As someone who is forced to watch baseball by their fanatical wife: the MLB should adopt most of the rules that the Savannah Bananas use, including a fan catching a foul ball counts as an out, trick plays, inning timer, etc.

For any pro sport known for rowdy, destructive fans - the clubs get to pay for the police and insurance expenses.

Oh, this would bankrupt the clubs, I hear you say? Oh no. Anyway…!

American Football: no time outs.

Play it just like soccer. Ref’s calls are final, and the clock doesn’t stop unless their is an injury.

It would make the game much more fun to watch, cut the runtime by two thirds, and force teams to hire athletes who can maintain vigorous activity for half an hour without dying.

Baseball. No sponsorships on uniforms.

I guess we could extend that to most sports. I know soccer is much more lax in that regard.

All professional teams that are televised must be broadcast free of charge to their local area. No local blackout restrictions. (Fuck you, Marquee Sports. Put the Cubs back on WGN.)

Beer must be under $10, in stadiums. It’s $16 for even shitty domestic beer at Wrigley. It’s damn robbery.

College football: when you win the coin toss, you have 2 choices: kick or receive. No more deferrals.

Football

All the players are blindfolded

(I don’t enjoy football, but I’d certainly watch it if it involved people running at each other full speed blindfolded)

Edit: American Football, but I’m honestly open to testing this on other sports too

I would add that at any given time during a football game a fan can throw a new football on the field and two balls may be in-play at that time.

why?

Cricket:

1. Remove the backfoot no ball. It does not benefit the sport but puts a lot of stress on bowlers bodies, knees in particular. The most commonly injured body part for bowlers. They land with 6x the impact of their bodyweight on one knee 6 times an over, like 20 overs a day. No good.

2. So much I would change in Odis that i dont even have the energy to wrote it all.

3. A shit ton of administrative changes.

4. Mankads to no longer be stigmatised (they are legal already)

5. Allow some level of ball tampering, by which I mean not using anything but allowing some controlled substances.

6. Add substitutions

Badminton:

1. screaming and shouting and other obviously bad manners meant to psychologically disturb the opponent. Looking at you, Carolina Marín. God I hate her.
2. Taking unnecessarily long to serve the shuttle, swaying left and right for a long time before serving. Looking at you, Viktor Axelsen! For shame! 🫵

Something I’d like to see on every hard cap league is a cap relief calculation for team drafted players, going up the later that player was drafted. Maybe 5% per found, maybe 7.5%?

So many times teams are basically forced to move on from role players that are fan favorites because it’s literally impossible to pay a team of veterans under the cap unless you have no star players and I think it would be genuinely interesting to provide a benefit on the cap side to keeping drafted players in house past their first or second deals. Part of why it’s so hard to be a fan is knowing that anyone but the absolute TOP stars are just consistently going to be moving on in a few seasons.

Football:

1. A lot of financial and psr rules.
2. Add rolling subs like basketball.
3. Wenger style offside rule. If any part of the attacking players body is behind the last defender, its onside.
4. Be stricter against defensive players brutally slashing wingers.
5. Stop pthe stupid carding over showboating.

Baseball: There is now a gun under second base.

playoff hockey: have referees on the ice that call penalties for rule infractions. playoffs are violent garbage.

Thunderdome rules for MMA. Keep going until there is a sub or knock out. No rounds and no time limit.

Fencing: Allow shields.