The Bastardization of Baseball
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Love the DH. Speeds up the game and adds more exciting offense.
The DH allows a mediocre manager to become a good manager.
I mean....I won’t change your mind.The DH is absolute fuck all horseshit.
But I would be fine with both leagues doing DH. More offense. Plus, those rare times a pitcher does something at the plate does not come close to outweighing the misery of watching all those times they don’t.
Funny thing is...I was raised to take a very traditional view of the game. But, I’ve evolved on the DH debate
Conversely, one could say pitchers batting makes a good manager mediocre.
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I’m not a big fan of it, but it’s here and it probably isn’t going away, and I love baseball too much to stop watching because of something we’ll be used to in short order
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Terrible take! I hate less strategy.
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Are there numbers behind this? How does a player with a better chance of getting on base speed the game up more than a guaranteed out?
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I don't think anybody's argument has ever been that the rare time a pitcher does something is why there shouldn't be a DH. Where did you come up with that one?
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The DH does nothing to speed up games. The Yankees and Red Sox are proven to play the longest games in the league
Wouldn't DHs add more offense thus making the game longer?
connie mack is a HOFer for a reason
Mack was convinced that since pitchers were traditionally weak hitters, a substitute batter in the lineup would make the game more exciting. I'm sure the fact that Connie did not have a pitcher who hit more than .252 (with at least 20 at-bats) between the 1905 and 1906 season had little to do with his revolutionary idea.
In my own stupid brain.
Yeah....I know. It’s the strategy game that can come with having a pitcher bat that’s probably consensus reason for no DH. I was just trying to be different.
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DH or no DH.
All I say is pick one.
Having full-time interleague play with half the teams using one set of rules and half the teams using another is fucking stooooooooooopid!
All I say is pick one.
Having full-time interleague play with half the teams using one set of rules and half the teams using another is fucking stooooooooooopid!
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The DH is absolute fuck all horseshit.
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I never made sense to me...a pitcher doesn't get paid to hit, they get paid to pitch. The DH adds something unique to the game...that's why the NL is lame. I don't think they should change it now since it is and has been part of the game for so long...but it doesn't make sense for a pitcher to hit. Can make it interesting though.