Pshaw.

If anything, the AL should get rid of the DH.

The MLBPA likes it? So what?

If they had their way, we'd have 45-man rosters and offense/defense teams like football.

But that's not baseball.

Baseball is strategy, tradition, double switches, manufacturing runs and small ball.

It's not a charity league for fat, old players who can still swing a bat, but can't field.

If you like more than the occasional home run, you can have your sterioid era back.

Players get hurt; that's part of the game.

But you don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

What is this silly talk of the NL adopting the DH?

The Netherlands is adopting the Dick Head?

Quote
Bimwad
But that's not baseball.

Baseball is whatever the closed billionaire monopolists club says it is...

I love that people love the strategy of it. I just don't get it myself, and watching pitchers hit makes me want to puke. Maybe get rid of the DH and just have 8 batters?

Maybe the NFL should make it so that kickers and punters have to return the kicks when on the other side of the ball. Now that would be exciting!

It will be called the Adam Wainwright Rule.

[www.mcall.com]

I've come to the conclusion that the DH is here to stay, and that true NL baseball is likely a lost pastime.

And that's ok.

It took me decades to get used to DH, but now that's it's ingrained in the game, I don't mind it at all and I kinda like that the AL & NL are two distinct entities. It adds a bit of spice to the world series when AL teams have to hit their pitchers and the NL teams get to play with the DH.

It's a distinct advantage for NL teams to have complete players that can pitch. I couldn't hate the DH more or think lesser of the AL for in essence needing a pinch hitter for one dimensional mound-dwellers. It, sadly, is here to stay (thanks union) and we will see that travesty in the NL before there is ever any discussion to remove it from the AL or just bat 8 players. It's a shame.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

When the high priced pitchers start getting hurt batting and openly complaining, the owners will change the rules. This is why hitting an NFL QB is not as easy as it used to be. Tom Brady's busted knee by Pollard led to no hitting QB in the legs.

---

Ways to improve web conference image and sound quality. [forums.macresource.com]

Quote
hal

Baseball is whatever the closed billionaire monopolists club says it is...

Unfortunately, that is the one certain truism.

Quote
sekker
It will be called the Adam Wainwright Rule.

I've come to the conclusion that the DH is here to stay, and that true NL baseball is likely a lost pastime.

Yes, it seems that the status quo might be the best outcome traditionalists can hope for.

But if they're going to overprotect pitchers, why stop there?

Will they make an infield grounder to the pitcher or the 1st baseman an automatic out? Otherwise, one could end up like Tim Hudson, who had his ankle broken covering first.

I think it's safe to say pitchers are at greater risk of injury making a play in the field than running out of the batter's box, so they need to be protected from those situations as well, right?

All for the sake of these specific position players, many of whom only play once every five days anyway?

The whole notion is absurd.

Funny how resistant to change some people are.
I've known people who have championed a cause riding the coat-tails of change.

---

The Phorum Wall keeps us safe from illegal characters and words
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of one's own ignorance. -Benjamin Franklin
BOYCOTT YOPLAIT [www.noyoplait.com]
[soundcloud.com]

Quote
Crash Davis
Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

---

--------------

Embarassing myself on the Internet since 1978.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/06/2015 08:18AM by raz.

I grew up with it, so it's never struck me as weird. More, actually, that i got to watch some of my favorite batters a few years past their prime get to the plate now and again.

---

rj
AKA
Vreemac, Moth of the Future