Speaking of baseball....

 Here's what MLB needs to do. Preferably yesterday.


1) Get rid of the DH. Sorry, David Ortiz. If you can't even play first base, it's time to retire. Believe me, I played first base. It's not hard at all.

Don't look shocked. Grab a glove.

2) Reverse the All-Star game rule. That game shouldn't mean a thing, and I think 90% of Nostradamus I mean Bud Selig's motivation was to erase the 2002 All-Star debacle. Great idea, Bud. Next time I get a paper cut I'll cut my leg off.

This sums up Bud's tenure pretty well.
 

3) Contract the regular season. 162 games is way too long. I'd be okay with between 135 and 145 games. June baseball is terrible. The honeymoon from Opening Day is over and the pennant races are 3 months away.

4) Fix inter-league play. Last year, the Cardinals played the Mariners, Angels, A's, Royals, and Blue Jays. What? Why not switch the Blue Jays for the Rangers to play the entire AL West? I like how the NFL schedules its games. 1st place teams should match up with the other division's 1st place team, etc. Then throw in a rivalry series if you want. Under that rule, the Cardinals would play the Yankees, White Sox, A's, and Royals in 2011.

5) Handle the steroid situation completely different. MLB didn't begin steroid testing until 2001 I believe. What exactly did they expect? This quote explains the steroid era perfectly. "Commissioner Fay Vincent sends a memo to each team announcing that steroids have been added to the league’s banned list. No testing plan is announced." Maybe they went by scouts honor or something.
Here's how they fix it:
Label about 1988-2010 the steroid era in the Hall of Fame and elect the guys who put up the numbers. Roger Clemens and Andy Petite showed us that pitchers were doing the stuff too. Who can blame them if baseball decided not to test them for over 10 years? So A-Rod and Clemens are both juiced and face each other. Who wins? I call it a wash. Instead of Clemens throwing a 94 MPH fastball and A-Rod hitting a 405 foot homer, Clemens is throwing 97 and A-Rod hits a 425 foot homer. No one had an advantage, the skills were just increased. And if these guys were so evil, why are they on Hall of Fame ballots? And when the hallowed records from past eras are brought into the discussion, I laugh.
I don't disagree that juiced players had advantages in breaking records, but you know who else had advantages in breaking records?

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio.  They never faced black or latin players. Let's see all the pitchers they didn't have to face:
-Bob Gibson
-Satchel Paige
-Juan Marichal
-Pedro Martinez

The pitchers were no different. Christy Mathewson, Lefty Grove, Walter Johnson, and Cy Young never had to face guys like:
-Josh Gibson
-Roberto Clemente
-Albert Pujols
-Manny Ramirez
-Willie Mays
-Frank Robinson
and on and on and on...

Players in the pre-WWII era didn't seem to have a problem with baseball denying black and latin players a chance to play with them. Why crucify guys who took advantage of this guy for a decade?

6) Let this guy in the Hall of Fame:

 I know Pete Rose was an idiot, and probably still is, but any baseball Hall of Fame void of arguably its all-time best hitter is incomplete. I don't have any stories of any Hall of Fame members with questionable morals, but they're out there. It isn't the Hall of Very Good and it isn't the White House. Let the guy in.