Posted by tecwrg on 7/18/2014 10:38:00 AM (view original):
Bud will be retiring and stepping down in another six months or so. We should help him by putting together a "to-do" list for his final days in office. I'll start.
1) Apologize for overseeing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2) Apologize for the Steroid Era.
3) Apologize for interleague play.
4) Apologize for moving the Brewers to the NL and the Astros to the AL.
5) Apologize for 15 team leagues, which mandates interleague play throughout the entire season.
6) Apologize for the "All-Star game determines WS home field" nonsense.
7) Apologize for not speeding up the length of games.
8) Apologize for not moving up the start times for WS games so that they don't end after midnight on the east coast.
9) Apologize for the "no collisions at home plate" rule.
10) Apologize for not standardizing on DH or no DH across leagues.
11) Apologize for not reinstating Pete Rose.
12) Apologize for not retiring sooner.
What have I missed?
1) Agree
2) One could argue that without the steroid era, baseball doesn't bounce back as well after the strike. It's an era in the record books, after time we'll make peace with it.
3) It was very popular for a while. Good move.
4) Who cares?
5) Piggybacking off 4 - moving Astros made sense. Makes it fair. Something I had been arguing for a while.
6) I like the idea of making players try in these games. I agree it's a pretty dumb way of doing it though.
7) Depends how you'd speed it up.
8) It's a money thing. We want the west coast to watch too.
9) That's a clusterfuck that needs to be clarified.
10) Yes, that needs to be uniform.
11) I disagree.
12) Meh.