If you were granted three wishes ...

novakjr · #1 01-24-2012, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

I actually prefer the mental aspect of a batter getting out of the box. It magnifies the suspense of the moment. Personally, there's nothing better than a mental battle between a pitcher and a batter.

majordanby · #2 01-26-2012, 11:23 PM

1.) No interleague play
2.) install the DH in both leagues or if you get rid of it, dont have pitchers hit
3.) instant replay, but not for balls and strikes

Jantz · #3 01-27-2012, 01:39 AM

#1 - All players, no matter what their position, gets paid at the end of the season according to their performance.

#2 - Mandatory testing for PEDs with zero tolerance! No 3-strike rule. Get caught once...your out!

#3 - Prohibit team owners from having monetary ties or investments in other venues that directly affect their team.

I may come off a bit harsh on #2, but I had to deal with PED users when I was a competitive powerlifter. My coach used to call it "Better lifting through modern chemistry".

Ironically at the same time I was typing this post there was a show on TV called American Underworld. The host started one of the segments saying "when you think of steriods, you think of this guy or this guy". On the screen they showed a bodybuilder and a baseball player. Sad but true.

Jantz

alanu · #4 01-28-2012, 01:59 AM

1-Get rid of the DH
2-Let Mark Cuban buy a team
3-For all players who used PED's to come clean with no ramifications... after all they are wishes

celoknob · #5 01-28-2012, 02:42 PM

1) No DH.

2) Make it more likely that small and mid-market teams can hold on to their home grown talent--players like Fielder and Votto. Don't know how to accomplish this legally or fairly would make the game much better.

3) Give World Series home field advantage to the league that has the best won-loss record in interleague games compiled over the course of the season--not the arbitrary victor of the all star game.

3b) Allow pitchers to throw at batters who gaze wonderously in amazemant at their own home runs and flip their bats at the plate. I guess I don't really believe this but I sure hate it.

matty6 · #6 02-06-2012, 12:13 PM

1. Alter the stupid rule that says a batter/runner is out who interferes with a thrown ball while on the inside of the firstbase foul line! THAT'S WHERE FIRST BASE IS! (They can fix this by extending first base into foul territory)

2. Charge a sacrifice to a batter who grounds out behind a runner on second with no outs, moving the runner to third, or who allows a runner to tag up from first to second or second to third with a fly ball and no outs.

3. Let Joe Jackson in the Hall, simply because it was a "lifetime" ban, and...ummmm...he's dead.

BleedinBlue · #7 02-06-2012, 03:48 PM

1. Put in an NFL style salary system. No guaranteed contracts, hard salary cap, salary floor, franchise tags, etc. Anybody watch the NFL this year? It's working.
2. Full revenue sharing. Necessary for #1 to work. Also an NFL staple.
3. The DH has got to go. Make managers actually manage a ballgame.

alanu · #8 02-28-2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by celoknob

3b) Allow pitchers to throw at batters who gaze wonderously in amazemant at their own home runs and flip their bats at the plate. I guess I don't really believe this but I sure hate it.

Along with this rule you could allow batters to charge the mound when pitchers (especially the relievers) overcelebrate their strikeouts...

bosoxfan · #9 02-28-2012, 08:14 AM

A salary minimum and a salary cap.

Batters allowed to step out of the box only one time during an at bat

speed the pitchers up when the bases are empty by enforcing time rule

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