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There are quite a few things that I would like to see in the world of sports. A lot of people love to see changes such as the new instant replay wars that are currently being fought in the MLB. Then, there are those that like to stick with tradition and would rather not see changes plague their sport. I agree with the first group of fans, and though I love tradition, I would love to see changes that would make certain sports better.

First, there are three main things I would like to see change in Baseball.

The first baseball related aspect that I would change, has to do with the World Baseball Classic.

Every few years, the world comes together to take part in the Baseball World Classic. The WBC is a tradition that has been going on for the past eight years and seems to be growing. However, the WBC does seem to be imposing a few challenges on MLB.

One of these challenges is that the WBC Takes place during Spring Training, a time that is meant for all MLB players to get ready for the upcoming season. Those who are picked to represent their country will now have to miss some of that valuable playing time to play overseas.

Another problem in this sense would be rookies and prospects who are chosen to play in the WBC because Spring training means even more to them than veteran players because it is a time for them to show their worth to the team.

How do we fix this? By moving parts of the WBC to another month, maybe even during All Star Week. Imagine having the All Star Futures Game and the Legends softball game on Saturday and having the WBC Championship on Sunday, which would then be followed by the Home Run Derby and the All Star Game on Monday and Tuesday.

Maybe we can move both the Championship game and the Semi Finals to All Star week, this would allow all of the players to get a few extra days with their teams before the season starts. If the semi finals are used as well, one semi final matchup would be held Friday afternoon while the second match would be held that evening. The Championship match will be played Saturday and then regular All Star week festivities would begin.

Not only would this be a great way to help the players stay with their teams longer, but a lot of revenue would be raised.
The Finals were played at AT&T park in front of roughly 35,000 fans. That’s not a bad number, but if you squeeze the final three games during the All Star Week, a lot more fans would end up watching the game because just by placing it days before the All Star Game, it will feel more energized to the fans.

The second way to Improve the MLB would be to add another team to each League. Each league would now have 16 teams, and would be split into four divisions of four teams each. With fewer teams in each division, the competition would most likely be greater because some divisions may play well and have all four teams within 5-10 games of 1st place.

If there are four divisions, there would really be no need for a wild card spot because each league will now have four playoff spots, one from each division. However, there is a way to keep the five team playoff format that MLB now has, but there will also be a way to have six teams in each league compete in the playoffs.

This will equate to four division leaders and two Wild card teams.

The Wild Card series will have each pair of teams play a best of three series. After this, each league will have three teams remaining. During the Division series each team will play each other team once. As an example, let’s say we have the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Braves left.

On Day one, the Dodgers play the Braves and the Cardinals get off. Day two, we see the Cardinals play the Dodgers while the Braves get off. On the final day, the Cardinals play the Braves, and the Dodgers are off. This format will allow all games to be played over the course of three days with each team getting a day off.

The two teams with the best record go on to the Championship series. This is where it gets tricky, if all three teams win one game apiece, the team with the worst regular season record will be eliminated and the other two go on to the Championship series.

The Championship series will be best of five, and then the World Series will stay as a best of 7 series. Some might say that having these four series will extend the length of the playoffs, but instead it will actually shorten it.

This is because the most games that can be played during the current structure is 20 which is from one wild card game, five division games, and seven games for both the Championship series and World Series.

This 12 team playoff structure consists of three game Wild Card, three game Division Series (Two per team), five game Championship series, and a seven game World Series for a maximum total of 18 games.

It would also be possible to have the Championship Series stay at seven games and then the playoff structure would also have 20 games.
There are many other ways that the MLB can be improved upon, but these are the biggest two.

The last one is not really an improvement, but I would like to see an award named after Mariano Rivera. Cy Young was an amazing pitcher and he had an award named after him. Rivera was a great closer so he should have the closer of the year award named after him because that would be the best retirement gift that anybody could ever get, your own award.

After his retirement, Rivera will be celebrated not as one of the great closers in history, but as The greatest. Rivera will leave behind a legacy that can only be compared to by a few players, one of which is none other than Babe Ruth, one of the greatest hitters of the game.

