21 July 2010, 9:22 pm
Its a question all of us have inside, what would each of us do if we were given the chance to control Major League Baseball. BTW what would you do? Here's what I would do: 1. Make Inter league Play meaningful by having home-field advantage be based on which league wins the most games, instead of the all-star game deciding it. 2. Add two teams; One in the American League and One in the National League, and moving one of the existing NL teams move to the AL. In my mind, I would add teams in Montreal (NL) and in San Antonio (or another city) for the AL, while moving the Padres to the AL West. 3. Split up the 16 teams into FOUR different divisions, much like in the NFL and by the same names (East, West, North, South). Such as: AL East: Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Blue Jays AL North: White Sox, Twins, Indians, Tigers AL South: Royals, Rays, Rangers, and (in my case San Antonio) AL West: Mariners, Angels, A's, Padres NL East: Mets, Phillies, Expos, Nationals NL North: Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers, Reds NL South: Marlins, Astros, Braves, Pirates NL West: Rockies, Giants, Dodgers, D-Backs 4. New Postseason format: LDS would be a three game series 2-1 format, LCS would be made a five game series 2-2-1 format, and the World Series would remain 2-3-2 best of seven format with home field advantage given to league with best Interleague record. 5. Draft Picks can be traded to other teams. 6. Place a limit on alcohol drinks at 4 per attendee 7. Place a minimum on the seating capacity for stadiums to 38,000 and a limit on fence height at 12 feet. 8. Any suspended player or coach can attend the game, but must be in a luxury box and must be watched by a representative from MLB in order to not give or take signs from the game. 9. Any player suspended or accused of using HGH will not be allowed into the Hall of Fame and statistics of the player would be reduced by 30% from their career and would lose any awards given to the player and awarded to the runner-up (ex. Barry Bonds would then have 533 home runs under the new rule and would lose his MVP awards, and Roger Clemens would have 3,270 strikeouts as a result) Player would also be banned from attending any MLB game. (The rule would be named the Bonds rule) Alcohol limit: Person would have ticket hole punched by vendor, and person would have photo taken at register in order to prevent the person from using two tickets should they be in stadium with other people, no roaming beer vendors as well.... Read More »
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