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WiggumFan267 07/24/20 2:22:55 PM #36:	Xuxon posted... Agree 100% about everything you said except pitchers no longer batting, which as an AL fan is kind of a fun curiosity that I'm sad to see go but there's no way I could possibly care about that as much as you. And to me, the expanded playoffs are definitely much worse than everything else for the exact reasons you stated. Leonhart4 posted... Pitchers batting is dumb now that they no longer actually practice hitting. Yeah yeah strategy and all that but I'm fine with being rid of it Except we have a league that already uses those rules, so if you don't like the DH, you're welcome to watch the games where it doesn't have it. And if you do, same. Until now. I had no problem with it being split, because that makes baseball unique, and gives you the option to prefer the ruleset you want. Why would you want it in a league you, I'm assuming, probably don't really watch as much? Why not keep both sets of people happy, unless youre in the minority of NL Fans that like the DH (or AL fans that don't, I guess). Also it's not about strategy for the sake of strategy for me. It's about logical sense. You have 9 guys in the lineup. They all must bat and they all must field. Having an exception simply because someone isn't good at it is a stupid reason to have a rule excepting it. The worse side of the coin to me isn't the pitcher batting or not, its the fact you're allowed to have a guy in the lineup who doesn't have to field. Why? That to me, is stupid. I don't want to get too much into DH arguments though, we've been through this 1000 times. The main thing is there's nothing wrong with the way it was, and you can have your preference. Now that choice is gone. Interleague games were an unfortunate necessity with an odd # of teams per league, but they were probably going to expand at some point anyway, and then we wouldn't have had to worry about that anymore. In the same way you don't want to watch a pitcher hit, I don't want to have to watch a guy who is allowed to hit but he doesn't have to field because he's too bad defensively, too old, maybe sort of injured, whatever. If you were to start baseball over from scratch and decided you didn't want pitchers hitting, you wouldn't have something like a dummy position in the lineup that doesn't have to field, you would just have 8 man lineups. The pattern in all these rule changes is they're trying to make baseball more like basketball, and that's slowly destroying all the stuff that's unique and interesting about it. --- ~Wigs~ 3-Time Consecutive Fantasy B8 Baseball Champion 2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPION NEW YORK METS <cite>WiggumFan267 posted [p:942533027] in MLB starts... [t:78865935]...</cite> <quote>Xuxon posted... </cite> <quote>Agree 100% about everything you said except pitchers no longer batting, which as an AL fan is kind of a fun curiosity that I'm sad to see go but there's no way I could possibly care about that as much as you. And to me, the expanded playoffs are definitely much worse than everything else for the exact reasons you stated.</quote> Leonhart4 posted... </cite> <quote>Pitchers batting is dumb now that they no longer actually practice hitting. Yeah yeah strategy and all that but I'm fine with being rid of it</quote> Except we have a league that already uses those rules, so if you don't like the DH, you're welcome to watch the games where it doesn't have it. And if you do, same. Until now. I had no problem with it being split, because that makes baseball unique, and gives you the option to prefer the ruleset you want. Why would you want it in a league you, I'm assuming, probably don't really watch as much? Why not keep both sets of people happy, unless youre in the minority of NL Fans that like the DH (or AL fans that don't, I guess). Also it's not about strategy for the sake of strategy for me. It's about logical sense. You have 9 guys in the lineup. They all must bat and they all must field. Having an exception simply because someone isn't good at it is a stupid reason to have a rule excepting it. The worse side of the coin to me isn't the pitcher batting or not, its the fact you're allowed to have a guy in the lineup who doesn't have to field. Why? That to me, is stupid. I don't want to get too much into DH arguments though, we've been through this 1000 times. The main thing is there's nothing wrong with the way it was, and you can have your preference. Now that choice is gone. Interleague games were an unfortunate necessity with an odd # of teams per league, but they were probably going to expand at some point anyway, and then we wouldn't have had to worry about that anymore. In the same way you don't want to watch a pitcher hit, I don't want to have to watch a guy who is allowed to hit but he doesn't have to field because he's too bad defensively, too old, maybe sort of injured, whatever. If you were to start baseball over from scratch and decided you didn't want pitchers hitting, you wouldn't have something like a dummy position in the lineup that doesn't have to field, you would just have 8 man lineups. The pattern in all these rule changes is they're trying to make baseball more like basketball, and that's slowly destroying all the stuff that's unique and interesting about it. --- ~Wigs~ 3-Time Consecutive Fantasy B8 Baseball Champion 2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPION NEW YORK METS</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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