Earlier during the year, I had found a really interesting article on Rivera in an online New Jersey newspaper. The article had been written by Steve Politi and he states, "There is no but with Ruth and Rivera. They set the standard at what they do — Ruth at hitting the ball over the outfield fence, Rivera at emerging from behind it to trot to the mound." I found the article earlier in the year, but the actual statement had been made in 2011, right before Rivera recorded his record breaking 602nd save.

Rivera now has a record of 82-60 as a reliever, I don't think many other relievers even came close to 50 wins. He has thrown more than eleven hundred strikeouts, played in more games that anybody, (952) and has saved 652 games.

By the way, this is just a side note, but one day, I was able to take a picture of Rivera while I was on the field. I won a contest at the T-Mobile All Star Fan Fest and I won two tickets to the Home Run Derby at Citi Field. I also had the chance to compete on the field with another guy. It was a great feeling, Alex Gordon was standing directly in front of me and Rivera was standing just about 20 or so feet to my right. I am so happy that I was able to get a picture of him on that day.

Now on to the N.C.A.A

Currently, there is a huge debate on whether or not Student Athletes should be paid for participating in N.C.A.A. Sporting Events. There are some who believe that an athletic scholarship is all that a student needs while there are some who say that an athletic scholarship is nothing compared to how much money the N.C.A.A. pulls in each year per student.

During the final few days of September 2013, EA Sports and another sports licensing company settled with Student Athletes, which leaves the N.C.A.A. defending itself on its own. Because of this, drastic changes will begin all over colleges across America if the N.C.A.A. either loses the lawsuit or settles.

It hasn’t happened yet, though there is a simple way on how colleges could pay their athletes. Let’s pick a football conference with eight teams and have that conference pick a maximum amount that the schools would pay each player.

Let’s say that this maximum amount is five thousand dollars, each school would give the conference five thousand dollars per student and the conference would hold that money until the end of the season. At the end of the season, the money will be distributed to the players based on what place their schools have finished in.

The school that finishes in first place will get the maximum amount, which means that each athlete will receive the full five thousand dollars. The team that finishes in second place will distribute ninety percent of the amount to its players. Therefore each athlete of the second place team will receive a total of forty five hundred dollars.

The amount will decrease by ten percent per place all the way down to the team that finishes in eighth place. Each of their athletes will receive thirty percent of the maximum amount, or fifteen hundred dollars.

Each team puts in five thousand dollars per player, so what happens to the extra money that each of the bottom teams puts in? Each team will receive the extra money back, however they may have restrictions. This means that the last place team will get thirty five hundred dollars back per player.

Every now and then we have a good player who plays for a bad team, so how do we compensate for a player who played for the eighth place team, received fifteen hundred dollars, and led the conference in a certain stat? The answer is quite simple and is the basis of those restrictions mentioned earlier.

If a player leads the conference in a major stat but plays for a team that finishes in the bottom half of the conference, that player will be required to be given a percentage of the refund that their school received.

The eighth place school receives a thirty five hundred dollar refund per player, and there is a five hundred dollar decrease per place. This means that the fifth place team, the first of the bottom half will receive a refund of two thousand dollars.

Therefore, a conference leader could be paid a one thousand dollar bonus for being on the eighth place team with a two hundred dollars decrease per place which means a leader on the fifth place team will receive a two hundred dollar bonus.

It would also be possible for second place stat finishers to get a reward at a fifty percent rate which means five hundred dollars for playing on the eighth place team and one hundred dollars for playing on the fifth place team, and maybe even a twenty five percent rate for third place finishers.

There has also been a lot of talk that if athletes of big sports such as football and basketball were paid, then athletes of all other sports would have to be paid as well, no matter how small the sport.

This can also be fixed with the conference setting a maximum reward for each sport. With this, any given school in a certain conference could have a maximum amount of five thousand dollars for football and basketball, maybe two thousand dollars for baseball and soccer, and maybe even five hundred dollars for sports as small as Swimming and Volleyball.

Who knows, maybe a format like this would help the athletes, Colleges, and N.C.A.A.

Now on to the NFL.

