Timothy Birdnow

Boo!

Half Century Holdout Over the DH Comes to the National League

Now the two leagues are one - something I do not like at all.

I liked having different rules for different leagues. Some players did better in one league, some in another.

Now MLB is a gray paste, a victom of merger mania.

The DH rule was always about increasing hits and runs and making the game more about offense. It subtracts strategy in favor of flash. There was considerable strategy employed by managers in the National League to find ways to succeed with a poor-hitting pitcher.

Baseball joins Football, which did that some time ago with changes to the rules protecting receivers and quarterbacks so as to make passing a regular play (rather than a suprise play). Now there is little running in football; most plays feature passes. The Fullback is largely obsolete.

Basketball did this long ago, with changes to the rules making incidental contact illegal. The result was the big, fast players dominated and the stouter, stronger ones disappeared. Now basketball is just run and jump and little else. I have no use for it because it's the same tired thing. There is no strategy, which used to be a key element of the game.

So MLB is going downt he same path. More runs, more hits, one big error.

P.S. Why is the Players Union involved in setting League rules? There is nothing involving health or safety here. It is the union interfering with how baseball is being played. That is unacceptable.

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