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To: JohnBrowdie

no DH. no artificial turf. no wild card. no unbalanced schedule. no interleague play.


To that, I would add, let’s trim back the regular season so that we don’t have November baseball. This year, the World Series will end in November.

I enjoy baseball but the season is too long, what with all these layers of playoffs, and they end up playing the most important games of the year in bad baseball weather sometimes. Bad weather which could be avoided if they simply slice a few weeks off the calendar.


37 posted on 07/26/2015 7:40:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I'd like to see a regular season of 150 games, with each team required to have a minimum of six scheduled doubleheaders. That should get the regular season over by early September, and the World Series finished by mid-October at the very latest.

And while we're talking about rule changes that would have a positive impact on the game, I'd like to see MLB implement an active/inactive roster arrangement similar to what you have in the NFL, NHL, etc. Each team can dress 24 players for a game, but would have the ability to have 2-3 extra roster positions for players that can be de-activated for each game. This would eliminate a few of the wasted roster spaces held by players who will never appear in a game (typically the other starting pitchers in the rotation).

45 posted on 07/26/2015 10:16:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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