This is not really a change, but it is the prevention of a change. The NFL has recently been talking about expanding the playoffs which I see as a really bad idea because the season would take longer, and there are a lot of people who do not want to play their playoff games in even colder weather than they do now. I don't really know much about this sudden change, but I am still very much against it, having more games being played can also further impact a players risk of injury.

Now back to baseball for a while.

I would love to see the Hall of Fame change in baseball. The Hall of Fame is meant to be a place where all of the legends are immortalized and put on a pedestal for the world to see them and their greatness. However, I believe that there are simply to many people in the Hall of Fame. Did you know that there are more than three hundred Hall of Fame members? I looked over that list recently, and I barely recognized even a hundred of them. Some of these people did not even hit one hundred home runs or won one hundred games, and through all the research I did on these people, I can't seem to find a single reason for them to be in the Hall of Fame.

I believe there should be a minimum amount of a certain stat in order to be elected to the Hall of Fame. For instance, I believe that as a batter, you must hit at least five hundred home runs or three thousand hits in order to be elected to the Hall of Fame. I would give some leeway with this, I would say that 500 and 3000 means that you are guaranteed to be in the Hall of Fame, while 450 home runs or 2500 hits does not guarantee Hall of fame entry, but will allow for the review of that player to see if he is good enough for the Hall of Fame.

For pitchers, the minimum would be three hundred wins or three thousand strikeouts. In addition, players may also be inducted based on achievement and journey. For instance, I would choose Andy Petitte and his 200 wins because of all the years that he played with the Yankees and helped them get to the World Series. I would also allow R.A. Dickey to be in the Hall of Fame just because of his story and what he had to do to get to where he is now.

Current, or recently retired pitchers I would allow into the Hall of Fame include Mariano Rivera, R.A. Dickey, Randy Johnson, Jamie Moyer, and I might even think of letting Johan Santana in.

Ahh, Jamie Moyer. He only has 269 wins, but if anybody deserves to get to the Hall of Fame, it is that guy. He has played longer than any pitcher in probably the last 50 or so years. For example, the guy last pitched in a game I believe last year. He also pitched a game during the Mets won their last World Series!!! That's all the way back in 1986! More than 25 years ago. That is dedication, not only that, he holds the record now for oldest pitcher to record a win, and oldest player to get an RBI.

What's even weirder about this guy is that earlier in September, it was rumored that he was going to attempt to comeback as a knuckleball pitcher, and later in the month, opposed to those rumors, Moyer had somewhat officially retired. Such stats make him an easy pick for the Hall of Fame once he is eligible.

Now for the batters, first off I would pick Mike Piazza. He has not played for a while, but it was not fair that he was not elected last year, his first year of eligibility. I would definenlty pick Derek Jeter, three thousand hits. I would also pick Albert Pujols and possibly Robinson Cano given he plays at his current rate for just a few more years. I would also pick David Wright of the New York Mets.

Not a lot of people say that Wright can make it to the Hall of fame, but the odds are greatly in his favor. At the end of this 2013 season, Wright has 1558 hits with 7 years left on his current contract. This means that if he averages just 150 hits per year, his current contract will end with a whopping total of 2600 hits, which would be no more than three more seasons away from 3000. Wright has hit 222 home runs, with at least 14 during 9 of his 10 seasons, and 20 during 6 seasons. If Wright only averages just over 10 for the rest of his contract, he could easily retire with 300 home runs, and perhaps even 350.

Doubles are Wright's strong point, he has 345, and has averaged just over 34 per season. If he was to average just 20 over his next 7 seasons, he would finish with at least 480 and as high as 550, which could very well be in the top 30 all time.

Back to the main point, if I could, I would get rid of some people in the Hall of Fame. Though I would still keep memories of them.

I would also have the Hall of Fame induction ceremony once every four years, with up to five players being inducted each time, unless there is a special vote saying that more people have the stats to qualify.

For the inaugural induction, I would start with perhaps 30 players. Here is a list of who the first batch would include, with their old induction year.

1936-1938 Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, and Cy Young.
1939-1955 Lou Gherig, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Fox, Dizzy Dean, and Joe Dimaggio.
1956-1975 Hank Greenberg, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Satchel Paige, Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, Warren Sphan, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Ralph Kiner.
1976-1990 Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Hank, Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, Lou Brock, Catfish Hunter, Carl Yaztremetski, and Johnny Bench.
1991-2000 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson, Steve Carlton, Phil Niekro, and Nolan Ryan.
2001-NOW Gary Carter, Wade Boggs, and Cal Ripken.

