What's done is done, I guess. Baseball is "dead". It was on its way anyway due to Sabermetrics which made the game unwatchable (but that's a different subject).
Oh well, I'll still go to the 'ole ball park for a beer and a hot dog. But that's about it.
The Dodgers used to have pitchers who could hit, too. Rick Rhoden, Terry Forster, and of course Don Drysdale were all very good to excellent hitters.
This is what you get for introducing interleague play.
I quit watching after they had those poor bunts up on top of those pyramids in Mexico, sacrificing them so they would have good crops.
What’s done is done, I guess. Baseball is “dead”.
***3 things could revive baseball.
1) Put in automated strike zone detectors. Umpires are entirely too capricious in calling out the strike zone.
2) Put in a 20 second or 15 second or whatever second rule for pitchers to have to throw a pitch just like the 20 second rule for basketball. Baseball is far too much farting around, squeezing 15 minutes of play into 3 hours.
3) Make the distance and height of homerun fences standard.
There will still be sacrifice bunts... There will be fewer bunts, but they will still be needed from time to time.
Pitchers do not get enough practice to properly hit... This is the best move baseball has made in a very long time and they’ve been indicating the end of pitchers hitting for decades.
Stopped watching a long time ago. Professional sports cease to be sports eventually.
Sports were better when the idea was to play them, not just watch them.
So, pitchers, who happen to be decent with hitting (I know, not many), can’t be allowed to pinch hit, at the major league level? I can see a situation where a game goes into extra innings and teams end up using up all of their reserve players, with the exception of their pitchers. In such a situation, will teams have the option of using pitchers as pinch hitters?
Not only was Kershaw the best pitcher of the last decade...
Ha ha ha. Good one.
Is Bob Costas freaking out?
Greg Maddux was the best. Bobby Cox would even use him in pinch hitting situations to bunt when Maddux wasn’t pitching.
Worst thing that Baseball ever did was play games at night. Next worst thing was the DH.
I stopped watching forever in 1994 when those fools went on strike.
Baseball is played in the daylight and every Player should have to use a glove. Around my area, David Ortiz is an icon. I think much less of him than do my neighbors.
The NL would have had far more credibility to keep the pitcher in the lineup if these pitchers didn't almost universally suck at the plate.
The game will survive, though I suspect it will continue to fade as a major sport for reasons that have nothing to do with the DH rule.
If they do that why not just go to complete platoon baseball with a complete offensive team and a complete defensive team? It would be easy in baseball.
I do not advocate that and I don’t like designated hitters.
I guess this means the Dodgers aren’t coming back, huh?
The DH corrupts the game. Yes, pitchers are notoriously poor hitters, but the NL game brought about all kinds of creative ways to live with it.
Get rid of the cgi animation showing the strike zone, line of the ball when hit.
Same for football. Stop with the video games and speed up the play.
I remember Tommy John hitting a grand slam home run many years ago.
The DH is a crisp rule. Align the two leagues by simply taking the pitcher out of the hitting line-up. An 8 man line-up is more than adequate.
Or go back to the original rule and stop screwing around with a great game.