Even though We All Love Baseball. What Is the One thing You Wish You Can Change..or Fix?

Question

for me its all the owners who are in it for the money

like george steinbrenner spends the money cuz he does not want to lose and wants to win the WS every year

like the yankees are paying half there salary in luxery tax and small market teams do have the money to spend the owners just dont want to digg into there pockets and spend it

so if you could change anything what would it be

*Please star*

they wanted it in Arts>philosphy

Answer 1

Well I would also want it to be all the owners...basically what you said but also the fact that the All Star Game determines home field advantage in the World Series. But the problem with that is that what else could determine it?

Answer 2

in order:

1. instant replay is needed. there are errors that we all see immediately after the play as errors on television. why can't umps do the same? obviously this would not be applicable for balls and strikes.

2. the all star game deciding home field is ridiculous. especially if there is a rule that all teams are represented by a player. can some please explain to me why a washington national was on a team playing for the NL's home field advantage in the world series?

...no offense to the nationals intended- i'm actually a big manny acta fan. he'll turn them around eventually.

3. it pains me as a met fan to say this, because it would be our demise, but a 100 million salary cap is not only needed, but it's still a ludicrous amount of money that nobody should complain about when spread out amoung a team.

that'll do it for now

Answer 3

get rid of all the Mutts fans

Answer 4

Make every team have the same amount of money then the yankees will come crashing down

Answer 5

The DH rule.  Either abolish it or put it in both leagues.  Personally, I would abolish it, with the different strategies and the such. But, that may just be cuz I like the NL

Answer 6

there is a lot of stuff you can fix. how about limiting the amount of free agents that can be signed by each team every offseason. and institute a salary cap so smaller market teams can compete. if i could go back in time, i would make sure bonds, mcgwire, and sosa could somehow retire from the majors before their use of steroids, and make sure someone else besides selig became commish. and then ensure that vlad signed with the giants, they didn't give up liriano, nathan, AND bonser for piersynski, not sign zito, sign sabathia instead, trade bonds to yankees for melky, and thats pretty much it

Answer 7

A common theme that I agree with here is that we need to get rid of the AS game deciding home-field advantage for the World Series.

Salary cap -- can't do it.  It's called capitalism, folks.  If some team, player, etc. has the capability to make more money (or spend more money), then they should be rewarded for ability or ingenuity.  Should the large-market teams be penalized because 100s of years ago, a bunch of people decided to settle in a geographically desirable place and the city grew?  Should small-market teams be rewarded for owners with bad spending habits?

As far as all this "parity" goes -- what do people really want?  The Marlins won the WS in 1997.  If there weren't some kind of parity already, the highest payroll would win every year.  Guess what, that's why we have to play the games.  What'll happen if everyone finishes 81-81 some year?  I know, unlikely, almost impossible, but that's true parity, isn't it?

Final answer -- besides the AS game thing -- get rid of the DH.  That accomplishes several things.  First of all, when a player gets too old to field a position, he retires rather than switches leagues.  That establishes credibility for career records or any records based on longevity somehow.  It also lowers payrolls.  Really.  How many DHs get untold millions, basically for being a 1-tool (maybe 2-tool) player?  Instead of paying an old slugger $8 million a year, they could pay a younger player $1 million (for example), AND get more than one use out of him.  This indirectly also affects the bullpens.  There's no need to change pitchers just to face one hitter (the DH), and more guys can work every other or every third day rather than 10 pitches every night.  Hmmmm, I can see that affecting payroll as well, maybe carry a few less pitchers over the course of a year.  Also, fewer pitcher changes means fewer game interruptions, thus shutting up the (legitimate) whiners who hate 4+ hour games.  Makes sense to me . . . but I'm just one person, lol.

Answer 8

The one thing that I think should be instituted is the means to bring parity to baseball.  First, you would have to have a salary cap. as it is now, the smaller market teams have no chance to win because they can't attract the big stars.  That leads to my second point;  I think that all the teams that make the playoffs, should be barred from signing any free agents the following year, forcing the available stars to sign with a lower tier team.  After a few years, this will add total parity to the league.

Answer 9

Pave the fields and the players use roller blades.

Seriously,  get rid of DH and go back to alternating home field advantage for the WS

EDIT:  That Guy Mel -- The Marlins payroll in 2003 was just over 49mil. although they were gutted the next year.

http://baseball-almanac.com/yearly/yr200...

Answer 10

If I had one wish, it would be to able to change three things:

A salary floor, not a cap, coupled with a more equitable way to spread revenue among all the teams. It's ridiculous that Pittsburgh and KC won't spend enough money to field a major league team, but equally ridiculous that just by virtue of demographics they are prevented from playing in the salary league as New York/Chicago/LA teams.

Limit interleague play to one weekend each year, that way Sox/Cubs; Yankees/Mets still happen but it limits the number of Mariners/D-backs series.

