Revolutionize Baseball

by jbox on Jun 1, 2006 10:50 AM PDT in News

From time to time, I'll try and think of ways to revolutionize the game of baseball.

Here's a few I've come up with recently:

No base coaches. Imagine the excitement of bad base running, pickles, and plays at the plate without those clear signals from base coaches. Leave the game up to the players instincts and mental facilities.
You can't have equipment on at the plate that you aren't going to wear on the base paths. Assuming base coaches still exist, then Barry Bonds can't hand off his arm armor, pitchers can't be handed jackets and Brian Giles can't take off his little ankle protector. I would love to see a pitcher batting with a jacket tied around his waist. Pitchers would suddenly demand to wear sweaters on the base path and have them tied around their neck at the plate. Then maybe ball players wouldn't be so dependent on armor if they had to lug it around the base paths.
Base runners can run out of the base path. Imagine fielders chasing a base runner around the field like security chasing a streaker. The crowd always loves it when somebody jumps on the field and jukes the security, I bet they'd love this new rule too.

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Demotion

1.I think we should make baseball like most soccer leagues around the world. Something along the line of the bottom two teams in each league get demoted to AAA and the top four teams in AAA get promoted to the majors, and down the line (The bottom 4 AAA go to AA, etc.)

Of course the Padres may end up competing against Lake Elsinore and Tampa Bay in A Ball, but it would make things more interesting.

2.If you wear armor at the plate, and the pitcher hits you in the armor, it counts as a strike. Everyone would be aiming for Bonds' elbow. Helmets don't count.

If you charge the mound, the umps let you fight. The loser gets ejected and suspended for five games, and the winner stays and gets the loser's pay from those five games. This applies to any fight. If it turns in to a team brawl, the losing team forfeits the next five games and their payroll goes to the winning team.
Everyone has to wear their pants up and show their stirrups.
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by osbug on Jun 1, 2006 11:41 AM PDT reply actions

I especially like #2

that's a good one.

by jbox on Jun 1, 2006 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions

I like #4

For some reason I've always loved when players where their socks up. It just reminds me of the old days in baseball. I loved that game that Peavy pitched when they all wore the 196? uniforms, where every player wore stirrups with their socks up. Very cool.

by Cy Young 44 on Jun 1, 2006 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions