Baseball
What happened to the 2-1 games? Better yet, what happened to the shutout? It is more common to see a 10-8 score than a 3-2 final. The answer is: steroids, HGH, smaller parks (bandboxes), tighter wound baseballs, lighter bats with harder wood, watered down pitching, along with other reasons. Fans fell in love with the 500 foot home run, so baseball cashed in with bigger sluggers and smaller parks. Hell, I can hit one out of that joke of a park in Houston ... Minute Made, Enron, Astro field. I remember when Dick Allen, a monster of a man who swung a 42 ounce bat, led the league with 32 homers. Hank Aaron, the greatest homerun hitter ever (HAHAHAHA Barry Bonds), never hit more than 44 in a season. Then we had Luis Gonzalez, a stringbean, hit 57 one year. Like he wasn’t juiced. Brady Anderson, a career lead off man, hit 52. I want to see strategy. I want to see the hit and run. I want to see four man pitching rotations. I want to see players stay with one team their entire careers. I want to see ERAs in the 3s instead of the 5s. Oh the hell with it, I will just watch old games on ESPN classics. If you want to watch this trash that Bud Selig is forcing down our throats ... go ahead. I have a simple solution for better baseball though. The two worst teams in each league each season are eliminated completely from baseball. No more Washington Nationals or Kansas City Royals. Do this for 5 seasons and see what we are left with.

Football
Same problem. Too much offense. The games are commonly 44-28, etc. I see a time in the near future that a team passes on every single down. Why not, it works. Pass and pass more until they learn to defend against it. The rules certainly favor the offense. Perfect example, the pass interference call. If you throw a 50 yard pass and defensive pass interference is called, it is a 50 yard penalty. If offensive pass interference is called, it is a 10 yard penalty. Really fair, huh? What happened to the fullback? Remember when every team had a half back and a full back and actually used them? I remember when every team had a 1,000 yard runner with a mere 14 game schedule. I liked it when teams ran and passed in near equal amounts. But then I guess we never would have seen "the greatest show on turf." Well, I could have lived without it. Give me the Steel Curtain and The Doomsday Defense, and The Purple People Eaters. Better yet, give me Mike Ditka as a coach…

Basketball
Here we have the exact opposite problem, no offense. The finals scores used to be in the 140-130 range. This season we saw finals that read 79-62. That used to be a halftime score. Don’t give me any crap about it being great defense, it is terrible offense and slow down tempos. I miss the Lakers and Showtime or the Philadelphia 76ers with Doctor J sprinting down the court. Once again, there are too many teams and the talent is spread too thin. Do away with at least 33% of the teams and let all their players go into a draft and each remaining team becomes much stronger and more entertaining. Oh yeah, and how about enforcing the "traveling" rule. I was watching a playoff game and a player took off from the left side of the basket to find that he had no clear shot. He landed on the right side of the basket (traveling) and then proceded to lift his right foot, replant, left his left foot, replant (traveling again) ... take two and a half steps towards the basket and throw down and tremendous dunk (traveling a third time). What the hell were the refs looking at? The Allen Iverson "crossover" move is "palming" everytime he uses it. Once again ... I will be watching ESPN classics ...