I'm as anti-dh as they come. I love the cadence of having that near-automatic out in the lineup.
I'm as anti-dh as they come. I love the cadence of having that near-automatic out in the lineup.
"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
Chip R (07-19-2016)
I'm a fan of the different rules between leagues. Adds intrigue to me. We still have a playing field with a hill on it in MLB. Unique situations driven by non-uniformity appeals to me.
Revering4Blue (07-19-2016)
Four out of the last six World Series champs have been NL teams.Originally Posted by BCubb2003
Some "advantage."
Whatever you do, do your best to not allow the struggles of life to interfere with the pleasures of living.
I can believe that the NL is at a disadvantage during the regular season when enough games are played in AL parks.
I don't really CARE if that's the case. It doesn't really bother me. I don't think that balancing the leagues is a goal.
I'm more bothered by the wild cards being decided when teams are not playing balanced schedules.
"Even a bad day at the ballpark beats the snot out of most other good days. I'll take my scorecard and pencil and beer and hot dog and rage at the dips and cheer at the highs, but I'm not ever going to stop loving this game and this team and nobody will ever take that away from me." Roy Tucker October 2010
Chip R (07-19-2016)
That may be but if that's the case the NL would be more attractive for pitchers since they are ostensibly only facing 8 hitters. So it probably evens out.
Revering4Blue (07-19-2016)
Agreed.
To that end, I wouldn't mind if interleague play disappeared, or was drastically reduced; neither are likely to happen. In that case, to mitigate the AL home field advantage, I've read about the following idea that's been kicked around for interleague play:
NL rules, at least for two games out of a three game series, in AL parks, and vice versa. I doubt that it would make a difference in, say, Coors Field, though.
Realistically, the chances of the DH eliminated in MLB are slimmer than slim, so I view maintaining the status quo as a better option than shoving the DH down the NL's figurative throat.
Whatever you do, do your best to not allow the struggles of life to interfere with the pleasures of living.
Designated Hitter In National League Gaining Momentum:
The use of designated hitters in the National League is inching closer to becoming reality, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.
Following the quarterly owners’ meeting Thursday, Manfred indicated that progress has been made on an issue that has been hotly debated for decades.
"I think that is a continuing source of conversation among the ownership group, and I think that the dialogue actually probably moved a little bit,” Manfred said.
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Boo
cincinnati chili (06-17-2018),Hypnotoad (06-16-2018),Sea Ray (06-18-2018)
It needs to happen. It gives way too much of an advantage to the AL teams.
I'd rather see interleague play go away. The cool thing about baseball as compared to other pro sports was that there were two distinct major leagues. Made the World Series even more special.
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Well, I think it would help with the Joey Votto situation. Suddenly it would be much less of an issue with his inevitable decline if he could DH most of the time for the remainder of his contract.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Donder (06-17-2018),mth123 (06-16-2018),Revering4Blue (06-16-2018)
Unify the rules, the way they were for 70+ years.
Go Gators!
This is where I'm at. I prefer baseball without it, but if interleague play isn't going away, things need to be unified.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
ochoa30 (06-16-2018)
If it (the DH) is, indeed, inevitable, I'm hoping that it happens soon for the Votto situation alone.
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Donder (06-17-2018),mth123 (06-17-2018),RiverRat13 (06-16-2018)
What would you say.....ya do here?
podgejeff_ (06-17-2018)
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