Improving Major League Baseball

[EveningStar]

How can we improve Major League Baseball?

I'm sure we all have our own ideas. Here are some of mine:

Come up with a realistic method of capping a team's payroll.

Eliminate inter-league play. If you want to watch the other league, use your TV.

Have only two divisions in each league. The top two teams in each division would play each other. The wild card would thus be eliminated.

The All-Star Game:

The winner of the All-Star Game would no longer determine the home field advantage in the World Series. Thus the All-Star game would no longer "count."

Since the All-Star Game would no longer count, games that are tied after 9 innings would end in a tie. No more extra innings in an All-Star Game.

Determining the home field advantage in the World Series would revert to the alternating mehod used before 2003. The American League would have the home field advantage during odd-numbered years and the National League would have the home field advantage during even-numbered years. Why not let the team with the best overall record get the home field advantage? Unlike the NBA, NFL, and NHL - these are two separate leagues.

Get the National League to give the Designated Hitter rule a three year tryout. Most amateur leagues and most minor leagues use it.

Eliminate the Bus Selig White Liberal Guilt rules. Selig is another white lib who thinks it's still 1963.

The Dodgers retired Jackie Robinson's number 42 in 1972. Robinson was still alive and attended the ceremonies (he died later that year). Allow the other teams to use the number 42 again. Besides, 42 is Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.

Eliminate Jackie Robinson Day. Please, Bud. Why not just rename Major League Baseball "Jackie Robinsonball"?

The Civil Rights Game? Are you kidding? The Jim Crow era is over. We don't need no stinkin' Civil Rights Game.

Well, those are some of my suggestions. How about yours?

[Osage Orange]

You are correct....

And I stand corrected.

Traditions have been broken in the past...and will be broken in the future.

[ConservativeStatement]

It would be a radical realignment (based on geography) and very unlikely to be passed. I know there is a thought that in some places/areas that have both AL and NL (ex. NY, LA Chicago, Bay area) that every team comes to town in the current format. IIRC, there will be added PO teams coming in a year or two.