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Constitutional amendments for team sports.
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OK, this one has something in common with:
11. Playing areas must be uniform.
Both are really needed only for baseball.
Friday, June 24, 2011
8 men bat: resolving the DH impasse.
Now that the two separate leagues, American and National, no longer exist as independent entities, having different rules in what amount to conferences in one league (MLB) is really stupid. The other sports leagues don't do that...
This is the 40th year in which AL and NL have a different rule, the designated hitter (DH). This was dumb from the beginning. It should have been what I am now suggesting as a compromise: a designated fielder (DF) with only 8 batters.
To accommodate the players union, the owners should offer to expand the rosters from 25 to 26 players. This would ensure approval by the players. It would also probably save the owners money. That 26th player would make the minimum, about half a million dollars, as opposed to several million paid to a DH.
The additional advantage would be that the better and more popular batters would bat more frequently.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Merger: AL and NL merged years ago. How come no one noticed?
If the merger between the once independent American and National Leagues had been treated as such then the new organization, MLB, Inc., might not have made such absurd decisions about organizing the new single league...
More of a mess is that MLB did not even attempt to reconcile the different rule, the 1972 designated hitter (DH), which applied to the AL but not to the NL. That schism persists to this day, the first of the MLB finals, and MLB is not even embarrassed by that as it should be. FORTY years and MLB has not resolved a simple rule aberration...
It was a merger. A damn MERGER!
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Major Baseball League: a new phrase is coined.
Major League Baseball (MLB) should change its name to Major Baseball League (MBL). Maybe I'll do it for them. Ladies and Gentlemen, now introducing the already existing Major Baseball League with its American and National conferences! Get used to it...
In case it is not obvious enough the intent of this name change is to drive home the point yet again that the old American and National Leagues merged into one league known as Major.
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OK, this one has something in common with:
11. Playing areas must be uniform.
Both are really needed only for baseball.
Friday, June 24, 2011
8 men bat: resolving the DH impasse.
Now that the two separate leagues, American and National, no longer exist as independent entities, having different rules in what amount to conferences in one league (MLB) is really stupid. The other sports leagues don't do that...
This is the 40th year in which AL and NL have a different rule, the designated hitter (DH). This was dumb from the beginning. It should have been what I am now suggesting as a compromise: a designated fielder (DF) with only 8 batters.
To accommodate the players union, the owners should offer to expand the rosters from 25 to 26 players. This would ensure approval by the players. It would also probably save the owners money. That 26th player would make the minimum, about half a million dollars, as opposed to several million paid to a DH.
The additional advantage would be that the better and more popular batters would bat more frequently.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Merger: AL and NL merged years ago. How come no one noticed?
If the merger between the once independent American and National Leagues had been treated as such then the new organization, MLB, Inc., might not have made such absurd decisions about organizing the new single league...
More of a mess is that MLB did not even attempt to reconcile the different rule, the 1972 designated hitter (DH), which applied to the AL but not to the NL. That schism persists to this day, the first of the MLB finals, and MLB is not even embarrassed by that as it should be. FORTY years and MLB has not resolved a simple rule aberration...
It was a merger. A damn MERGER!
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Major Baseball League: a new phrase is coined.
Major League Baseball (MLB) should change its name to Major Baseball League (MBL). Maybe I'll do it for them. Ladies and Gentlemen, now introducing the already existing Major Baseball League with its American and National conferences! Get used to it...
In case it is not obvious enough the intent of this name change is to drive home the point yet again that the old American and National Leagues merged into one league known as Major.
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