New Year's resolutions that can create meaningful change for fans, franchises, and sports

Thoughts and prayers to anyone hitting the gym this month, as New Year's resolutioners, hopped up on pre-workout, optimism and post-holiday diet guilt, overrun your local health club. If we're discussing substances that help whip civilians into shape, January motivation is a top-tier performance-enhancing drug.

But if you, like me, have been around a while, you also know motivation has a short half-life. That's why three quarters of the people you see pumping iron on Jan.1 are back on the couch by Valentine's Day. If you want to make meaningful progress, you need to make that new behaviour a habit.

It works in fitness, where habit sustains your workout routine once that initial surge of motivation wanes.  It also works in sports opinion writing, where most of us are in the habit of using late December and early January to write wish lists for all kinds of sports world stakeholders.

The idea of forming new habits can also help the people and organizations we write about. So when I run down this list of New Year's sports resolutions, I'm not just hoping the folks I'm discussing are motivated to make these moves. I'd love to see them adjust their habits, so that meaningful change is also long-lasting.

Is it a lot to ask?

Of course it is, as you'll see.

But is it too much?

Let's reconvene in 12 months, and we'll see. For now, here are three resolutions we think will improve the sports landscape.

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1. For the Blue Jays to give Vlad Jr. what he wants, when he wants it.

Assuming Guerrero sees a long-term future with the club that first signed him as a 17-year-old, "what he wants" is a contract extension, sometime between now and spring training. If there's no deal