Guys i love baseball i do but unlike most of you i see that the sport has many problems/issues. I don't why most of you can't see that but hey i don't live in the land of unicorns. I will present the problem and my solutions. If you don't like them thats fine because most of you don't like logical solutions tho issues that are coming. here are the issues
1. Pace of play
I've sat at home calling games off and on for the last 10 years{Thats how you get better at calling games so don't bother being an a$$} and the pace of play is just getting ridculous. From pitchers taking forever to throw to batters getting in and out of the box. I blame Garciaparra for this because he made it "cool" with the glove velcro thing. We need a 20 second pitch clock in baseball
2. Pitchers should have to wear helmets on the mound
Some Dodgers fan is laughing at this but you won't be laughing when Kershaw takes a liner off his head and dies on the field. Many of you say "that won't happen" and people said the same thing about base coaches and then a 1st base coach in the minors took a liner to the neck and died. I'm looking ahead something MLB doesn't do
3. If a pitcher hits a batter in the head or near the head whether it be on purpose or accident that pitcher should be ejected from the game
I'm looking ahead to the issues of concussions in sports. I feel that a pitcher should be able to control where and how he throws the ball. When Niese hit Heyward and broke his jaw he should've been thrown out. Most won't agree and thats fine
4. I want the computerized strike zone
I wasn't at this point a few years ago and now i am. I'm done with umpires. I'm done with their ego,their strike zones i can't do it anymore. In my world 1,000 umpires in the bottom of the ocean is a start.I want a ball called a ball and a strike called a strike. I'll ask you what is a strike? It changes minute to minute
5. I want umpires gone from the game
I''m done with umpires. Lets face it guys at our jobs you,me joe schmo etc we're all going to be replcaed by computers or robots in 10 years any way. I'm just speeding up the process. You got Bob Davidson saying Bleep You Charlie,Bleep you Charlie Bleep You Charlie if Ed Hochuli did that to Bill Belichick in week 3 Hochuli would be fired by week 4. But umpires don't lose their jobs
Hell Joey Votto got thrown out of a game LY when an umpire said swing at it and Votto said "I only swing at strikes". If you can't handle being yelled at then you shouldn't do the job. The Bob Davidson's,Joe West's Angel Hernandez's of the world are ruining the game. So lets eliminate it altogether. You may say "packers you think you could umpire?" yeah i can drink ovaltine and guess with the best of them
6. I want the DH in both leagues
I don't see pitchers hit. And just because i was born in Michigan its not because i'm a Tigers fan i watched a ton of NL baseball in my life. i don't want to watch pitchers hit. If you put the DH in both leagues and then players can make more money which is all they care about anyway
7. The wildcard team should get1 game at home in a 5 game series and 2 at home in a 7 game series
I feel a wildcard team is not at much of a disadvantage. Even with 2 wildcard teams{which is a farce} i feel wildcard teams should get fewer home game to make it a true penalty to be a wildcard team
Again guys these are my opinions. I love baseball i do but i'm tired of people telling me baseball is sunshine and roses right now. Baseball is dying a slow death. It may be death by 1000 papercuts but its dying. You can point to revenue and thats fine but lets be real the game isn't creating new fans. Baseball isn't cool to play,its hard to watch on tv,the game asks too much of you and that will be the downfall
I'm not getting any of you to change your mind and you know what? You won't change mine. But if MLB doesn't fix the problems with their game the bubble will burst. And thats all this new money is in baseball its a bubble that will burst. You'll laugh but hey we've had bubbles burst in this country and sorry guys baseball isn't bulletproof
Thats my opinion. BOL guys