If I was king of baseball

  1. No more designated hitter.
  2. The two teams I hate the most (Cardinals and White Sox) are relegated to AA, with no possibility of being promoted back up to the major leagues or even to AAA. No other teams may relocate to Chicago or St. Louis, leaving this territory to the Cubs alone.
  3. No player may use country music as his walk-up song. No country music will be played in the stadium at all, in fact. There will be large cash bonuses for players who pick Kesha songs as their walk-up songs.
  4. Batting helmets must be kept reasonably clean, with no ugly pine tar residue all over the place.
  5. I don’t like the teams that didn’t exist when I first started following baseball (1986). Therefore, the Marlins, Diamondbacks, Rays, and Rockies must make do with minimum-salary players. Obviously these teams will suck year after year, but that’s not my problem. (The Nationals don’t count because they existed as the Expos)