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NO DH.

NO UPPER BODY ARMOR, except to protect bones that are currently on the mend. After they mend, take it off.

No digital strikezones.

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10xandcounting wrote:I'm typing and not thinking

Oh, I'm not railing you...that's your opinion.

I, personally, like the randomness in the game to prefer regular fat, blind umpires.

Baseball is a slow moving, relaxing game with its quirks...fat, blind umpires being one of them.

Who are you going to yell at if the umps aren't there?

Cheers,
TFG

TimeForGuinness wrote:

10xandcounting wrote:I'm typing and not thinking

Who are you going to yell at if the umps aren't there?

robot umps

Interleague play doesn't really bother me. It's fun to get a shot at some of the AL teams. I had a blast in 2005 when we went 4-2 against the Red Sox and Yankees.

Legynd wrote:I think eliminating the DH would be #1 on my list as well. A close #2 would be getting rid of the silly rule that the league that wins the All-Barf Game gets home adv. in the World Series. Do like every other major sport: team with best overall record gets home field adv.

If they want to make the All-Barf game "meaningful," use financial incentives for the players or find some other enticement. Better yet, give each manager 3 emergency pitchers so you don't have a tie, or come up with some sort of tie-breaker procedure when you run out of pitchers.

Legynd

Ditto

TimeForGuinness wrote:

10xandcounting wrote:I'm typing and not thinking

Oh, I'm not railing you...that's your opinion.

I, personally, like the randomness in the game to prefer regular fat, blind umpires.

Baseball is a slow moving, relaxing game with its quirks...fat, blind umpires being one of them.

Who are you going to yell at if the umps aren't there?

Cheers,
TFG

Yep, that's me. I really think Card fans have had more fun retelling the Denkinger call than if they would have won that year.

The DH.

Unbalanced schedules.

Enforce the time that a pitcher has to deliver the ball. The rules are already on the books. I would love to start seeing balls called on pitchers that take to long, and strikes called on batters that can't stay in the box.

Limit the number of "time outs" a batter can call or mound visits by a manager to 1 per inning or something like that.

Never grant time out to a hitter after a pitcher has come set. Likewise, after coming set, limit the amount of time a pitcher has to pitch.

Permanently ban astroturf. (not fieldturf.)

Some ideas that I find interesting, but wouldn't necessarily do:

Have a maximum height for the grass on the infield.

Either ban the humidor or make ball storage standardized for all parks.

Raise the mound to halfway between it's current height and Gibson's height.

Change the arbitration rules. I don't mind the # of years that a player has of arbitration, etc. but I don't necessarily like the process of arbitration.

Expand eligibility for the Rule 5 draft, and make the 45-50 man roster. Right now I think the rule hurts clubs with deep farm systems.

Tougher DL rules so a player can't be sent on a 21 day rehab assignment unless an independent physician/trainer determines that it's necessary. This would make it tougher for teams to DL someone with minor injuries and send them down for 3 weeks in order to set up a better rotation, bench, lineup, etc. for upcoming opponents.

Fat - I don't know if some of those rules for moving the game along would work, but I completely agree that the umps need to enforce the rules that are there and do a better job. Baseball really isn't suited to be a 3 hour+ affair. I was reading something about the Negro leagues a while back and a news article said fans were so disgusted with the length of games do to arguing with umps that the would leave in protest. Some games were actually over 2 hours! the article went on to complain.