Related to this, I would decree that the rules, technology, and players dictate the evolution of the game, and not the historical statistics. Most of baseball rules and gear is intended to artificially normalize the statistics across large time periods.
Look, I don’t care if Zeke O’McGillicuddy of the 1847 New Amsterdam House Martins batted a .336 with his corncob bat and crabapple baseball that they used back then–quit hamstringing the modern game by shoehorning play into perceived historical statistical ideals!
I would institute an immediate 8 team playoff at the end of the season. No Team in the playoff will be allowed to play within 750 miles of their home, and Playoff games will be randomly selected locations, including cold and snowy places. The 8 teams in the playoff each year will be selected by Me(What’s the point of being dictator if you’re gonna leave it up to idiot sportswriters, and biased coaches?)
To be able to play in my bowl each player will have to take off-site proctored exams showing basic competance in the areas in which they took classes that semester.
Next 10 Super Bowls to be played in Green Bay, Chicago, Cleveland, Foxboro, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Philadelphia, East Rutherford, Denver and Cincinnati. Enough of that warm weather!
NFL:
The uniform czars are fired.
Gatorade baths are an automatic forfeiture.
Even number of possessions in overtime.
For MLB, managers will no longer wear uniforms.
All coaching staffs will be cut in half.
Spiking the ball in the end zone is a taunting penalty, as are dances.
College football will be recognized as the business it is, and college players are to receive salaries.
I’m kind of divided on this one. Yes, it might give teams incentive to cut players, but having “dead cap” hasn’t provided disincentive for OVERpaying players or making poor free agent choices, so I’m not sure if it’s any incentive or the right incentive.
It’s a pool, not a cap, though I suppose it provides some limitation. The point is that too many teams are necessitated by competition to overpay unproven high draft choices and it ends up lessening proven veterans’ salaries… I say screw the college kids and pay the real men.
I’m with you on that; if it weren’t for the time delay, I’d watch the game with the radio announcing.
Oh, and my changes for the NBA would be that all walking fouls will be called or the offending refs get docked a game. Players faking being fouled get ejected and docked game pay.
Paresies Squares
Pyramid
Brockian Ultra-Krikkit
Klingon Wrestling
Extreme Vogon Poetry Appreciation
Skeet-Quiddich
in Baseball, the batter will be permitted to retain his bat when he runs the bases, and will be allowed to use it to re-hit the ball if it looks like a baseman is about to catch it, or even use it to take out the baseman
This is stupid. Even if you have the greatest defense in the history of the sport you’d still want to receive. Gaining a huge advantage over a coin flip is retarded.
Add one more game to NCAA basketball tournament. That would be 128 teams and cover everyone who could even dream they belonged. Plus you get the chance for a real darkhorse winner.
By definition, if you have the greatest defense in the history of the sport, losing the coin flip would NOT give the other team a huge advantage.
Hell, just having a good defense is enough. The team that wins the coin flip only wins 52% (through 2003) of the time anyway, and that surely includes some teams with shitty defenses losing the coin toss.
52% doesn’t meet my definition of “huge advantage.”
No DH–It has gone on long enough and there are enough people that want it removed. I have never followed an AL team, so maybe the AL fans see something I am missing, but it would be gone
Forget interleague play-- make open days available for inter-city rivalries. The Cubs-WhiteSox could do it, why not Marlins-Devil Rays, etc.
No indoor baseball–As has been said before, if you can’t grow grass, you can’t have a team, sorry.
Scheduled double-headers–Who would object? Twice the baseball for one price.
One WS game during the day–Kids bring Ipods to school. Let them listen to the game. Hell, adults have radios at work.
Hmm, that’s a lot lower than I expected. Still, should any advantage be conveyed by a coin toss? Would you be in favor of baseball being decided as sudden death, with a coin toss to determine who’s at bat first even if it played out that the team that won only won 52% of the time? Also, it’s not 52-48, it’s like 52-44 with the others being ties so that’s a bit of a difference.
Right, but the problem is that the Patriots have a top 10 pick via a trade with the 49ers last year. The pick in the first round they lost would have been no better than 30th overall because of how the standings/draft pick system works. In theory they lost a first round pick. In reality they lost an early second round pick, and still get a top ten pick. What the hell kind of penalty is that? I would let them keep the 32nd overall pick (which is effectively the first pick of the second round anyway) and take away their highest draft pick.
I absolutely want there to be a small statistical bias for winning the coin toss because of the fact that some teams with shitty defenses inevitably will lose the coin toss. I want them punished for having a shitty defense; I consider that a good thing.
I stated this from the beginning as the main reason why I want the sudden death format preserved.
Also, the very concept of “fair ups” strikes me as amateur hour, and beneath the dignity of professionals. It also is corrosive to the sport of football because it implies that offense is the “real” football while defense and special teams are afterthoughts. That logic offends me on a visceral level.
