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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Five ways I’d change my sport
Puck Daddy asked bloggers and writers to list five things they’d change about the NHL.
Anyway, no reason we can’t do this for MLB. So, if you have a blog, create a “Five Things I’d Change About MLB”, and be as serious or funny or as creative as you can. And make every other blogger do the same. Credit Puck Daddy, and not me.
A few of the good ones in NHL:
1. Free exhibition games. Right now, the NHL does like the NFL, and forces it on its season ticket customers as a regular priced ticket. Why? This should be like Spring Training, and you get to go wherever you want to catch a game. I’d probably put in a flat 5$ per ticket price (including service charges), just so that you maintain some control.
2. Someone always mentions that in a shootout, there’s no need to wear a helmet. Agreed.
3. Mike the players, ban the announcers. Actually, hockey announcers do a pretty good job, in this age of helmeted players. Maybe just ban the color guy.
4. Don’t know if someone said it, but 4-on-4 all the time. I’d make PP 5-on-4 (rather than 4-on-3).
5. No-touch icing, or a race for icing based on the defender needing to pass the hashmarks.