no DH. no artificial turf. no wild card. no unbalanced schedule. no interleague play.
no DH. no artificial turf. no wild card. no unbalanced schedule. no interleague play.
To that, I would add, let’s trim back the regular season so that we don’t have November baseball. This year, the World Series will end in November.
I enjoy baseball but the season is too long, what with all these layers of playoffs, and they end up playing the most important games of the year in bad baseball weather sometimes. Bad weather which could be avoided if they simply slice a few weeks off the calendar.
I agree.OTOH there actually is a bias against the visiting team in baseball’s single-substitution rule. The bias is that when you get to, say, the seventh inning and you pinch hit for your pitcher, if you’re the visiting team you have to substitute a new pitcher in the bottom of the seventh. If you’re the home team, your pitcher has already pitched the top of the seventh when you substitute a hitter for him.
The result of that situation is that the DH rule helps the disadvantaged visiting team. And, as a result, (the issue of the adaptation of the roster to the DH rule aside) the NL team visiting an AL park is better off than an AL team visiting a NL park.
no DH. no artificial turf. no wild card. no unbalanced schedule. no interleague play.
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Agree with everything you stated and for my part, they could eliminate the all star game and any “home run derbies”.