During the second ceremony four years later, I would induct five old players, (Those who have retired at least 10 years before the change) and five recently retired players. I would also induct a few managers. The list of managers that I would induct first would include Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Tom Lasorda, Joe Torre, and Tony Larusa.

I know that there is this one group of players that are elected to the Hall of Fame by a group of people known as Veterans, but I have not heard of a single one of these players. Most of them played all the way back during the 1800's and I don't really know any players that far back.

I am sorry, but I am going to be honest here when I say that I would not keep them in the Hall of Fame. Sure, it is true that some of these people were there when baseball had first come into existence, but some of them simply have no stats to show off. Some of these people barely even have more than 10 home runs during their career. I simply would not let them in, again because I believe that the best when it comes to stats are allowed, and with the occasion, something big that they did.

Personally, I have never heard of what these people have done and I believe that if people can't understand how somebody's actions affected baseball as a whole, then they don't really deserve to be in the Hall of Fame if they do not have the stats.

Opposed to the three hundred or so current members in the Hall of Fame, my version of it would only have a hundred members or less. I would not want to go above that number because then the individual value of each member will begin to go down. This is like the value of baseball cards from the late 80's. The more cards there are, the less the value of each card. That is the same here, the more members there are, the less value there is for each member. I do not want that to happen, I do not want some of these legends to end up losing some of that value that they have worked so hard to achieve over their long, celebrated careers.

There are many more changes that I would like to see made throughout the world of sports, and maybe, as a Sport management major, I can someday be part of these changes. But for now, all these changes are just simple ideas that are floating around inside my head.
There are quite a few things that I would like to see in the world of sports. A lot of people love to see changes such as the new instant replay wars that are currently being fought in the MLB. Then, there are those that like to stick with tradition and would rather not see changes plague their sport. I agree with the first group of fans, and though I love tradition, I would love to see changes that would make certain sports better.

First, there are three main things I would like to see change in Baseball.

The first baseball related aspect that I would change, has to do with the World Baseball Classic.

Every few years, the world comes together to take part in the Baseball World Classic. The WBC is a tradition that has been going on for the past eight years and seems to be growing. However, the WBC does seem to be imposing a few challenges on MLB.

One of these challenges is that the WBC Takes place during Spring Training, a time that is meant for all MLB players to get ready for the upcoming season. Those who are picked to represent their country will now have to miss some of that valuable playing time to play overseas.

Another problem in this sense would be rookies and prospects who are chosen to play in the WBC because Spring training means even more to them than veteran players because it is a time for them to show their worth to the team.

How do we fix this? By moving parts of the WBC to another month, maybe even during All Star Week. Imagine having the All Star Futures Game and the Legends softball game on Saturday and having the WBC Championship on Sunday, which would then be followed by the Home Run Derby and the All Star Game on Monday and Tuesday.

Maybe we can move both the Championship game and the Semi Finals to All Star week, this would allow all of the players to get a few extra days with their teams before the season starts. If the semi finals are used as well, one semi final matchup would be held Friday afternoon while the second match would be held that evening. The Championship match will be played Saturday and then regular All Star week festivities would begin.

Not only would this be a great way to help the players stay with their teams longer, but a lot of revenue would be raised.
The Finals were played at AT&T park in front of roughly 35,000 fans. That’s not a bad number, but if you squeeze the final three games during the All Star Week, a lot more fans would end up watching the game because just by placing it days before the All Star Game, it will feel more energized to the fans.

The second way to Improve the MLB would be to add another team to each League. Each league would now have 16 teams, and would be split into four divisions of four teams each. With fewer teams in each division, the competition would most likely be greater because some divisions may play well and have all four teams within 5-10 games of 1st place.

If there are four divisions, there would really be no need for a wild card spot because each league will now have four playoff spots, one from each division. However, there is a way to keep the five team playoff format that MLB now has, but there will also be a way to have six teams in each league compete in the playoffs.

