1) No DH. The pitchers should have to face the other side’s pitchers. Will cut down on HBP. Take a couple of 95 MPH cutters in on the hands and they’ll think twice about drilling the other guy.
2) Raise the level of the Pitcher’s Mound to where it was. Lowering it was a stupid move to increase hitting, and it failed. Go back. Help save the pitchers’ rotator cuffs.
3) No juicing. Caught once and you’re out of baseball forever. Period. No such thing as rehab for these highly-paid performers.
4) SEVERE penalties for cheating. Pitcher caught with an emery board? Using a corked bat? Out for the rest of the season, and no pay. Death penalty for spitballs.
5) Fine Umpires that blow more than 3 calls in a game. If not a fine, punish in some other way, and make it public so we can all see there was retribution. I’d settle for flogging in stocks. Drawing and quartering may be applicable in playoffs. If it blows a perfect game, as it did for Detroit last year, then firing squad may be sufficient. Right after the Pitcher’s immediate family finish having their way with the Umpire in question.
6) Don’t even THINK about going to aluminum bats. It would destroy the ambiance of the game to hear “clink!” instead of “crack!” In fact, get the Al bats out of college baseball (another rant).
7) Offer a significant cash prize to any fan that catches a ball out of play. It will improve the odds somebody will swan song off the upper deck, thus more entertainment. And no safety nets. That would defeat the purpose. If you are drunk enough to jump, you are drunk enough to die.
I have more, but this may be enough...
Is MLB really considering aluminum ‘bats’? Oh noes, shoot me now. At least wait til after I’m dead!