If you could change one thing about your favorite sport, what would it be?
For soccer I’d like harsher punishment for faking injuries and diving. It’d probably involve giving fines or suspensions after the fact, but I think it’d be a pretty easy to implement and effective fix.
Baseball. Get rid of the designated hitter. Make the all-star game either 1) meaningless, and fan-voted, or 2) meaningful, and player-coach-writer-voted.
Joe
Skiing. I’d like to change the freezing temperature of water. The season is far, far too short.
Get rid of the designated hitter and nuke the Giants.
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It’s THE greatest shame for football (soccer) that diving is so widespread. Even kids tell you that their coaches ask them to fake fouls or injuries.
Or, ever better—get rid of the designated hitter and nuke the Dodgers. :p:D;)
In the spirit of detente, I propose we get rid of the designated hitter and nuke the Yankees.
In baseball, it has got to be the late inning pitching changes. Even worse in a postseason game which is already running long.
Ice hockey, the stupid 4 on 4 in overtime and the even worse shoot out.
American football, “Icing” the kicker.
Baseball. Agree with the anti-DH sentiment too, but goddammit, PICK UP THE PACE ALREADY!
The biggest problem about regular season NHL OT is that the two teams will share 3 points, while a regulation win will only net them (the winner) 2 points. Make a regulation win worth 3 points and this issue would be addressed. I don’t mind 4-on-4, and postseason games should switch to it starting with the 2nd OT period.
What they really should do is go back to the sizes that the goalie pads had 30+ years ago, because frankly the save percentages have become far too unreal anymore, and that is severely distorting how the game is played. Too many goals are scored in “fluky” ways now (i.e. off of deflections, like hockey is a pinball game). Patrick Roy had a .892 save percentage in 1986. Patrick Fucking Roy. And he ranked 5th in the league.
Baseball: Definitely a way to share revenue like they do in football to try to equalize roster expenditures. In football all TV revenue and memorabilia (I think) revenue is shared equally. In baseball it is not, nor do visiting teams get a portion of the gate as they used to prior to 1997.
Basketball - ban zone defenses. Boring and stops development of man on man defense particularly at the junior level.
Make it a rule: Real Madrid wins everything.
NFL - Roger Goodell.
Screw that. If you want a decent team to root for, move! 
Can we bring them back to Brooklyn instead? Heck, bring the Giants back too. What this town needs is at least four MLB franchises!
Rebuild the Polo Grounds and Ebbbets Field first and we’ll talk.
Baseball, and yes, the pace needs to be picked up.
1. Batters should be forced to stop dicking around. Get back the the box. Don’t let them call time out for no good reason. What, your batting gloves don’t fit? Make sure you have ones that fit the next time you hit or you’re ejected.
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For God’s sake, cut down on the pitching changes.
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I believe playoff games have 2 minutes between innings, as opposed to 90 seconds in the regular season. 90 seconds is fine, thanks.
I don’t expect them to lop an hour off every game. Just keep the pace up.
Oh, and for hockey; no point for losing a game in OT/shootout. Either you win a game or a you lose a game. You don’t need “points” at all. All you need to count are wins.