So here's the scenario. Bud Selig gets fired tomorrow and YOU are hired on as the commissioner to Major League Baseball. What changes would you make to baseball(if any) and why would you make them? My Changes Change # 1 - How the playoff teams are decided and to fix scheduling. I would get rid of the Wild Card and inter-league play and have a balanced schedule throughout the league. At the end of the season, the top 4 teams in each league would make it to the playoffs with the 1st seed playing the 4 seed, and the 2 seed playing the 3 seed. I would even at least really think about adding 2 more teams to the AL and even up the divisions at 16 teams each(assuming we have 2 markets that could support teams). I still don't understand why Las Vegas has 0 main stream Professional sports teams(MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL) and I would look there as expansion team 1. Expansion team 2 might be tough... Maybe Nashville? If that change would have been implemented this season, you would have the 1st round in the NL being between the Angels and the winner of a 1 game tie breaker between the Yankees and the White Sox, and the Red Sox and Rays playing. In the NL you would have the Cubs taking on the Mets, and the Phillies taking on the Brewers. Sorry Dodgers, no playoffs for you. There are 6 teams in the NL with more wins than the Dodgers. Change # 2 - The designated hitter. I know what I am about to say isn't going to go over well in an NL town... but here goes. Add the DH to the National league. WHAT?!?! Yes.... Let me go on record as saying that I am against the DH and think it should be removed from baseball... but I also understand that the MLB players union is a very strong union and no way would they ever allow the DH to be removed from the AL. So the 2nd option is to add the DH to the NL and make the leagues rules THE SAME!! It's unfair to have different rules for the different leagues. The only resolution in my mind is to make the rules the same. Change # 3 - Fire Angel Hernandez. Simple and well warranted. That's pretty much it. I think baseball is doing VERY well how it is and raking in the dough. I don't think it needs a lot of changes to it, just a few tweaks here and there. I think instant replay was needed and should stay in baseball how it is now. Maybe find ways to make it a little quicker, but I definitely keep it the way it is now(boundary calls on home runs only).
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