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That is a fun article, but it is not anywhere near equivalent to a swing-off. It's more like not requiring four pitches for an intentional walk. It's something that barely affect the game for fans watching.

That is interesting. It seems that a lot of teams don't use a regular DH. As we have seen with Hinch, a lot of teams use it to give them flexibility and to give players rests without taking them out of the line-up.

There is no doubt it's all about money.

It shortens games. Given that pitchers are still getting injured at an alarming rate, I am very skeptical as to whether it has resulted in fewer injuries. Are relievers performing better? Again, I am skeptical. Basically, the only benefit I see is that we don't have a tiny percentage of games lasting so many innings that teams run out of real pitchers. That seems like an argument for letting them play real baseball for 11 innings or so and then do fake baseball startting in the 12th. I still wouldn't like it but at least it would only be a very small percentage of games.

Of course it's never happening. That is why it's just an intellectual exercise. I don't know if I would have even liked it in practice. The reason why pitchers don't bat anymore is because most of them hit poorly and they wanted to add more hitting to the game. Their solution was to not have pitchers bat and add another hitter. It would have been easier just to have 8 batters bat. Either way it would have been a big change to the game, but I don't think either fundamentally changes the way the game is played the way the extra inning nonsense does. What they are doing now is the equivalent of deciding that pitchers still bat, but they get a walk after just two balls.

I like the idea of the 8-man order with no DH better, but I am so used to the DH now, that it's not really an issue. The DH has been around since I was a kid. I will never like the extra inning base runner rule. I have not gotten used to it at all.

I don't think it has ever been in the 30s other than random polls here and there. It's been sitting from low to mid 40s pretty much all the time.

I don't want it. It's logical though. If you don't want the pitcher to bat, just don't have him bat. Why stick a DH in there who isn't even playing the game in the field?

That's what serious baseball fans want, but they don't care about us They've already got us. They want to entertain new fans.

Yes, he says untrue stuff on purpose, but I don't think he knows what he's doing in terms of some master plan. I don't think there is any thought put into his lies. it's all done in the moment. He is a salesman. I don't think he distinguishes between reality and falsehood. He just wants to make the sale and his customers buy pretty much anything he sells them. He does not need to figure out how to straighten out the falsehood later, because the truth has no value to him.

He is making good progress. He is not a star yet. He is valuable as a strong side platoon player who they can plug in at a couple of different spots reasonably well. He hit lefties in a small sample last year, but needs to that over a full season. He's not a plus defender, so he needs to hit a lot to be a star.

If injury rate is the reason, they could go back to having ties.

I have always been a peripheral fan of college football, so it doesn't bother me so much, but the conferences are ridiculous. I understand that it's all about money, but it's absurd to have conferences so big that a school doesn't play half the teams in the conference in a given year. I also hate college football overtime. Just like baseball, it bothers me to see one set of rules for regulation and a different set of rules for overtime.

Yes, it's coming. The relentless promotion of gambling and extra inning base runnrers have definitely eroded my love for the game. It will take another big hit with swing offs.

As you know, most of us here are not the target audience. I never feel like the target audience.

I think Trump and many of his supporters are also misogynistic and there are conservative women who don't have a problem with that. Or at least they have less of a problem with misogony that they do with what the other side offers or is perceived to be offering.

I think their target audiences are different. This is probably overly simplistic, but I think Limbaugh targeted pretty much the same audience that Trump now targets and that is no accident. I think Rogan targets young males without much regard to politics.

yup.

Nobody tells Lance Parrish who he can associate with!

Congratulations to the World Champion Yankees!

That must be why he pitched so poorly.

I watched the first couple of derbys out of curiousity. The concept was OK but I thought it was poorly exceuted. It lasted way too long for glorified batting practice.

I cant remember the last time I watched. I used to like watching the games when the leagues were more separate, but now I just don't care. I followed the boxscore throughout the night to see how the Tigers were doing.

The allstar game means nothing to me, but I see this as a trial to see how fans respond to it. I don't trust Manfred at all.

So, who won the game? I still see a tie when I look up the boxscore.