What if you ran baseball?

"Teams can lose draft picks and pay a ton in luxury tax, but it doesn't seem to be a deterrent. So for overspending, I would allow a generous soft cap, as MLB has now. Then for every 20 million dollar increment of spending above the cap, you start the season with a loss. So sure, Dodgers, blow out the soft cap if you don't mind starting 0-4."

"On the other end, allow a pretty generous floor for each team. Then for every 10 million dollar increment below, they lose a home game. It should be a pretty easy thing to teams at the bottom to give up home games since nobody's going to home games of the Marlins, Pirates, or Rays anyway. So hey, the Dodgers might start the season with multiple losses, but they have the opportunity for free home wins versus the dregs."

"I would allow rules for player safety, so hello double first base. I would probably start experimenting in the minors with a hat that can protect pitchers from comebackers. If teams were stepping outside of the rules to create an unfair advantage, I would step in. I'm thinking about changes like adding PitchCom for example. But as for changing the game for stylistic purposes, that's a hard no."

Implement asymmetric financial penalties to alter competitive behavior: permit a generous soft cap but start teams with season losses for each $20 million spent above it. Establish a generous spending floor but remove home games for each $10 million below the floor. Limit new rule adoption to player safety and rule integrity only, permitting safety experiments like double first base or protective headgear in the minors while forbidding stylistic changes. End broadcast carve-outs by offering a single-price access or issuing credits and ensuring customers can view games without needing separate platform logins. Standardize one baseball specification for consistency.

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