For the Good of the Game

For The Good of The Game

For the good of the game Bud, please resign and go back to being the owner of Milwaukee that you are.

For the good of the game choose a new commissioner that is not an owner. Someone like Bill Bradley or Jim Bunning

For the good of the game MLB should give up it’s antitrust exemption.

For the good of the game there should be a strict salary cap, not revenue sharing

For the good of the game each team should spend the same amount on player’s salaries. There should be 30 owners willing to spend $80M on baseball players each year.

For the good of the game, no player should make more than $10M to play for a year, but every player should get $1M to be in MLB.

For the good of the game there should be random drug testing.

For the good of the game there should never again be a DH in any baseball game, at any level.

For the good of the game wild card winners should be eliminated, in baseball you should have to win a division to move on. You could have more division winners but no wild cards

For the good of the game, teams could have a fight on the field

For the good of the game the Red Sox and Yankees can hate each other.

For the good of the game, Nomar and Jeter should not make commercials together.

For the good of the game the Red Sox should win the World Series, with the Cubs and White Sox also winning it all

For the good of the game there should be realignment in baseball with the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, in one division.

For the good of the game Montreal should move to Washington.

For the good of the game umpires should have a statistic in the boxscore that shows how many wrong calls per game they make.

For the good of the game, there should never be another strike, except one called loud, clear, and promptly by an umpire.

I wrote this in September of 2002 the only things that came true so far are the Red Sox winning the World Series, Montreal moving to Washington, and random drug testing. Which one do you think will happen next? Send a reply to

The Fan’s Commish
Rick Swanson

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