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It must be tough getting priority treatment your whole life and then learning that someone else is going to get something.

Just out of curiosity, what is Canadian bacon? I don't think that there is a product like that sold in Canada.

I’ll not say pitchers were ever equal to everyday players as hitters in MLB. The introduction of the DH into the game is nearly 50 years old now. Pitchers don’t bat in college ball or any level of minor league ball to my knowledge. I’m not aware of high school baseball rules regarding pitchers batting. My point is that pitchers’ skills at the plate, by the time they arrive at the major league level have been diminished as a result of never being a part of the offense through their progression up the chain. So today, pitchers are viewed as a wasted at bat. Well, that’s what the system has created over the years. I prefer having pitchers bat-in both leagues. Hated the DH the day the idea was hatched. It seems that the more the game changes, the more problems surface.

I was close. And I think I prefer spelling out defeated former president. Don’t acronymize it. Spell it out, give that title its proper due.

Man, I was thinking earlier today about Huey’s spring training photos back in the day. How spoiled were we then?

This is accurately portraying how the alt-right want this to go.

It would be calculated the same way as games would still be nine innings long. What would change is that 8 hitters get more at bats and pile up more counting stats. if they changed to 8 innings, so that players wouldn't get more at bats they might change the ERA calculation to base it on eight innings. However, pitchers never pitch nine innings anymore anyway, so they could just leave it the same and keep it comparable across years.

They are already skewed beyond recognition by having a game of home runs and strikeouts.

The DH is no longer an experiment. It is the state of the game. Every league above high school uses it. Only two leagues in the world do not. Pitchers will never get any better at hitting for a simple reason: they never work on it. Why should they? They never hit in college, they never hit in wood bat leagues, they never hit in foreign rookie leagues, and they never hit in the minor leagues. Most pitchers hardly step to the plate even in the major leagues. Of the 901 current active pitchers who have played in the majors, 242 of them haven't logged even a single plate appearance, and exactly have of them have three or fewer career plate appearances. Why bother working on your hitting if you're basically never going to hit? Every moment a pitcher works on his hitting is a moment spent not working on his pitcher. It would be a waste of his time. The only pitchers who have the luxury of working on their hitting are those who receive guaranteed multi-year contracts with National League teams. Sure, it was fun to watch Jon Lester work hard so he could get his first big league hit and home run, but he still ended up hitting .115 for his career. And that's what a good-hitting pitcher hits. Too often, too many pitchers try to make outs, on purpose and sometimes under manager's orders, to preserve his health for his pitching. They'll swing half-heartedly at pitches not intending to hit them (which would be a disaster because they might accidentally get a hit and have to risk injury on base), or more likely, just watch three strikes go right down the pipe. Some people might find that charming, but I think trying to make out makes for a dishonest at-bat, and I don't find it charming to watch the guy at the plate try to make out on purpose. Bring on the universal DH.

But all those deaths under Biden are unvaccinated Republicans. Nothing Biden can do about peoples' stupidity.

It wasn't always as bad as it is now though, today these guys have not consistently practiced hitting since they were kids. They were always bad, but not this bad, and you could get an entertaining outlier like Earl Wilson every now and then. Some other damage that the DH did was that it eliminated pinch-hitting, so people like Gates Brown, Jim Dwyer and Smoky Burgess would never have had so much success, and some high-tension entertainment moments in the game completely disappeared. Without it the bench would be longer by a player or two, and the pitching staff would be shorter by a least one max-effort, one-inning reliever. The American League did it at a time when there was a ridiculous imbalance in talent between the National League and the American League, the American League wanted more scoring, and created a spot that could be filled by fading National League power hitters like Orlando Cepeda and Rico Carty. The '73 Tigers would have loved it, they had a whole team of designated hitters. Did the change make watching the games more enjoyable? Not for me it didn't. Did it make playing in an amateur league more enjoyable? Not for me it didn't.

And pitchers hitting a cumulative .050 is a waste of time. Gimme the DH. And rotate position players into the DH for a half day off per casimir's plan...

So, that means you won't make excuses for him.

What operating pipeline was shut down?

If fans don't want to watch the pitcher bat, don't have him bat. Just have the other eight guys bat. Why do we need a bunch of old, fat and slow DH's? DHs are boring.

more runs for the league, more fat dh salaries for the players. win win.

Love watching the Bills stomp the Pats. Eat it, Patricia. Just don't let up.

I miss seeing old names when looking in old threads on the former site. Tigercap. WMUDan. NotoriousCPC. Moonlight Graham. funny story on moonlight. Met him at one of the gatherings. Later on after a game I notice he is next to me on MIchigan Avenue. I get his attention and he rolls down his window and I ask “are you moonlight Graham?”

The Mexican 1984Echoes

I am using my freedom of speech to say that I think that the Overthrow America Network is bad for this country. If you don’t like it then go back to Russia.

But the good thing is that the school systems that benefit from these revenues are swimming in plenty of funds.

I got a few autos from 45 team.

Really sad situation playing out locally