I have decided I’m not just the King of Baseball, but the King of All Sports.
Henceforth you may all continue to bitch about the very idea of ties in baseball as I will not allow such an evil to stain the sport. BUT, in exchange, it is decreed that you will stop complaining about draws in soccer simply because you don’t understand the game. Draws are an important and fundamental part of soccer league and tournament play, not the Nancy-kneed aberration so many of you seem to think.
The designated hitter is eliminated.
Interleague play is eliminated.
Two divisions per league, winners play in the League Championship Series.
Stepping out of the box and adjusting any part of the batting equipment constitutes an automatic strike.
Joe Buck is banned from calling games for life.
Pete Rose never gets reinstated and no team is allowed to honor him.
All votes for the Hall of Fame are made public. No exceptions.
All teams share gross revenue from all sources, no exceptions.
MLB is required to provide no less than 25% of the funding for any stadium, with the owner providing no less than 50% and the host city making up the difference so everybody has skin in the game and no team can easily move.
The only music allowed during a game is to be played live by an organist.
I could do this all night, but that’s a good start.
Actually not too many bitch about draws in soccer. What most of the bitching is about is that penalty kicks are a stupid way to resolve draws when a method is needed in tournaments. I think, golden goal (sudden death), alternating corner kicks, or even the old MLS variation on the penalty kick are all better ways to do so.
It’s kinda like what they say about political systems:
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
Indeed, using penalty kicks to resolve a tied game after extra-time is a horrible way to do it. But it’s certainly better than the methods you mention or any other idea I’ve ever heard.
And remember, penalty kicks don’t actually resolve draws. They do not determine a winner of the game—it ends officially as a draw. Penalty kicks are only used in knock-out rounds to determine who continues on to the next round of a tournament (or in the final game, who wins the tournament).
However, even though I am the self-decreed King of All Sports, this soccer talk is a bit of a hijack for this thread. The soccer/draw topic has been covered in more than a few other SDMB threads.
One man’s religious dogma is another man’s received Scripture. Except for DH-hatred. That’s always received Scripture, and contrary positions are heresy.
Honestly I don’t like the specialization.
Why have anyone do any of the things they are not good at? Why have any of the up the middle players hit? Why have any fielders hit at all? There are a ton of glove first guys in the minors that will never see the show because they can’t hit but are wizards on the field. DH for them too? Also, a bunch of guys are slow as heck. Why not one guy hitting and a other speedster running with guys who have cannons for arms but can’t hit fielding? Why make catchers run the bases, their legs are tired enough?
There are lots of good reasons to not have every player play every part of the game. But it quickly stops being baseball. I’m not saying DH is necessarily a slippery slope, but the cognitive dissonance hurts my head and always has. And I didn’t start following baseball until after 2000.
I hate that there are 150 men in the bullpen too and for similar reasons.
Actually, here’s the most unpopular King of Baseball proclamation we’re going to have on hear.
Eliminate the fact that there are two “leagues” and just call them conferences. Having two entirely different leagues under the same sport, making them different-yet-the-same is just stupid. No other sport does this, why should baseball be any different? The AL and the NL are still called it (for history’s sake) but anything else that makes them separate is eliminated.
Also Pete Rose is in the Hall of Fame. It’s pure stupidity and clinging to a pointless past that’s keeping him out.
I’d be willing to consider this, but only after he’s been dead for at least 50 years.
A minimum of three day games every day, not just Sundays.
Blackout rule eliminated.
Should we cap the price of beer? I’d say $6 sounds about right
I’d rather cap the price of parking. Make beer too cheap and you risk another Disco Destruction Night disaster. Granted, that was 5 cent beer, but still… 
Actually it would be interesting (note I do not say better) if we expanded the DH and make every position a specialist. That is, some folks just hit, some just run (Usain Bolt?), some just field.
Brian
Homer quits drinking and goes to a baseball game: https://youtu.be/VlORWhsJjNM
Okay, as a not really a sports fan, I have to ask: WTF is wrong with interleague play? I’ve never seen anyone bitch about it in any of the other Big Four American sports.
You are playing against teams that you aren’t in competition with but it effects the standings and no other team in your league plays them.
Purists bitch about it because Back In The Day, the only time you saw a team from the other league was the World Series. But once baseball moved West, expanded and discovered TV, those arguments became more and more strident and more and more meaningless. You could see teams from the other league every day with cable. If you lived in a major city, you could drive across town and watch the other guys play.
I love interleague play because it’s fun to watch American League pitchers actually have to play the game for once.
I am on a crusade, as king, to make the regular season meaningful again. Interleague play, in fact all unbalanced scheduling, devalues the regular season.
Here’s a rule:
Every team must schedule each season at least five true double-headers. One price gets both games, and it has to be no more than a 40% price bump.
To this day, I fondly recall watching a double-header at Wrigley in 1968(?) between the Cubs and the Pirates. One of the best days of my life. (Of course, like all such memories, it probably didn’t really happen, but it’s still remembered as one of the best days of my life!). All kids should have the chance of such a memory.
The owners of baseball clubs are multi-gazillionaires. They can afford the hit to revenues. 
One problem with scheduling doubleheaders is the length of games these days. Back in the day when doubleheaders were common, a game might only last two hours, but now they average three hours. Six hours (plus the half hour between games) makes for a very long day, both for the players and the fans.