I agree with some of these suggestions mostly about the no blackouts. MILB is unionized now as of a few years ago so it has gotten better since

30 comments

  1. All good points here

    I’d like to not have to jump through hoops to watch a game and I’d like to be able to go regularly since 81 games is enough for cheap tickets.

    Then again my university has a partnership with the Angels

  4. I’ve never heard anyone discuss an in season tournament before. Is that under consideration? I’ll freak the fuck out if they do an in season tournament

  5. Where’s salary cap? Or is this a big market team demand? How do you lower ticket prices if the salaries aren’t put under control? That’s pretty basic math there.

  10. From BSBLR, which is “where current and former MLB players can speak freely”.

    Not a problem, but just noting that this list is going to be pro player.

    As per the in-season tournament. I agree its dumb and something that the owners can later drop as a “concession” to get more of what they want

  12. Unless MLB has a solution to owners who want to win vs owners who only run a business and dont truly care about winning a WS, there shouldn’t be any chatter about salary caps/floors

  13. Unpopular opinion, I like the HOF selection for how controversial and it’s something to talk about every single year. I rather the Baseball HOF be selective over becoming the basketball HOF where you write a few columns and you are considered for the HOF. Don’t get me wrong, baseball’s writers are truly full of shit at times, but it’s fun seeing why some moron didn’t vote for Ichiro to the debates about steroid players.

    100% on blackouts, prices, and umpire accountability.

    Rest, I am more indifferent. All Star is mostly a fan vote, and it will always be flawed. Unwritten rules means it becomes legal, and then you have more debates on that. Sometimes sports need some cultural unwritten rules imo.

  15. What does formalized “unwritten rules”. Stop clock on home run trots? No throwing at batters with multi homer game? No sign stealing? What’s this blasphemy?

  17. I don’t know why people dislike Manfred so much. Baseball got quicker, we’re getting the robo-umps, what’s not to like? Who goes to a game and says this is so bad? Just the usual Reddit naysayers.

  18. Ya we don’t need an in season tournament. But we definitely need a salary floor, maybe not a set dollar about but percentage of team revenue. And yes better all star selections.. Fans have proven they’re terrible at selecting all stars. Leave it in the hands of MLB Network. If they still want to include fans have them give a top 3 or 5 at each position for the fans to vote on. Or have pitchers selected by opposing teams or managers

  19. Season already goes too late into the year. NBA doesn’t even care about that bs tournament. Its dumb

  20. “Lower prices, fuller stadiums” sounds like a common-sense solution but I wonder whether it would work. On a day when PNC Park has 12,000 attendance out of 38,000 capacity, is it really the case there are 26,000 people who would have gone to the game if ticket prices were lower? Are there even 10,000? I suspect in a lot of markets it would just decrease revenue for no purpose.

  22. Neither cap nor floor is going to happen. Floor will be too high for the cheap owners a cap will be too low for the rich owners. If you can’t get all the owners to agree on something realistic, players aren’t signing up for that either.

  23. MLB also does NOT need:

    -More than half the teams in the playoffs

    -Realignment to be like other sports

    -Both Texas teams in the same league (FU Selig)

    -Robots doing everything

  25. I’m happy it doesn’t say anything about a salary cap. I think a salary floor is more important

  27. I can go see a jays game for 20$ canadian, how much lower tickets prices do they want. Its lower than all the other major sports 

  28. Why does none of this mention addressing a HUGE issue?

    Actually being able to watch the games of your team? I say this all the time.

    I live in Southern AL. 5 hrs away from ATL and braves games are blacked out all the time.

    NFL and NBA got popular while baseball declined because it’s so hard to watch your own team compared to those too.

    I also, personally, wish baseball startes a month later and had about 30 less games, but that’ll never happen.

  29. • HOF is not a MLB entity, so that’s a moot point. Though I agree there should be a better, more consistent selection process.

    • 162 games is too many. Agree that the season should be shorter.

    • Keep the human umps.

    • An in-season tournament is stupid.

    • All-Star is synonymous with “popularity” in MLB. It’s definitely not about who is the best player statistically at each position, that’s for sure. Also, make the All-Star Game really mid-season.

    • I don’t have an opinion on salary floor/cap. If the owners pay them and the fans keep showing up — who’s to argue w/ a player’s salary?

    • Formalizing baseball’s unwritten rules is not a good idea. Who cares if Joe Player bunts to break up a no-hitter, or you swing for the fences in a blow-out? You bean my guy? I’m beaning yours. That’s baseball, baby.

  30. I actually laughed at “umpire accountability”. There is literally a website that publishes scorecards of every game by a homeplate umpire. Everyone talked about Angel Hernandez and how bad he was and he’s no longer an umpire. There is more scrutiny and accountability for the umpires than any other point in the league’s history.

Leave a Reply