DH forever at the ALL-Star Game!!!

[El Supremo]

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2010/04/tigers_manager_jim_leyland_cal.html

When will the NL get a clue and acquiesce?

(I wanted to post this from work earlier today, but my Firefox got hosed when my Linux system crashed when I tried to use 7 of my 8 CPUs for a job.)

[madinmaryland]

1. Good citizens check for duplicates! nt

[El Supremo]

2. I ignored that thread because most of what it contained was you calling people Douches.

Douche coward.

[madinmaryland]

7. And the DH still sucks!

[brendan120678]

3. Acquiesce to a dumbed-down version of the game?

Cutting out half of the strategy involved in being a manager?
Stressing brute power over small-ball?

No way!

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. How laughable. The DH rule keeps every person who takes the field from being a REAL baseball player

If you wear a glove, you must also go to the plate with a bat in your hand. If you bat, you must also take the field with a glove on.

Is that so hard to understand?

How in the world could you call anything else REAL BASEBALL?

[Forkboy]

5. Even as a A.L. guy, I hate the DH rule.

[LisaM]

6. Me too.

I love the strategy of watching pitchers bat. I totally agree, it's dumbed down with a DH.

[El Supremo]

10. "Strategy of watching pitchers bat?"

They make an easy out or they get pulled. What's to love about that?

[LisaM]

11. LOL, not strategy of watching

I like seeing managers having to make the strategic decision of when to leave in a good pitcher.

My watching involves very little strategy. The managers don't seem to hear my unsolicited advice.

[Onceuponalife]

12. There's lots of good hitting pitchers, where have you been?

Well, maybe not on the Frockies team...

[Neoconstipated]

8. It's time to end this "experiment"...

... and decide whether to go "all-in" on the DH or get rid of it.

I favor getting rid of it for strategy reasons and because it makes teams think twice about a bean ball war because the pitcher has to come to the plate.

[MrCoffee]

9. Now I have to boycott the All-Star Game

Actually, I can't remember the last time I watched an All-Star Game. Wait, yes I can...

[Iggo]

13. Yep, that's the last one I watched, too.

Each team had at least 8 players left who coulda pitched in that exhibition game.

And the solution was "This Time It Counts"?

Bah!