Name one thing that would fix it

kek

Green Bay Packers like ownership for all teams

Less games, less time per game, better marketing.

Salary cap

make the game start in the 9th inning

Also seconding the fewer games. Consider getting rid of divisions altogether; if no expansion, 3 leagues of 10 teams. If they expand, 4 leagues of 8 teams. The former would require creative playoff/wild card seeding, but it's workable.

shorten the game to 7 innings

Mlb doesnt care. They are rich is fuck. MLB pretty much pioneered modern live video streaming technology. Its the worlds biggest secret. If you stream a livevideo anywhere today, you are getting it via technology owned and licensed by major league baseball. Wake up.

- Fewer games (50% reduction at least)

- Only the starting pitcher and two relievers dressed per game. No bottomless bullpen.

- Promotion/relegation

- Higher/further walls.

- Get rid of designated hitters

- lower mound

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no it's this. sure it's catchy tune and all but you don't honestly believe this shit do you?

It's undeniable the impact NFL Films had on the game of football and its popularity. Before NFL Films, no one cared about football.

Less games. Managers are not allowed to wear uniforms. Managers are not allowed to leave the dugout. Robot umps. Managers are not allowed to give interviews. Managers are not allowed to argue with umps. Managers have to retire after the age of 55.

Also, I agree with less games. Should be like 62 games a season, not even memeing. 2-3 games a week at most.

2 hours of REAL time.

It doesn't matter if we are at 2,4,5, 17 innings.

Replace it with cricket

I mean...I can't really see them ever putting a time limit on MLB. That's little league stuff.

Way, way to few games. Less games means like consider dialing back to 130-140. It's still an every day game. If anything, you use the shortened season to make an expanded playoffs that doesn't drag into November too much.

62 games is like a college season.

you guys should cut games
>people reeee about revenues getting cut
the most successful league by a large margin plays 1/5th or 1/10th games of the other big three
>yeah but they can do that because they have bigger stadiums
they're only like 2-4 times bigger and you can charge more per ticket since the games are more important. football doesn't rely on ticket gate as much either because games matter and people out of region will actually watch them
>noooooo you can't cut games!

also hard to get into baseball when it does start mattering because you have no emotional investment because you skipped the first 5 months.

We're not even at the halfway point and I'm already bored of baseball. I love the sport and watch every game, but you need to cut the regular season AT LEAST two months if you're going to have near-daily games. Around 100 games a year at most. Expanding the playoffs heavily is a good idea, but if your team sucks, watching a slog of 162 games of mediocrity that spans 6 months (7 if you count ST) is nuts.

>Expanding the playoffs heavily is a good idea
by this you mean what? more teams, games, both?

I like the idea of having one series a week, preferably on the weekend. Each game will be as packed as it can be, the players will be well rested, and the memorable moments that happen can actually be appreciated. If you keep the current length of the season which is April - September, that rounds out to about 60-66 games a year.

Make all the small market teams split the season between other small market cities.

Simpsons did it

I think 100 is just too short. Maybe what they could do is have a drop out point for poor performing teams and then the better teams finish out the season against each other. Sort of like an expanded playoffs but without the immediate knock out potential.

Definitely both. Having one game decide the wild card round is retarded, especially for baseball where there's so much luck involved in just one game. Make it as least 3 games per series, preferably 7 all the way through. Expand the playoff seeding, too, but by how much would depend on how long the regular season is.

would love this. if you want to keep division formats intact play home and away in your division(8 series), one each team in league non-division(10), and a designated rival or two or rotate playing a division in the other league(1-5)

130-140 would be a good starting point, at least. We both agree it needs a shorter season. The drop out point sounds interesting too

I like it

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this but unironically

More teams outside the US, like Mexico or another Canadian team.

MLB has talked about Mexico and are now openly revisiting Montreal. The issue with Mexico is baseball is more popular in the north of the country, but the biggest market is Mexico City. Adding Mexico City would be like rolling another Seattle and Colorado onto the schedule in one. And I'm not sure how interested non-Latin players would be to play in Mexico.

It'd be a riskey move for MC, it'd either be a surge of energy to MLB or a damper.

Move the A’s to Sacramento
Put a limit on the number of pitching changes you can make after the 7th inning
Move the marlins to montreal
Robot umpires
Scantily clad female cheerleaders
5 cent beer nights

Pro/rel system

This just isn't going to happen.

Steroids

And I love baseball

t. manfred

>Reduce the season to 145 regular season games
>cut the ALDS back down to 5 game series
>make the DH universal
>mandatory $10 tickets across the league for every nosebleed section in every park on weekdays
>Institute a salary cap
>increase the 40 man roster to a 50 man roster to allow for bigger bullpens
>Umps are still part of the game, and handle human element parts of the game, but a camera/stat tracking system handles balls/strikes, stolen bases, and slides home.
>players who argue balls and strikes get automatically ejected
>The centerfield at each ballpark must reach a minimum of 405 yards
>The green monster must be demolished
>Relocate the A's to Portland and the Rays to Montreal
>Expand to Charlotte and Las Vegas
>allow the use of certain performance enhancers at a regulated level
>have a standing rule that at least 2/3s of the league's teams must have a baby blue alternate/away jersey
>Majority owners have a 30 year term and must sell the team to a minority/outside owners after that 30 years has expired.
>Commissioners have term limits of two 5 year terms, the terms don't have to be consecutive and serving as the interim commissioner doesn't count towards a term.
>Minor league players are given a pay raise, but the minors is shortened down to AA and AAA.
>The mounds should be raised
>Players are allowed a higher, but not much higher, degree of customization when it comes to their uniforms
>The MLB and NPB will host bi yearly exhibition tournaments between the four best teams of both leagues.

>>cut the ALDS back down to 5 game series

Stopped reading there

Playing under the rain

>>Umps are still part of the game, and handle human element parts of the game, but a camera/stat tracking system handles balls/strikes, stolen bases, and slides home.
Zoomers were a mistake

No. One of the benefits of a shorter season would mean the teams would be less willing to play through rain. Wet baseball sucks.

>6 inning games
keep everything about the game the same just make each game finish faster. i can't care about baseball for more than 2 hours at a time

>reduced season with reduced number of games
i seriously can't watch baseball basically every day for 6 months

You don't actually have to watch every game.

Multiball

No more imported foreign players
All players have to be born within the area of control of that team
No blacks

>We're not even at the halfway point and I'm already bored of baseball
>I love the sport
speak for yourself you crypto-tard, the best thing about MLB is that a game is always on. it's reliable, imagine having to shift your schedule around every week to make time for a fucking sports match

>more Latino people
fixed that for you ya cabron