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If You were baseball Commisionar ?

If you were the commissionar of baseball what changes would you make?
My couple of changes;
1.Both leaugues use dh
2.WS games on week-ends star at (4) PM ET
3.More Sunday doubleheaders to shorten season
4.Start season mid April, end earlier in Sept.

What are your moves?
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absolutely NO steroids...period

Salary caps for players and teams

uniformity of uniform

no contract talks while the World Series is in play...

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3 months ago
I hate all the night games.

1. Baseball is an afternoon game. I'd make all weekend and holiday games played in the afternoon. Screw Fox Sports and their demand for dominance when they're covering a game. I remember twilight double headers. Lets bring them back.

2. I'd get rid of the blackout law that keeps us out of state fans from seeing our home team play. I subscribe to MLB-TV but that does not, as MLB states, allow me "to watch every out of market game" my team plays, unless I want to watch it the next day, in some cases.

3. I would not allow a rain delay to last longer than 1-1/2 hours.

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3 months ago
I agree no steriods of any kind. I also hear they use uppers for energy. I'd ban that also.
I like a salary cap, as long as there's a minimum cap. That's why I don't like all this money the Yankees have to pay every year to these other teams. They don't take the money an inveset in players.
I also have MLB extra inninings and still get blacked out some time. If your paying for it, you should get all the games.
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3 months ago
I totally agree with DH for both leagues.
I think we should beable to choose which FOX netwoek we go with*as soon as they got central here they took away my eastern* and not have to spend a few hundred to catch all our games.
Swittch off our interleague play some but keep playing our neigbor league *always exciting*
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3 months ago
I hate to tbe the spoilsport in this discussion,BUT:

1. Attendance $$$$$$ dictates no doubleheaders, length of seaon and a few other things mentioned. So we can kiss this stuff goodbye!

I think if I were "The Commish" I would make the World Series a real World Series and compete with Asian and Latin American countries in a REAL World series!
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3 months ago
I'd get Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame.

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3 months ago
Now I have to agree with that...Pete Rose never used steroids and he is one of the best players of his time. They can put an asterisk by his name, say, for unsportsman-like conduct.

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3 months ago