This will equate to four division leaders and two Wild card teams.

The Wild Card series will have each pair of teams play a best of three series. After this, each league will have three teams remaining. During the Division series each team will play each other team once. As an example, let’s say we have the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Braves left.

On Day one, the Dodgers play the Braves and the Cardinals get off. Day two, we see the Cardinals play the Dodgers while the Braves get off. On the final day, the Cardinals play the Braves, and the Dodgers are off. This format will allow all games to be played over the course of three days with each team getting a day off.

The two teams with the best record go on to the Championship series. This is where it gets tricky, if all three teams win one game apiece, the team with the worst regular season record will be eliminated and the other two go on to the Championship series.

The Championship series will be best of five, and then the World Series will stay as a best of 7 series. Some might say that having these four series will extend the length of the playoffs, but instead it will actually shorten it.

This is because the most games that can be played during the current structure is 20 which is from one wild card game, five division games, and seven games for both the Championship series and World Series.

This 12 team playoff structure consists of three game Wild Card, three game Division Series (Two per team), five game Championship series, and a seven game World Series for a maximum total of 18 games.

It would also be possible to have the Championship Series stay at seven games and then the playoff structure would also have 20 games.
There are many other ways that the MLB can be improved upon, but these are the biggest two.

The last one is not really an improvement, but I would like to see an award named after Mariano Rivera. Cy Young was an amazing pitcher and he had an award named after him. Rivera was a great closer so he should have the closer of the year award named after him because that would be the best retirement gift that anybody could ever get, your own award.

After his retirement, Rivera will be celebrated not as one of the great closers in history, but as The greatest. Rivera will leave behind a legacy that can only be compared to by a few players, one of which is none other than Babe Ruth, one of the greatest hitters of the game.

Earlier during the year, I had found a really interesting article on Rivera in an online New Jersey newspaper. The article had been written by Steve Politi and he states, "There is no but with Ruth and Rivera. They set the standard at what they do — Ruth at hitting the ball over the outfield fence, Rivera at emerging from behind it to trot to the mound." I found the article earlier in the year, but the actual statement had been made in 2011, right before Rivera recorded his record breaking 602nd save.

Rivera now has a record of 82-60 as a reliever, I don't think many other relievers even came close to 50 wins. He has thrown more than eleven hundred strikeouts, played in more games that anybody, (952) and has saved 652 games.

By the way, this is just a side note, but one day, I was able to take a picture of Rivera while I was on the field. I won a contest at the T-Mobile All Star Fan Fest and I won two tickets to the Home Run Derby at Citi Field. I also had the chance to compete on the field with another guy. It was a great feeling, Alex Gordon was standing directly in front of me and Rivera was standing just about 20 or so feet to my right. I am so happy that I was able to get a picture of him on that day.

Now on to the N.C.A.A

Currently, there is a huge debate on whether or not Student Athletes should be paid for participating in N.C.A.A. Sporting Events. There are some who believe that an athletic scholarship is all that a student needs while there are some who say that an athletic scholarship is nothing compared to how much money the N.C.A.A. pulls in each year per student.

During the final few days of September 2013, EA Sports and another sports licensing company settled with Student Athletes, which leaves the N.C.A.A. defending itself on its own. Because of this, drastic changes will begin all over colleges across America if the N.C.A.A. either loses the lawsuit or settles.

It hasn’t happened yet, though there is a simple way on how colleges could pay their athletes. Let’s pick a football conference with eight teams and have that conference pick a maximum amount that the schools would pay each player.

Let’s say that this maximum amount is five thousand dollars, each school would give the conference five thousand dollars per student and the conference would hold that money until the end of the season. At the end of the season, the money will be distributed to the players based on what place their schools have finished in.

The school that finishes in first place will get the maximum amount, which means that each athlete will receive the full five thousand dollars. The team that finishes in second place will distribute ninety percent of the amount to its players. Therefore each athlete of the second place team will receive a total of forty five hundred dollars.

The amount will decrease by ten percent per place all the way down to the team that finishes in eighth place. Each of their athletes will receive thirty percent of the maximum amount, or fifteen hundred dollars.

