3 Ideas to make MLB even more perfect

My chief concern for the day is that nobody is watching baseball this time of year.

After watching a game snowed out and now rained out in the playoffs this year I got to thinking a bit about some things that could fix this incliment weather issue.  That of course lead to a trickle down of ideas that MLB might want to consider going forward to keep competitive with the other fall sports now dominating the airwaves.

Idea 1 - End the regular season in mid September
Why?  Well, my point about weather is the main reason.  Do we really want to see a snow out in Colorado?  Is playoff baseball better when all the warm weather players make silly errors because they can't turn their heads with all the cold weather gear on?  How about the playoffs, arguable the best time of the year (unless you are a Royals or Pirates fan) playing third fiddle to the NFL and NCAA football as it heats up during the conference season?

That leads to....
Idea 2 - Play Saturday double headers
I don't support shortening the season.  I am way too absorbed in statistics, and shortening the season would make me feel lost in a fog if I didn't have the same number of games to compare stats in my youth to stats in my adulthood.  The 2010 season for the Royals has 26 Saturdays.  If you play just half of those as double header days you shorten the season by nearly two weeks.  This allows you to get the LCS and LDS series over by the first week in October and set up the WS for the first 10 days or so of October.  Back to the World Series really being the magic in October.

Idea 3 - 30 Man roster
If you are playing all those double headers you might need a few extra players.  But lets take a page out of the NFL book.  You can have 30 on your roster but only activate 25 for each game.  Effectively, you would just deactivate all you starters not starting that day.  Want to keep three catchers?  Do it!  How about 4 utility infielders?  Yea!  Maybe we can keep some players on the roster for specialty reasons and keep the defensive liabilities off the field.  Oh and they all still have to be on your 40 man roster.

So there you go.  An idea, from an idea, from an idea.