View Full Version : How Should Major League Baseball Be Run?


TMC
10-29-2009, 04:10 AM
In other words, if you were the commissioner, what would you do to try to improve MLB? How would you address the following issues:
Postseason scheduling (in relation to start times)

Instant replay

Expansion and contraction

Interleague Play

World Series home field advatange (for example, should MLB continue with the stipulation that the winning league of the All-Star Game get home field advantage in the World Series)

Division Series (should the League Division Series be expanded to a best-of-seven series)

Length of the regular season (and the effects on the postseason)

Competitive balance

I don't want to go into the steroid/performance enhancing drugs issue because to me, that has really become played out.

Waterston_Fan
10-29-2009, 11:18 AM
Yankees and Red Sox need to give the Padres more money so they can get more FA!!!

Git it done, KT--er... um... :confused:

James
10-29-2009, 01:13 PM
Don't let "Big Television" dictate schedules! That has all but abolished the tradition of the Cincinnati Reds opening the season by playing the first ballgame of the year ... at home, at that. I also remember reading in the book Marge Schott Unleashed that CBS moved the start of the game back against Mrs. Schott's wishes, and she got all upset because of how it inconvenienced the fans! She argued for like 30 minutes, but "Big CBS" stubbornly, if not greedily, wouldn't budge! See page 276 for more information.

Darren J.
10-29-2009, 03:07 PM
-Division Series 4 out of 7
-Regular season ends August 31
-Playoffs are only in September
-Increase number of playoff teams from 8 to 16. That's 8 in each league: 1-3 are for division winners, 4-8 are Wildcards
-Home field goes by record in any series

MrCleveland
10-29-2009, 03:57 PM
Let there be 32 teams, have it be a 4 Division, the two new teams should be San Juan and Mexico City since Mexico and Puerto Rico have a baseball following.

And move teams that have good markets and if the marketing is bad there, get the owner of the teams 3 years to have the team have a winning season...or let them go!