Many well thought out opinions, most of which I whole heartedly agree with.

My two cents:

I would like to see the playoffs start earlier and end earlier. With the extra round of playoffs because of the additional round it is getting too late in the year to play in some areas. Weather is too much a factor in late October.

I want to see the Hall Of Fame voting process revamped. Any system that has Ozzie Smith in and Alan Trammell out is not a system that is working properly.

I think it’s a real nice treat for the fans to get to see some of the teams from different leagues. But, would be an even bigger treat if they could see 1st hand in person how exactly the game differs from league to league. Either way, the teams are playing the same number of interleague games home and away, so no team has an advantage either way.

And a score by Datsyuk, 2-1 Wings. Sorry, watching and typing at the same time.

If KC doesn’t want to pay the bonus that a #1 pick can command, they should be able to trade down instead of taking a second-tier guy with the first pick.

E vs C
C: 24 E: 22 looks like a relatively even matchup(The royals have brought that down considerable however)

C vs W
C: 16 W:12

Just for comparison:

E vs W
E: 16 W: 15

The way it is now we play 4 teams for about 6 series apiece (AL Central), 4 more teams 3 series apiece (AL West), and 4 more teams 2 series apiece (AL East) plus 6 series of interleague games.

This schedule while creating rivalries can dilute a acutal good team’s record or boost a mediocre team. It can hinder any team from getting to far ahead in the standings in a tough division like ours or help a mediocre team in a weaker division. Each team should play every other team the same # of times to get an accurate record.

Heck keep the leagues like they are, keep the divisions but play each team 12x (2 series at home and 2 on the road), that would be 156 games in the AL.

In the NL you could play 10 games against each team for 150 games. Or just start a third league and have each league have 14 teams total, because it fits nicely like that, or delete two teams from the NL.

There are a lot of ways to mess around…

2) Ditch the hold and the quality start (or at least make a quality start actually mean quality) along with the save.

3) Fairness dictates that if you are going to have a wild card, every team competing for the spot should play the same schedule. With the natural rivalry games, the Yankees have to play the Mets six games while the Orioles play the Nationals.

4) Play weekend World Series games in the afternoon. I struggle to get my kids to have my love of baseball because they can rarely stay up to watch the games with me.

5) Forbid Jose Mesa from entering any game with a lead or deficit of less than 8 runs.

1)Interleague game occurs
2)Two teams have the day off. (one from each league)

During the weekend, neither of the two options is really viable. The only way to do that would be to have teams play the same number of interleague games, but spread them out and not have every team play them at the same time.

Also, i guess i don’t understand, if you want each team to play each other 12 times, What is the point of even having divisions? The only time they would even come into play would be when it comes time to decide who would be in the playoffs. There should be some weighting to playing teams in your division, but not as much as their currently is.

Lets just say I don’t like to see baseball end.

I love baseball too, but the season is probably too long as it is. When playoff time comes, I want to see the best playing at their best. It’s hard to do that with numb fingers.

Okay, I stole that from a humor magazine a few years ago. Still makes me laugh though.

I’d like to see MLB move the Brew-crew back to the AL and stick ‘em in the West.

That way you would have each league with 3 divisions, and 5 teams in each division. Then have each team play each other 12x (2 three game series at home and 2 on the road) so basically make it a 168 game schedule (NO 2 game series).

I also wish they would use defensive statistics like Bill James uses to in part determine gold glovers.

Also both leagues should use a DH.

I also agree with Adam on this point

“4) Computerized strike zone. Strike zones vary from ump to ump, inning to inning, batter to batter, and pitcher to pitcher. Also allow instant replay similar to the NFL for all other plays.”

BUT NO NO NO SALARY CAP it would ruin baseball more than free agency has.

Also I think they should alter the playoff system,

IF the system I mentioned above was instated then I say have 6 playoff teams the winner of each division, and the two remaining teams with the best records, then seed each team with #1 and #2 receiving byes their first round. And make it 3 games for the first round, 5 for the second round, 7 for the ALCS and 9 for the WS. Also the WS in my opinion should begin as close to the begining of November as possible.

Lets just say I don’t like to see baseball end.