the AL is morally inferior to the NL

[MrCoffee]

we make our pitchers hit.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Yeah, baby!!! That DH thing is pure crap!!!

:woohoo:

[MrCoffee]

3. i KNEW you had a refined sense of moral decency...unlike certain degenerates in here

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Some people here are rooting for the

*gasp* Red Sox.

I like the Sox too, when they're playing the Yankees.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Well, that's just manifestly true

No need to state the obvious. :-)

[MrCoffee]

4. one can never be too casual about the truth.

[WilliamPitt]

6. Agreed, and...

It'll hurt the Sox for games 3-5.

Bench Youklis, or bench Papi? Someone has to play first base.

Sucks.

I've been the lone voice among my Sox friends who makes the heretical argument: David Ortiz cannot ever be considered for MVP honors. No DH deserves consideration. They only play half the game.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. I agree with that completely. I think they should do away with the DH, personally.

[MrCoffee]

8. "No DH deserves consideration. "

That may well be the wisest thing you ever said.



i kid! i kid!

[flvegan]

16. Depends on the DH. Yaz was phenomenal during his DH years.

[MrCoffee]

19. nice post, Papa Doc

that might fly in Vladivostok, but this is America, dammit!

[WilliamPitt]

22. Moreso than Ortiz?

Yaz won the Triple Crown playing the outfield. He still defines excellence for full-time players.

But I think Papi has better numbers, and has been more clutch, as a DH than Yaz was in the same spot. Yaz was a great DH, but Papi has been intergalactic.

Neither deserve MVP honors as DHs, imho.

[flvegan]

26. Can't compare the two.

Yaz was a DH in the twilight of his career. Ortiz is barely out of the box. Ortiz is great, but not MVP worthy. That's why I said that it depends on the DH. George Brett is another good example, IIRC, although as a Royal which takes him down 7 or 8 notches.

[Bucky]

9. You're a fucking neanderthal. Specialization is the hallmark of an advanced society.

Asking a pitcher to bat is like forcing a paraplegic to drink bleach-and-vodka martinis. What kind of sick fuck are you?

[MrCoffee]

11. the kind who thinks the DH is how you play baseball in Russia

this isn't Russia, is it?


are you now, or have you ever been, a communist?

[Bucky]

13. Hey, I'm not the "RED" Sox fan here.

[quip]

15. He didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition......

[quip]

10. Fie! It's so NL pitchers

can have candy-axed low ERAs

:nopity:

[MrCoffee]

12. i'm on to you, and i'm alerting

that kind of talk might fly at the site-that-must-not-be-named, but we believe in democracy and freedom and the right, nay, the obligation of pitchers to pick up the bat, take their three strikes like men, and sit down.

[quip]

14. LOL

Or, "grab some bench"

:-)

[NeedleCast]

17. The DH and Astroturf

are the product of our facist police-state.

[quip]

20. A warning track is for sissies! n/t

[flvegan]

18. In other words, you make folks that MOST of the time

can't hit for shit get up to the plate?

I don't like the DH rule, but I don't think pitchers should hit.

[MrCoffee]

21. what about the double switch? huh? what about that?

don't even try to rebut my iron-clad argument.

[flvegan]

23. So let's say a left handed pitcher is up

but he bats right (or vice-versa). Easy way to remove him from the game with a little arm soreness...*plunk*

[MrCoffee]

25. you would intentionally hit a pitcher? you sick bastard!

[flvegan]

27. No, I'm a left fielder.

[XNASA]

28. How about shortstops who can't hit?

Or catchers who can't run?
Or outfielders who can't throw?

Should we have designated hitters, runners and throwers for position players too? And if not, why not?

[Blue_Tires]

24. i support this message n/t

[XNASA]

29. Amen, brother.

I hate the DH.