I’d like to see the length of season reduced by 2-3 weeks so that we have a later start and earlier finish. This could be accomplished by reducing the schedule to 154 games and/or reintroducing scheduled doubleheaders. Playing baseball in Philly in November is ridiculous, and it isn’t much better when the season starts. Obviously other cities are much worse in terms of climate.
Yes, they should go back to a 154 game season.
The season should not start before April 15th, so they can have a better chance of avoiding cold spring weather.
They should play Sunday doubleheaders sometimes, as was common in the past.
They should play doubleheaders on Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Labor Day.
They should eliminate most of the off days during the playoffs.
The regular season should end by Sept. 20th so that the World Series can end by about Oct. 15th, and avoid the coming of cold weather in fall.
All players named to the All-Star team should be required to attend the game.
They should change how tickets are sold. I understand that many teams sell most of their tickets as season tickets, which in turn are sold on sites such as Stub Hub. This artificially restricts the number of tickets available for the walk up crowd. You can build more of a fan base if people can go to a game on the spur of the moment, if more walk up tickets were available.
They should ban all the super loud rock and roll music from the ballparks. Bring back the old fashioned organ music. Some of the music is so loud you can’t talk to your friends who came to the game with you. And some of it is actually rap, which should be banned just because it’s rap.
And I agree with suggestions to speed up games. The average length of a game is about three hours now, isn’t it? That’s too long for a nine inning game, unless it’s a slugfest.
And on TV, just show us the game. Remove the clutter from the screen, especially advertising crawls for another show on the same channel on another day.