Fire Bud Selig, give power back to the commissioner position and have the commissioner appointed by an independent body, maybe Congress.

Answer 11

The DH. Either have it in both leagues or not at all. The way it is right now is bull****.

Answer 12

MLB should have a salary cap. The way baseball is today, it is the rich teams that dominate. When a player is needed, a team that is rich can much easier afford to acquire one. With a salary cap, all teams would have an equal chance to win. The team that makes the best decisions on putting a team together within the salary cap, and managing that talent would most probably have the best record. A cap would force teams to make good baseball decisions. This is why even the poorest NHL teams can compete in hockey.....they should try it in MLB!

Answer 13

Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame!

Answer 14

For me I would change nothing  

Answer 15

1.  No DH

2.  Letting the All-Star Game decide home field advantage

3.  Inter-league Play - some matchups are great like Cubbies v. The Evil Ones, Mets v. Yankees, but honestly, who cares if the Orioles play the Padres?????  (I'm sure someone does, but you get my point.)

4.  High ticket prices,  parking prices and food prices - I know some teams have cheap seats and some stadiums allow you to bring in outside food, but I still think it's too expensive.  Yes you can carpool or take public transportation if available, but that can be a hassle.

Answer 16

To "That Guy Mel" They already have a league minumum salary. Its somewhere around $300K per year, which means the lowest paid players get about $2000 per game, even if they don't play.

1) I'm sure most people will disagree, because I've gotten my share of thumbs down for my position on this, But I think the DH should be expanded to both leagues. I like the DH. Let pitchers focus on pitching. Plus, I'm tired of seeing teams work around a dead spot in the lineup and having everyone hail it as "Strategy"

2) I agree with a salary cap around $100 million. This still allows the larger market teams to spend more than many of the small market teams, but it would distribute the talent more evenly and create a stronger nationwide fan base.

3) I would implement routine and required steriod testing, with very harsh penalties. I'd go as far as saying 1st offense is a 1 year suspension, 2nd offense is a permenant ban from the game including the HOF.

4) I would get rid of the all-star game determining WS home field.

Answer 17

Salary cap - $100 million

Wouldn't affect most teams, but would distribute some of the top end talent around more, and I bet you'd see the lower spending teams increase it a bit if they knew that the richest teams couldn't just keep raising the bar

It'd have to be implemented over a few years though - as much as I'd love to see it, you can't go tell the Yankees to completely dismantle the team at the drop of a hat.  $150 million within 2 years, $125 million in 4 years, $100 million in 6 years

Answer 18

I dont like that you can strike out while trying to bunt.  

Answer 19

I don't like the idea of a salary cap (not because I'm a Yankees fan), but I wouldn't be against one as long as MLB institutes a salary minimum as well. Too many owners are in baseball just to try and make money and not to win. Everyone gripes about how the Yankees spend all kinds of money, but no one seems to talk about how other owners don't spend. Carl Polhad, the Twins' owner, has much more money than George Steinbrenner, yet he doesn't invest nearly as much into his team as the Yankees do. And Jeffrey Loria, the Marlins' owner, followed Wayne Huizenga's lead when he bankrolled the Marlins to a World Series win in '03 and then gutted the team afterwards. Not to mention he pretty much killed the Expos by refusing to invest in them when he owned them. We all know Montreal is a hockey city, but baseball had worked there before and it was never given a chance to grow after the '94 strike.

For me, a team owner has to be willing to spend if he wants to win. Go and get mad at Steinbrenner (since you all do anyway), Fred Wilpon, John Henry, Artie Moreno and other big-team owners if you want. But at least they want to win. If there's a cap, there had better be a starting point so we don't see teams with $30 million payrolls.

Also, I'd like to institute the DH in both leagues. I'm sick and tired of pitchers ruining scoring rallies with strikeouts and weak grounders. Please save all your talk about how pitchers like CC Sabathia and Dontrelle Willis can hit. Most can't. And shouldn't.

Answer 20

The one thing I would change and fix would actually be two for the price of one...maybe even three...

I would get rid of the DH and interleague play at the same time by:

Expanding rosters to 27

making all divisions of a geographically close nature...i.e. Boston, NY Yankees, NY Mets, Philadelphia and Toronto would be one division...

Write me privately for details of the second part.

Old f**t traditionalist!

Answer 21

I would like to have that you could not win the series twice in a row! It would be much more fair to the not so good teams! The red sox and yankees are always winning and sometimes i wish for once that a different team could win. I will be waiting for the day that the indians win and when they do, all of america will be shocked but i hope they agree that it is always right to have a different team win! I hope that some teams really start improving and showing that there is more than just the big city teams!

Answer 22

I think there should be a salary cap as well. There's a big problem when A-Rod is making more this year than the entire Marlins roster combined.