[AnotherUnixGeek]

The more pressing issue, however, is one of fairness and competitiveness.

If so, then the AL should ban the DH. That won't happen, because AL teams and their fans like it, and because it keeps over-the-hill players who can't field but can still swing a bat employed, which the players union loves. But there's no need for the NL to institute this corruption of the game.

[scouter]

I’m a fan of an American League team, the Orioles, and I despise the designated hitter rule. And I’ll never change. One of my fondest baseball memories is Dave McNally hitting a Grand Slam in the World Series. You just can’t beat that.

[Hot Tabasco]

because AL teams and their fans like it,

That's a falsehood perpetrated by professional baseball. If it was true then the NL would have instituted it years ago.

There is no baseball fan I know who supports the AL DH..................