The Manager's Suggestions on Fixing Baseball

As I mentioned yesterday, the Manager has some thoughts on how to fix the game we all love so very much....

- To start with, we need a truly and fully balanced schedule. For that to happen however, two teams must be contracted. You want to save your team, you had better show up at the ballpark. The two teams with the lowest attendance over the last three seasons are gone. During the 2010 season, the five teams with the lowest attendance from lowest to highest were Cleveland, Oakland, Florida, Pittsburgh and Toronto. The obvious choices here are Oakland and Toronto so we will contract them for this.

- With two teams now gone, we have 28 teams which will be put into one big division and under National League rules. If you can't play in the field, you shouldn't be hitting. You still have 162 games with each team playing three home and three away games against all the rest. Each city gets to see every team come through every season.

- Now the next thought would be, if you are doing this with all this traveling, the season is going to last until December.....oh no no. The time has come to start scheduling doubleheaders every Sunday and during the week during June, July and August. There would be a limit on doubleheaders per week of two. Also, making sure that teams on road trips are going to places in as close of a difference as possible. Example being if Seattle traveled to the Midwest, they would get in their games in their 12 games in Milwaukee, Detroit and Chicago.

- With 28 teams, 8 teams will still make the playoffs, 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7 and so on but each series will be 7 games. Also, rosters would be expanded to 32 strictly due to the extra travel and the doubleheaders. There would be set game times. Every game must start at 1 pm or 7 pm local time and doubleheaders would be played at those times as well. As much as I love the doubleheader going back to back, this will allow teams to get their full 81 game gate for the season.

The time has come to tweak the game ever so slightly and gives every team the chance to play equally without having to worry about playing the Yankees, Red Sox or Phillies 16-18 times a season.