Each team puts in five thousand dollars per player, so what happens to the extra money that each of the bottom teams puts in? Each team will receive the extra money back, however they may have restrictions. This means that the last place team will get thirty five hundred dollars back per player.

Every now and then we have a good player who plays for a bad team, so how do we compensate for a player who played for the eighth place team, received fifteen hundred dollars, and led the conference in a certain stat? The answer is quite simple and is the basis of those restrictions mentioned earlier.

If a player leads the conference in a major stat but plays for a team that finishes in the bottom half of the conference, that player will be required to be given a percentage of the refund that their school received.

The eighth place school receives a thirty five hundred dollar refund per player, and there is a five hundred dollar decrease per place. This means that the fifth place team, the first of the bottom half will receive a refund of two thousand dollars.

Therefore, a conference leader could be paid a one thousand dollar bonus for being on the eighth place team with a two hundred dollars decrease per place which means a leader on the fifth place team will receive a two hundred dollar bonus.

It would also be possible for second place stat finishers to get a reward at a fifty percent rate which means five hundred dollars for playing on the eighth place team and one hundred dollars for playing on the fifth place team, and maybe even a twenty five percent rate for third place finishers.

There has also been a lot of talk that if athletes of big sports such as football and basketball were paid, then athletes of all other sports would have to be paid as well, no matter how small the sport.

This can also be fixed with the conference setting a maximum reward for each sport. With this, any given school in a certain conference could have a maximum amount of five thousand dollars for football and basketball, maybe two thousand dollars for baseball and soccer, and maybe even five hundred dollars for sports as small as Swimming and Volleyball.

Who knows, maybe a format like this would help the athletes, Colleges, and N.C.A.A.

Now on to the NFL.

This is not really a change, but it is the prevention of a change. The NFL has recently been talking about expanding the playoffs which I see as a really bad idea because the season would take longer, and there are a lot of people who do not want to play their playoff games in even colder weather than they do now. I don't really know much about this sudden change, but I am still very much against it, having more games being played can also further impact a players risk of injury.

Now back to baseball for a while.

I would love to see the Hall of Fame change in baseball. The Hall of Fame is meant to be a place where all of the legends are immortalized and put on a pedestal for the world to see them and their greatness. However, I believe that there are simply to many people in the Hall of Fame. Did you know that there are more than three hundred Hall of Fame members? I looked over that list recently, and I barely recognized even a hundred of them. Some of these people did not even hit one hundred home runs or won one hundred games, and through all the research I did on these people, I can't seem to find a single reason for them to be in the Hall of Fame.

I believe there should be a minimum amount of a certain stat in order to be elected to the Hall of Fame. For instance, I believe that as a batter, you must hit at least five hundred home runs or three thousand hits in order to be elected to the Hall of Fame. I would give some leeway with this, I would say that 500 and 3000 means that you are guaranteed to be in the Hall of Fame, while 450 home runs or 2500 hits does not guarantee Hall of fame entry, but will allow for the review of that player to see if he is good enough for the Hall of Fame.

For pitchers, the minimum would be three hundred wins or three thousand strikeouts. In addition, players may also be inducted based on achievement and journey. For instance, I would choose Andy Petitte and his 200 wins because of all the years that he played with the Yankees and helped them get to the World Series. I would also allow R.A. Dickey to be in the Hall of Fame just because of his story and what he had to do to get to where he is now.

Current, or recently retired pitchers I would allow into the Hall of Fame include Mariano Rivera, R.A. Dickey, Randy Johnson, Jamie Moyer, and I might even think of letting Johan Santana in.

Ahh, Jamie Moyer. He only has 269 wins, but if anybody deserves to get to the Hall of Fame, it is that guy. He has played longer than any pitcher in probably the last 50 or so years. For example, the guy last pitched in a game I believe last year. He also pitched a game during the Mets won their last World Series!!! That's all the way back in 1986! More than 25 years ago. That is dedication, not only that, he holds the record now for oldest pitcher to record a win, and oldest player to get an RBI.

What's even weirder about this guy is that earlier in September, it was rumored that he was going to attempt to comeback as a knuckleball pitcher, and later in the month, opposed to those rumors, Moyer had somewhat officially retired. Such stats make him an easy pick for the Hall of Fame once he is eligible.

