Rodger Sherman of The Ringer recently put forth a truly awful rule change idea (for Sherman’s deep dive on the idea, go to the 20:00 mark here). If he were baseball commissioner, any team no-hit during the course of the season would be ineligible for the playoffs that year. His rationale: This would create higher stakes for offenses to avoid such embarrassment.
Sherman fully admits his idea is more fanciful than earnest, but it rekindles the fun barstool topic of what you would do if you were named commissioner for a day. In my case, I would first issue an executive fiat to change outgoing commish Rob Manfred’s name to Dorothy Mantooth.