Before MLB Signs That New CBA.....

As I knew would happen, the naysayers are weighing in on the new playoff structure (additional wild card team and a One Game Wild Card Playoff game - hereafter to be known as the OGWCP game), so before Bud and whoever the guy who replaced Don Fehr is sign off on that new Bargaining Agreement, they should consider the following Modest Proposal to make everything right with the purists.

1. Get rid of 14 franchises. Contract them, dissolve them, just make them go away.


2. Make sure one of those 14 teams is the New York Mets. They've only been around for 50 years, so nobody really cares about them anyway.


3. Move the Dodgers and Giants back to Brooklyn and New York.


4. There will now be 16 teams remaining divided into two 8 team leagues.


5. No teams west of the Mississippi. Their scores never make the morning papers in the east, so they're pretty much irrelevant as it is.


6. Play a 154 game schedule that would include double headers for every team for every Sunday.


7. No night games.


8. One pennant winner per league, even if the pennant winner opens up a 20 game lead in mid-August, thus effectively killing any interest in that league's games for the remainder of the regular season.


9. Limit the amount of televised games to one per week. Teams contract with local TV stations to televise about 20-25 games per year. All telecasts to be in black & white.

What do you think?