Now for the batters, first off I would pick Mike Piazza. He has not played for a while, but it was not fair that he was not elected last year, his first year of eligibility. I would definenlty pick Derek Jeter, three thousand hits. I would also pick Albert Pujols and possibly Robinson Cano given he plays at his current rate for just a few more years. I would also pick David Wright of the New York Mets.

Not a lot of people say that Wright can make it to the Hall of fame, but the odds are greatly in his favor. At the end of this 2013 season, Wright has 1558 hits with 7 years left on his current contract. This means that if he averages just 150 hits per year, his current contract will end with a whopping total of 2600 hits, which would be no more than three more seasons away from 3000. Wright has hit 222 home runs, with at least 14 during 9 of his 10 seasons, and 20 during 6 seasons. If Wright only averages just over 10 for the rest of his contract, he could easily retire with 300 home runs, and perhaps even 350.

Doubles are Wright's strong point, he has 345, and has averaged just over 34 per season. If he was to average just 20 over his next 7 seasons, he would finish with at least 480 and as high as 550, which could very well be in the top 30 all time.

Back to the main point, if I could, I would get rid of some people in the Hall of Fame. Though I would still keep memories of them.

I would also have the Hall of Fame induction ceremony once every four years, with up to five players being inducted each time, unless there is a special vote saying that more people have the stats to qualify.

For the inaugural induction, I would start with perhaps 30 players. Here is a list of who the first batch would include, with their old induction year.

1936-1938 Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, and Cy Young.
1939-1955 Lou Gherig, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Fox, Dizzy Dean, and Joe Dimaggio.
1956-1975 Hank Greenberg, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Satchel Paige, Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, Warren Sphan, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Ralph Kiner.
1976-1990 Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Hank, Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, Lou Brock, Catfish Hunter, Carl Yaztremetski, and Johnny Bench.
1991-2000 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson, Steve Carlton, Phil Niekro, and Nolan Ryan.
2001-NOW Gary Carter, Wade Boggs, and Cal Ripken.

During the second ceremony four years later, I would induct five old players, (Those who have retired at least 10 years before the change) and five recently retired players. I would also induct a few managers. The list of managers that I would induct first would include Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Tom Lasorda, Joe Torre, and Tony Larusa.

I know that there is this one group of players that are elected to the Hall of Fame by a group of people known as Veterans, but I have not heard of a single one of these players. Most of them played all the way back during the 1800's and I don't really know any players that far back.

I am sorry, but I am going to be honest here when I say that I would not keep them in the Hall of Fame. Sure, it is true that some of these people were there when baseball had first come into existence, but some of them simply have no stats to show off. Some of these people barely even have more than 10 home runs during their career. I simply would not let them in, again because I believe that the best when it comes to stats are allowed, and with the occasion, something big that they did.

Personally, I have never heard of what these people have done and I believe that if people can't understand how somebody's actions affected baseball as a whole, then they don't really deserve to be in the Hall of Fame if they do not have the stats.

Opposed to the three hundred or so current members in the Hall of Fame, my version of it would only have a hundred members or less. I would not want to go above that number because then the individual value of each member will begin to go down. This is like the value of baseball cards from the late 80's. The more cards there are, the less the value of each card. That is the same here, the more members there are, the less value there is for each member. I do not want that to happen, I do not want some of these legends to end up losing some of that value that they have worked so hard to achieve over their long, celebrated careers.

There are many more changes that I would like to see made throughout the world of sports, and maybe, as a Sport management major, I can someday be part of these changes. But for now, all these changes are just simple ideas that are floating around inside my head.
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zanderlex : I would like wrestling to be REAL. Not all that fake blood and whatnot. its just really annoying when people are all like " BLABLABLA WRESTLING IS AWESOME BLABLABLA WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS FAKE BLABLABLABAAAA" I just get ticked.    
That would be awesome for it to be real

zanderlex : I would like wrestling to be REAL. Not all that fake blood and whatnot. its just really annoying when people are all like " BLABLABLA WRESTLING IS AWESOME BLABLABLA WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS FAKE BLABLABLABAAAA" I just get ticked.    
That would be awesome for it to be real
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Yeah i don't really like wrestling that much to be honest, but they could at least make it real instead of with blood and all this other nonsense. I agree wit you in several points here throughout your huge rant. I mean the baseball in the WBC. I mean there are just so many things I think would just be better off differently.

