There will be at the very least three electors per MLB team representing the Team Owner, GM, and Manager. The rest of the number of electors are based on the average attendence per game which will be 1 per every 5,000. The electors are chosen by fan clubs and whoever on election day which is during the All-Star break the candidate with the most votes by the fans within each franchise election wins all the electoral votes for that franchise. The candidate who gets the majority of the electoral votes becomes the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
The advantages:
1) There is widespread support for a commisioner and thus the commisioner cannot pander to the fans with the largest fan base.
2) Elitists do not choose the Commisioner which is the owners.
PS, there would also be Commissioner Election Debates hosted by NBC Sports with Bob Costas or ESPN with Chris Berman.
Personally i think it is the Florida Marlins....they have the lowest payroll in the league and they still find ways to succeed without the *Superstar* players.....you look at some of the talent they have had the past few years Willingham, Hermida, Jacobs....they take young talent and develop them into great baseball players....but they dont have the payroll so they usually get shipped to the yankees and other organizations with money.....like Cabrera and Willis....but yet it seems like every year they are fairly competative....seems like every 8 years they are in the world series and suprise everyone....just wondering what some of your opinions are
of the Dodgers $60MM committed payroll for 2009 $38MM+ of it is going to Juan Pierre($10MM), Andruw Jones($15MM), Scott Proctor($1.115MM+) and Jason Schmidt($12MM). if ned Coletti had not signed these players would signing CC Sabathia, Manny Ramirez and possibly even Joe Credes price tag even been an issue to the team?
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/10/offseason-ou-13.html
