's borrowing the name from.

[pgellis]

1. DO NOT let batters keep stepping out of the batters box all the time. I can't stand that. Unless there is a legitimate reason. This stepping out to tighten your batter's glove and spit (David Ortiz) drives me nuts. If a batter steps out of the box without permission FIRST, then it is an automatic strike. That will end all that goofy crap between every single pitch.

2. Hard salary cap.

3. Start east coast night games at 7:00pm for all regular season games. Can't stay up that late anymore.

[dabigyankeeman]

1) Pitcher must throw ball within 14 seconds
2) Batter must not leave batters box to walk around and play with his glove
3) Use a camera behind home plate instead of in centerfield most of the time to show the game on tv.

[carrigansghost]

The current rule is 12 seconds with no runners on base, I think it is in rule 8.1

Rawn

[Brendan]

Originally Posted by carrigansghost

The current rule is 12 seconds with no runners on base, I think it is in rule 8.1

Rawn

Jaywalking is illegal.


Here's my three

1. Get rid of revenue sharing, luxury tax, etc.- it just allows teams like the A's or Royals to put up horrible teams every year and make money. The owners of teams such as the Yankees or Red Sox don't have more money than everybody else. They just spend more while a lot of the other owners just keep it in their pockets while racking in dough from the teams that are actually trying to win.

2. Get rid of instant replay for homeruns. Don't ever consider using it for homeruns or any other purpose.

3. Have the National League use the DH and stop building such big ballparks. Playing in big ballparks saves money as a result of the hitters' numbers not being as good. The difference is not replaced by the improved pitching stats. As far as the DH, too many pitchers get hurt hitting and too little runs are scored in the NL. I can understand pitchers hitting when they were getting paid $5,000 a year, but in modern day baseball when an injury to a pitcher can mean multi-million dollar losses it just doesn't make sense for pitchers to hit.

[AgonyandIvy]

NL adopt the DH.
All new stadiums have a retractable roof ( and put one on the old ones too).
Get rid of Bucky McCarver.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by AgonyandIvy

NL adopt the DH.
All new stadiums have a retractable roof ( and put one on the old ones too).
Get rid of Bucky McCarver.

I'm trying to imagine just how they'd put one on Fenway. Short of building a retractable roof around the stadium I'm not seeing it. And the supports would take up everything for some distance, at least across Lansdown and all the surrounding streets. I don't see us ever going for that.

Just hire ballplayers that aren't too wussy to play on cool overcast days. That's usually much cheaper.

My 3?
1) All games on real grass outdoors.
2) Less whining about pitchers throwing inside especially if the batter has been showboating. And even if the pitch hits them.
3) Some incentive for players to stay with a team. AND for teams to keep players. I totally understand when a guy leaves because the current team will only pay 2 million a year but someone else will pay 10. But I also don't like it when good players are simply cut and have to sign a minor league deal because they're up for arbitration.

Steve B

[tiger8mush]

DH - I like the NL in theory (more of a "pure" game), but am drawn to the excitement (better hitting?) of the AL. So its good having two different leagues w/slightly different rules.

my three wishes:

1)I like the idea of a hard "pitch clock", similar to the nba having a "shot clock". Make it 20 seconds total. It starts on the umps signal. The batter has 10 seconds to stand in the box. The pitcher must release the ball between seconds 10 and 20. If the ball is not released by the 20th second (ball out of hand) its automatically a ball is awarded to the batter.

2) Do SOMETHING about ticket prices. Sure, I understand the Yankees and Sox having high prices, but they sell out every game. But look at some of the other games on tv. Stadiums are EMPTY. They charge $25 to sit in the freakin bleachers! How about they charge $10 so the average family can afford to go to a dozen games a year? Attendance would be up, would sell more jerseys & food at stadiums, etc. I don't think MLB would lose money.

3) Yankee Stadium and Camden Yards (Orioles) allow patrons to bring in food & drinks. Every stadium should allow this!

4) More day games!!!!!

Many more requests, but these are the first three (okay, 4) that come to mind

[dabigyankeeman]

Originally Posted by carrigansghost

The current rule is 12 seconds with no runners on base, I think it is in rule 8.1

Rawn

I like that, but they dont enforce it. Thats why i say make it 14 seconds and enforce it.