We at the Afro-Squad are constantly working to improve the world.  This time, we decided to focus on America’s past time.  That’s right, we are going to improve the great sport of baseball. 

Over the past few decades, baseball has changed its rules to accommodate its viewers.  It has made adjustments and tweaks to appeal to the Mtv generation, but the Major Leagues have never had any major changes. 

Here are a list of changes that we feel will help the big leagues stay as fresh a new pouch of Big League Chew. 

1)      More blood.  Allow runners to sharpen their cleats.  Ty Cobb used to do it back in baseball’s hay day.  Why can’t runners do it now.  Imagine how much more interesting it would be if a runner slides into third base a set of razor sharp blades attached to his feet.  Who wouldn’t want to see that?

2)      Hot catchers.  The days of crusty old comic legends like Johnny Bench and Bob Uecker are long gone.  Now it is time to have hotties squatting behind home plate.  A simple rule change requiring a busty blonde behind the plate would make those long games so much more entertaining.  Of course, the uniform would have to require cute skirts and panties, but baseball has to change if it wants more viewers!

3)      Loaded bats.  What is so wrong with a corked bat?  It only makes you more able to smash the dickens out of some ball.  Why not encourage hitters to cork their bats.  Hell, MLB should hire teams at NASA to produce the most powerful bat in the universe.  Wouldn’t you want to see a buy like Barry Bonds crush a ball 1,000 feet?  I know I would.

4)      Bears on unicycles.  Replace general managers with bears on unicycles.  I am not sure what this would do, but the world needs more bears on unicycles. 

5)      Explosions.  How about adding some low powered land mines in the base path.  I am not talking about anything that could kill, but maybe an explosion just powerful enough to knock the hell out of somebody.  It would make running the bases a little more like Russian Roulette.

I have plenty of other suggestions, but we’ll wait to let baseball try some of these before I announce them.

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ST LOUIS—Former St. Louis Cardinals home run king, and long time liar Mark McGwire came clean Monday, stating “No shit.  Of course I did steroids.  What?  Did you think my head grew four hat sizes on its own?  Who wants to fight?”  He then added, “McGuire rules, bitch!” 

“I totally regret using steroids,” McGuire said during an hour-long interview with the MLB Network’s Bob Costas. “PSYCHE!  That juice shit is awesome.  One time, I choked out a live anaconda, arm wrestled a bear, and still when three for four against Clemens.  Do you know how cool it is to be me?  That’s right, I made $300 million in the past 10 years.  What has your straight edge living earned you, Costas?”

McGuire continued the interview with several references to Bob Costas’ mother then went on to hump a Coke machine.  He concluded with, “and kids, don’t do drugs.”

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