If you were granted three wishes ...

[Chris Counts]

If you had the power to make three changes to major league baseball, what would they be? Here's my three, in no particular order ...

1) Get rid of the DH
2) Get rid of Bud Selig
3) Get rid of the broadcasting team of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver

Now that feels better! I needed to rant after McCarver got the Frick award and Bud got his extension. I'm afraid that when Bud dies, they'll freeze his head like Ted Williams' and they'll give him another extension. Amazingly, if that happens, nobody will notice a difference in his job performance ...

[Ease]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

I'm afraid that when Bud dies, they'll freeze his head like Ted Williams' and they'll give him another extension. Amazingly, if that happens, nobody will notice a difference in his job performance ...

That's outstanding! Lmao!

1. Failed steriod/testosterone test=season long ban. and I mean ONE positive, there are zero excuses nowadays.
2. Some type of salary cap.
3. More inner city programs and development.

[bigtrain]

Chris, I would say your three changes but in reverse order.

[RichardSimon]

1- Get rid of the DH.
2- Eliminate the DH.
3- Do away with the DH.

I would compare the designated hitter to a designated free throw shooter in basketball.

[dstraate]

Nice.

I'm in full agreement about the DH, so let me just throw out a few more.

1. Make spring training a Barnstorming Nationwide Secondary City/Capitol Tour

Brewers/Twins in Madison, Marlins/Braves in Tallahassee, etc

2. The first 12 times Zambrano takes the batter's box this year, everybody calls in a closer to put a 4-seamer between his shoulder blades

3. Instead of McCarver and Buck, All ESPN broadcasts are done by Howard Stern and Drunk Rick Sutcliffe

[Runscott]

1) tie: no jewelry/beer price cap
2) let the pitchers retaliate (brush-backs ala Gibson,Drysdale)
3) genuine salary cap without the Yankee loophole

[Exhibitman]

1. Forbid the utilization of close-up reaction shots in the dugout and stands when filming MLB games;

2. Require at least 75% of all baseball telecast time be devoted to showing the game in a manner that depicts at least 20% of the field in the shot; and

3. Require that any MLB player caught using PEDs, abusing drugs, sending pics of his junk to groupies, wearing bling worth more than the average house in the city where he plays, patronizing ho's, abusing fans, or otherwise behaving like a spoiled brat instead of a man lucky to be getting rich playing baseball be sent to Cleveland for a week where he gets to work as a bathroom attendant at the IX Center during the National.

[Jayworld]

1. Eliminate all jewelry (both metal and the new-style interwoven corded necklaces, etc.) of any type or kind.

2. No more pajama pants. All pants will extend no lower than mid-calf and all players will be "uniform" in appearance by wearing team issued stirrups and sanitary stockings.

3. Eliminate the DH completely

[Orioles1954]

1.) Salary cap and salary floor.
2.) Eliminate interleague play.
3.) Balanced schedule in divisions.

[travrosty]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

1. Forbid the utilization of close-up reaction shots in the dugout and stands when filming MLB games;

2. Require at least 75% of all baseball telecast time be devoted to showing the game in a manner that depicts at least 20% of the field in the shot; and

3. Require that any MLB player caught using PEDs, abusing drugs, sending pics of his junk to groupies, wearing bling worth more than the average house in the city where he plays, patronizing ho's, abusing fans, or otherwise behaving like a spoiled brat instead of a man lucky to be getting rich playing baseball be sent to Cleveland for a week where he gets to work as a bathroom attendant at the IX Center during the National.

i would normally agree with you but that bathroom duty is just cruel and inhumane. They didn't kill anybody.

[UOFLfan7]

1) Louisville Cardinals to win ten straight NCAA championships.
2) Chicago Cubs to finally win a World Series.
3) Chicago Bulls to win five straight NBA championships.

[vintagebrett]

1) Speed up game between pitches - use Mark Buehrle as a standard
2) All World Series / Playoff games start no later than 7:05 ET
3) All-Star game to be played with equipment from a different era - select a different time frame each year and outfit players in uni's and equipment.

[travrosty]

ball blows up in pitchers hand if he takes too long.