If You Had The Power to Reorganize Baseball

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think moral sense necessitates the abandonment of an abandonment of the farm system. Why should the Mets decide who plays for the only professional baseball team in the great city of Buffalo? And Heaven forfend a player plays too well, because then the Mets arbitrarily take him away whenever they want.

[metsmarathon]

if we're renting out out promising young players to these lesser teams, how do we concern ourselves with organizational philosophies such as emphasizing either patience at the plate, or the opposite. also, how does a team ensure that its young stud pitcher isn't overused?

also, if a AAA team does sufficiently well, and is promoted, what becomes of the players they're renting from other teams? or is it cool, f'rinstance, for the mets to rent out a player to, say, the tampa rays?

i assume we're retaining the 25 man active roster, and i guess we'd keep the 40 man roster, so each ML team would have 15 players that could be rented out.

its kindof a cool idea, i think. the best part is that it would open up a ton of general manager positions, as now every minor league team would suddenly need one. surely one of us could land a gig somewhere!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I assume because he's smart, he loves the game and he appreciates its history.

Of course, there are many who fit that critera.

[Guest Edgy DC]

if we're renting out out promising young players to these lesser teams, how do we concern ourselves with organizational philosophies such as emphasizing either patience at the plate, or the opposite. also, how does a team ensure that its young stud pitcher isn't overused?

[metirish]

if we're renting out out promising young players to these lesser teams, how do we concern ourselves with organizational philosophies such as emphasizing either patience at the plate, or the opposite. also, how does a team ensure that its young stud pitcher isn't overused?

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Thay have what is called feeder teams , Manchester United regulary send young players for experience to Royal Antwerp FC in Belguim . In certain cases Man United would control how the playyer is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feeder_teams_in_football

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

-- I would ban the DH, but add two roster spots to each team so they can carry two sluggers who can't field, as long as Jason Giambi isn't one of them.

-- I would add a "living legend" clause to the All-Star teams to allow someone like Ken Griffey Jr. to get that national curtain call in his final year.

-- I want no part of a salary cap. I do want a "Jeter Cap" on all columns by Tom Verducci and Bob Klapisch, limiting them to one fawning, gag-worthy column about Jeter per week.

-- I have no problem with the idea of inter-league play. But instead of the current system, where you play another division except for your alleged rivals, I'd try to balance things more. The Mets get hosed when they have to play the MFYs six times, and some other team gets the Orioles or some other scrub bunch. Pick a rivalry, but try to have some fairness. If the Mets play an AL team that wins 90 games or more the year before, then everyone else in the division should, too.

-- I'd lift the "lifetime" ban on Pete Rose to allow the Hall to recognize the accomplishments during his playing career -- not his tainted managing career -- and allow Reds to finally salute him, rather than all the back-door salutes they have now.

-- All World Series trophies should be awarded on the field after the game -- instead of in a locker room -- so the fans can see it. Hockey gets this right.

-- Day/night double headers are an abomination to all that is good in life.

-- Any fan caught doing the wave must go stand on line at the concession stand and bring back a hot dog or Diet Coke for a real fan in his section. Because if you're lame enough to do the wave, you're not watching the ballgame anyway and should be doing something productive.

-- Fox shall be prohibited from pretending the cast members from their new shows just happened to be sitting together in the front row during World Series games. You want to run an ad for your shows, fine. Run ads between innings. But don't subject us to faux ads during the game. And the little pop-up ads in the corners of the screens also shall be banned.

-- Ballpark gates must be opened in time for the first pitch of batting practice.

-- Yankee fans wearing Yankees jerseys to Mets games shall be charged double their tickets face value before they can enter. It's like paying out-state-tuition for college, and just as justifiable. Andy any Yankee fan wearing a Yankee jersey with a player's name on the back must pay an additional fee, because they obviously need remedial help.

-- If a player earns 95 percent in his first time on the Hall of Fame ballot, the people in the five percent who didn't vote for that player shall be stripped of their ballot. I call this the Seaver-Mays-Aaron rule. Writers who didn't vote for these players are too stupid to be taken seriously and clearly don't deserve a vote.

-- Also, if a player receives 2 or fewer votes for the Hall of Fame, those writers, too, shall be stripped of their ballots.

Now, after my second hour on the job...

[metirish]

Fox shall be prohibited from pretending the cast members from their new shows just happened to be sitting together in the front row during World Series games

love , love , love this clause

[Guest Edgy DC]

-- If a player earns 95 percent in his first time on the Hall of Fame ballot, the people in the five percent who didn't vote for that player shall be stripped of their ballot. I call this the Seaver-Mays-Aaron rule. Writers who didn't vote for these players are too stupid to be taken seriously and clearly don't deserve a vote.

-- Also, if a player receives 2 or fewer votes for the Hall of Fame, those writers, too, shall be stripped of their ballots.[/quote:96u6cfh1]

I'm deeply on record as seriously opposed to this sort of pruning. More harm than good. Much more.

[HahnSolo]

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-- All World Series trophies should be awarded on the field after the game -- instead of in a locker room -- so the fans can see it. Hockey gets this right.g something productive.

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No, no, no. Yes, hockey gets it right, but it's their tradition. Football and basketball have recently tried to copy the NHL, and to me it looks way too forced. And it is not nearly as exciting to see Terry Bradshaw incoherently introduce Dan Rooney as it is for Gary Bettman to call up the team captain to raise the Stanley Cup.

[metsmarathon]

i'm sold. consider me on board the relegation/promotion system. i think it'd be shitloads of fun. and its also make much more sense than teams realigning their minor league affiliations every so often.

and then there's the chance that some little scrub regional-independent league team, like the sussex skyhawks, working their way up into the bigtime!

i'd send my resume to them first!

i do like the idea of freeing the less-top-prospecty minor leaguers from the preconceived notions of their major league masters.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

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-- All World Series trophies should be awarded on the field after the game -- instead of in a locker room -- so the fans can see it. Hockey gets this right.g something productive.

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No, no, no. Yes, hockey gets it right, but it's their tradition. Football and basketball have recently tried to copy the NHL, and to me it looks way too forced. And it is not nearly as exciting to see Terry Bradshaw incoherently introduce Dan Rooney as it is for Gary Bettman to call up the team captain to raise the Stanley Cup.[/quote:26jbl8vk]

A big reason this doesn't work as well in football-- I'd argue it works decently in basketball-- is that it's in front of a neutral-site, corp-partner-packed crowd.

It would work in baseball-- in front of a rabid home crowd/away crowd-- just fine, I suspect.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fox shall be prohibited from pretending the cast members from their new shows just happened to be sitting together in the front row during World Series games[/quote:jqbkbdvp]

I'm guessing this will be a very Gleeful fall classic.

[MFS62]

But if you tried to drink beer out of the World Series trophy, you'd probably poke your eye out.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

But if you tried to drink beer out of the World Series trophy, you'd probably poke your eye out.

Later[/quote:3dg6mlds]

That's what straws are for.