I also agree about having another league and making it an equal, even 16. I think that would help greatly. You make a lot of good arguments in this thread. I think may people will also agree with you. This is extremely wrong and you are really detailed in your reasons that things should be changed.Good job though. Detail is always good.
Yeah i don't really like wrestling that much to be honest, but they could at least make it real instead of with blood and all this other nonsense. I agree wit you in several points here throughout your huge rant. I mean the baseball in the WBC. I mean there are just so many things I think would just be better off differently.

I also agree about having another league and making it an equal, even 16. I think that would help greatly. You make a lot of good arguments in this thread. I think may people will also agree with you. This is extremely wrong and you are really detailed in your reasons that things should be changed.Good job though. Detail is always good.
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 Like wrestling for instance....back in the day it was all good but now....its fake to me and has lost some things there as well......there are some things in sports that can not be right most of the time and needs change....
 Like wrestling for instance....back in the day it was all good but now....its fake to me and has lost some things there as well......there are some things in sports that can not be right most of the time and needs change....
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Let me comment:

The world baseball classic doesn't mean anything.  And if you have ever been to a Spring Training game, you'll know a WBC game is much more competitive and players get into shape much more quickly compared to Spring training, which means even less.

And I don't want my best players competing in some meaningless competition in the middle of the real season.  All Star Break is a chance for them to rest up injuries and relax, not go play a ton more baseball in the middle of a 162 game grind plus playoffs.

You also want to add more teams?  You'd dilute the talent in the league already and bring up worse players than the ones already there.  Bad players are around because there are so many out there.  We don't need more.  And who would support a baseball team?  Las Vegas in the AL, maybe, and..... who?  What makes baseball so special is not every team gets in.  NHL and NBA playoffs are the worst because all these teams get to play.  Only a few teams makes for better playoffs.  And if you add these extra rounds, you're playing baseball in November.  I don't want to be a fan in Minnesota, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, or Boston in the winter and watch playoff baseball in November at night.  That is terrible.


I wont' even get into your debate about the Hall of Fame.  You'd have David Wright but you'd dump a ton of great players because you didn't recognize their names?  You're missing out on the point of this.  You also wanted a bunch of players who didn't make your stats for induction because of something else about them.  That's why these other guys are in there.  They don't have to have great stats if they have something else to offer.  You shoot down your own argument.


I'll cover the NCAA later.  There's just too much there to go after.

But you like your ideas.  Good on you.  




Let me comment:

The world baseball classic doesn't mean anything.  And if you have ever been to a Spring Training game, you'll know a WBC game is much more competitive and players get into shape much more quickly compared to Spring training, which means even less.

And I don't want my best players competing in some meaningless competition in the middle of the real season.  All Star Break is a chance for them to rest up injuries and relax, not go play a ton more baseball in the middle of a 162 game grind plus playoffs.

You also want to add more teams?  You'd dilute the talent in the league already and bring up worse players than the ones already there.  Bad players are around because there are so many out there.  We don't need more.  And who would support a baseball team?  Las Vegas in the AL, maybe, and..... who?  What makes baseball so special is not every team gets in.  NHL and NBA playoffs are the worst because all these teams get to play.  Only a few teams makes for better playoffs.  And if you add these extra rounds, you're playing baseball in November.  I don't want to be a fan in Minnesota, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, or Boston in the winter and watch playoff baseball in November at night.  That is terrible.


I wont' even get into your debate about the Hall of Fame.  You'd have David Wright but you'd dump a ton of great players because you didn't recognize their names?  You're missing out on the point of this.  You also wanted a bunch of players who didn't make your stats for induction because of something else about them.  That's why these other guys are in there.  They don't have to have great stats if they have something else to offer.  You shoot down your own argument.


I'll cover the NCAA later.  There's just too much there to go after.

But you like your ideas.  Good on you.  




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