SEPT 2010

Thanks to all bloggers for the month of September 2010!

We had our busiest blog month since April.  Now we had into October, Halloween, Fall, and THANK GOD the major league baseball playoffs!  

Does anyone in baseball realize that now that the Minnesota Twins have an outdoor stadium we could see a world series in about 10 degree weather with snow come November!  Why in the world do we have to have baseball in November?  I'm a baseball fan, but here's my suggestions to "fix" the game:

1. SHORTEN the regular season. Right now it's 162 games. Teams play almost every day from April to Oct. That's just ridiculous! 162 was instilled around 1961.  Of course, when they had 154 game seasons 8 teams did not make the playoffs from each league. 
I say reduce the regular season to 144 games and start the playoffs in September.

2. Do not add another wildcard. Yes, there;s talk of adding another playoff spot for each league! Doesn't anybody learn from the the NHL or NBA?  Nobody cares about their regular seasons because everybody makes the playoffs......

3. All playoff series before the world series should shortened to best of 3.

4. NO trading deeadline August 31. Each team should have to play the whole season with the team they take from spring training or minor league call ups.  I hate that a team can play till august the trade for a Cliff Lee, etc... as a mercenary to finish the season. 

5. In the playoffs and world series there should be a mandatory rest period between starts for pitchers. Then say the Yanks can't pitch C.C. the 1st game and bring him back for the 3rd or 4th.   Then we would see the best "TEAM" win instead of the team with the best 1 or 2 pitchers.

6. No DH in American League park and no DH in National league parks during world series.  I'm sorry the National League hasn't caught up with the times, but why should the American League teams have to play a game without one of their usual best hitters?  Furthermore, why should I be subject to another game where a pro athlete pitcher attempts to bunt with the whole stadium knowing he's going to or stand there looking like he's never had a baseball bat in his hands!
It's an addition to the National League and a subtraction to the American League.

7. Time clock used between pitches. Stop the wasted time by batters having readjust their gloves, helmets, jocks between every pitch.  Penalty is an automatic strike.