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This is sort of a spin-off of Penwing's post. But in this one,say what you would change in baseball.
I'd put sort of a shot clock on the pitchers and limit the times the batter can foul the ball.
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I wonder if extra inning games should be eliminated. Maybe just have ties except for in the post season.
I'd really like to see the season shortened by 20 games. It worked in '95. And have double-headers eliminated. It would make for a better, quality season IMO.
I'd like to see MLB follow the NBA's example of fining and suspending any player who leaves the bench when there's an altercation. You get the whole team involved and it can delay a game up to 15-20 minutes. And players not even involved in the game suddenly get an ACL injury or something like that. Let the umpires handle it and the coaches. That's it. I guarantee docking a game's pay makes a player think twice. During the 70's the NBA had as many as 75 fights break out in a season. Now it's almost non-existent.
No more guaranteed contracts. It works in the NFL. Too many players sit back and rob their salary fromm their team after they get a guaranteed long term contract with a signing bonus.
And I'm not saying free agency should be eliminated, but there needs to be a way to encourage teams and players to stick with one another. Less player movement. Fans identify with the players on the team. When you have more than half the players changing on the roster every season it becomes difficult for the casual fan to identify with the home team. Look at the Yankees in their heyday. Guys like Ruth, Dimaggio, Mantle, Maris, Berra and others are long time Yankees. That's what makes fans all over the world identify with the Yankees. Pro sports in general needs to work in this direction, but the players union and player agents would never endorse this.
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I wonder if extra inning games should be eliminated. Maybe just have ties except for in the post season.
Fans hate ties. The NHL felt the need to eliminate them. Extra innings are what make baseball fun.
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I'd really like to see the season shortened by 20 games. It worked in '95. And have double-headers eliminated. It would make for a better, quality season IMO.
Make it 22. Or 32. Once you start playing over 100 games, it already becomes too much. I would rather have them play 130 games, with more teams in the playoffs. Maybe the top two teams in each division, and 2 wildcard teams in each conference. Then, have a best of 5 division series/wild card series to get four teams in the conference. Seed the teams according to record, and have a best of 5 semifinals. Then have a best of 7 penent series. Finally, have the best of 7 world series. Less season, more playoffs, and more excitement for the playoffs. Plus, it means the same big-spending teams won't necessarily be able to run away with the division every year.
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I'd like to see MLB follow the NBA's example of fining and suspending any player who leaves the bench when there's an altercation. You get the whole team involved and it can delay a game up to 15-20 minutes. And players not even involved in the game suddenly get an ACL injury or something like that. Let the umpires handle it and the coaches. That's it. I guarantee docking a game's pay makes a player think twice. During the 70's the NBA had as many as 75 fights break out in a season. Now it's almost non-existent.
I don't understand why players feel the need to clear the dugout. Anyone who leaves the dugout should be automatically suspended for the next game, fined an additional game's salary, and not be subject to appeal. If a player makes contact with someone from the other team after leaving the bench, the suspension/fine should double. If a player is a repeat offender, the punishment should double every time it happens in a season. If a team is a repeat offender, the team should be fined the total 25 man salary of that day, everytime even one player runs out of the dugout illegally.
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No more guaranteed contracts. It works in the NFL. Too many players sit back and rob their salary fromm their team after they get a guaranteed long term contract with a signing bonus.
And I'm not saying free agency should be eliminated, but there needs to be a way to encourage teams and players to stick with one another. Less player movement. Fans identify with the players on the team. When you have more than half the players changing on the roster every season it becomes difficult for the casual fan to identify with the home team. Look at the Yankees in their heyday. Guys like Ruth, Dimaggio, Mantle, Maris, Berra and others are long time Yankees. That's what makes fans all over the world identify with the Yankees. Pro sports in general needs to work in this direction, but the players union and player agents would never endorse this.
I doubt the players would ever eliminate the guaranteed contracts. After what the NHL just went through to get a salary cap, the NHLPA is lucky the owners didn't also demand an end to guaranteed contracts.
What baseball does need to do is set a $100 million hard cap, and a reasonable floor, maybe $25 million. I think they should take a good look at the cap the NHL just put into place. With the profits made by some teams (like the Yankees) under the new cap, revenue sharing would allow everyone to have at least a $40 million payroll, probably more. Maybe the floor should be $30 million?
Put a cap in place, with a rule that no player can make more than 20% the cap. That would limit contracts at $20 million. Also, include the one-time buyouts that the NHL instituted this summer to help teams get under the cap, and give them the room they need to sign a full 23-man roster.
The current system in baseball sucks. Soft caps are a joke. The players have gotten out of control. If a player wants the security of a long term contract, he should have to take a slight pay cut (like what's happening in the NHL).
I don't know if this would help teams stay together, but it would help teams keep their core together longer. A good team needs to have the same core for a decade to be able to really relate to the fans. The core should be about five players that the fans can count on to be there. At the same time, teams need to draft well, so that when they need to say goodbye to some of their core, they have a new young group ready to take over.
A hard cap tied to league wide revenue and a solid revenue sharing system is the way to go. If that means shutting down the league for an entire season when the the current deal expires, then that's what the owners should do. Fans have lost all respect for the players, it's time the league helped to bring the game back down to earth.
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Extra innings are what make baseball fun.
True, at this point it's a part of the game. But is it detrimental to the game when it extends to 1am? Or maybe into the next day? It's rare, but it happens.
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I would rather have them play 130 games, with more teams in the playoffs.
Bingo. This is what I was alluding towards. You can't really add more playoff games to a 162 game schedule. We'd probably start seeing "snow outs" if the season started to early or ended too late. But look at how the playoffs work for the NBA, NFL and NCAA. IMO, it would add excitement, and considering how the Yankees and Red Sox have been impossibly strong lately, it might be the only way Baltimore or Tampa can get to the playoffs.
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The current system in baseball sucks. Soft caps are a joke.
I just don't get how the players union gets away with what it does. Or why owners tolerate it. You wouldn't see Paul Allen let a Microsoft employee get away with what Koren Robinson did for three years on the Seahawks. What changed? Would Tom Hicks let one of his employees at his company go after a TV camerman on live TV? Yet he supports Kenny Rogers? I'll never get that.
All I'm asking for is less player movement. If a player opts for free agency, he should take a penalty of some sort, so we can see how serious he is. Bust him back down to rookie salary. The drawback with that is, a player might force a trade then and I have no idea how to prevent that. But the pride needs to return. The love of the game and not the "show me the money" approach. I think fans want to know that, for sure, Ichiro is a Mariner. Jeter is a Yankee. Eric Chavez is an Athletic. Jason Varitek is a Red Sox. That when they check the newspaper, that player is in that uniform. When you see players, especially All Stars, switching teams a lot, it only hurts the game.
I've been wondering if all fields should have the same dimensions. That would be interesting.
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I like that all fields are different. It gives meaning to "home field advantage." I think the NHL should do the same thing, within certain guidlines. Rinks should be built to promote the type of hockey that team plays. It works for baseball.
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