The consensus is that baseball needs some major changes, and quick. Gene Wojciechowski checked in with 11 suggestions on fixing our favorite pastime, from contraction to caps.

ESPN.com wanted to know what our users thought about fixing baseball. So, we asked if you agreed or disagreed with Wojciechowski's game plans, or if you had some of your own to share. Here is a sampling of your responses:

Blame it on Bud
You want to fix baseball? Replace Bud Selig. Don't replace him because he is a self-absorbed phony, replace him because it is a blatant conflict-of-interest to have an owner as a commissioner. His focus, naturally, is on the well being of the owners, not the game. Replace him with an individual who is not already biased towards either side of the player/owner conflict. Having Bud Selig as the Commissioner of baseball is like having Don King as the president of organized boxing.

David Fleming
Brattleboro, Vt.

The following is a rough draft of the first step to fixing America's game: I, Bud Selig, formally resign my position as commissioner of major league baseball effective immediately. My final act as commissioner, performed earlier today, was to remove from the building, anyone who thought or acted like me. I do this for the good of baseball, and any former, current or future fans of the game. Despite my complete lack of any ability necessary to perform my job at even an acceptable level, I have managed to stay in this office for quite some time. I am equally amazed and ashamed that I have occupied this office for as long as I have. Thankfully, I recently realized that baseball can still be saved. More needs to be done, but the first step is to get me out of here. Thank you for your time.

Tomas Balmer
Kansas City, Mo.

Get rid of Bud Selig. He's trying to contract the Twins who have won two World Series in the last 15 years, and are a young up-and-coming team. And, they compete in the Wisconsin media market against Bud's Brewers, who stink and should be contracted.

David Berger
South Plainfield, N.J.

Get rid of Selig. He talks of contraction like it was an absolute necessity without even considering his own team, Milwaukee, which hasn't been "a winner" in recent memory.

Andrew Sloca
Middletown, R.I.

Put a cap on it
Level out the playing field. Establish a salary cap, putting all the teams on the same level. Make it a sport between all teams again. Force the teams with money to start developing their talent down in their farm systems instead of just waiting until the talent is developed by other teams and then buying it. I'm an Indians fan and I should dislike the Twins, but the Twins built their team (as did the Indians in the 90's), so I respect them. It's easy to watch the Yankee's and like them, they are awesome players, but the only thing that brought them together is a fat wallet. As great as they are, how many of the current Yankee's were developed within the Yankee's farm system? A salary cap would help to make MLB a true sport again, allowing all teams to start on an equal playing field.

Darren Weber
Houston, Texas

A solution: Soft salary cap (like NBA) and a salary floor. Termination of all player contracts, followed by lottery redraft of all MLB players, with new contracts to be negotiated. Expansion of league to include two more teams. Divisional realignment to do away with the wildcard. Elimination of the DH and interleague play altogether. The San Francisco Giants automatically win the World Series every year.

Zachary Ross
Brooklyn, N.Y.

MLB is the only sport where a handful of teams outspend everyone else. The NFL has it right: the Patriots won the Super Bowl this year and the Lions have a shot at winning it all in the upcoming season. The baseball postseason is determined in the team ledgers in the offseason. Get with the program guys. Society has less and less interest in a slow game. If the standings are determined primarily by money, why should anyone watch? MLB is shooting itself in the head by not leveling the playing field between teams.

Alex Johnson
Potamac, Md.

What other reason is there that the Yankees are in the World Series each year, and other teams have not been in contention since the late eighties? The reason attendance suffers is that many teams have "losing traditions". Granted, some teams have better farm systems than others; however, any team (typically, those located in a large market) who is able to spend an exorbitant amount of money, in effect cornering the free agent market, hampers the caliber of play among all of Major League Baseball. Until each team is made up of players of equal ability and talent, baseball as a whole will suffer.

A. Lawendowski
Southbridge, Mass.

Contraction and other woes
Contraction is not an answer. It will create more problems than it solves, and while it eliminates two troublesome franchises, it does nothing to help the other franchises. How is having an extra Devil Ray or Expo going to help the Royals, Tigers, or Padres compete?

Casey Sanders
So. Weber, Utah

First, we need to get rid of four teams, the Devil rays, Expos, Marlins and the Royals. we have to many teams .there are players in the majors that should be back on there little league teams. next we need to drop all the players into a free agent draft pool. Limit a salary cap of $40 million for each team, then draft the players, if they do not want to sign for a cheaper contract then let them flip burgers at McDonalds.

J. Ball
San Diego, Calif.

Wojciechowski is way off the mark. Contraction is a stupid idea. I have yet to read one good reason in favor of contraction. The only reason I can see is that people argue that pitching is diluted in today's game, but I've never seen any decent argument about why that is true. In 1940, the US population was 132 million. Today, it is 287 million. So population has more than doubled, plus the MLB now recruits from Japan, Korea, Latin America, etc., there is a much larger pool to draw from. Yes, there are more baseball teams in today than in 1940, but in terms of population alone, there is no reason to believe there is a smaller pool of players to draw from, and therefore, no reason to believe that there is a dilution of pitching in the major leagues.

Bogdan Sanchez
Arlington, Va.

If anything, baseball has been fixed. The Red Sox are in first place, and they aren't showing any signs of slowing. As long as the Red Sox are in first I see nothing wrong with baseball, and I am praying the curse of the Bambino doesn't strike again by igniting a strike.

Tim Haines
Concord, Mass.

Until baseball has revenue sharing and some kind of a salary cap, teams will continue to lose money and the same teams will be in the playoffs every year. Nobody wants to see that, and if they do go on strike I will never watch baseball again.

Mike Dorval
Oakland, Maine

I think the solution is to start watching golf, NASCAR, horse racing, and water polo. I don't like any of those sports but I can't remember the last time they threatened to strike.

Jay
Philadelphia, Pa.

You know your game is tainted when two former MVPs are letting the world know that they've used steroids and that everybody's doing it. To think, we thought the balls were juiced? If the owners were smart they'd make the proposal of: salary cap or drug testing? The league has to test for steroids because it's starting already, the fans are talking. At this past weekends Dodger-Angel games, I heard comments after home runs of "Must be the roids"..."No way he could do that, we know he's on the juice." Baseball will have to test for steroids.

Travis Burns
Laguna Niguel, Calif.