The Designated Hitter

What should be done with the DH?

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tigervol9802

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#1
This debate deserves its own thread.

Love it? Hate it? Evolution of the game or blasphemy?

Have at it.
 
#5
#5
I can understand both sides, I'm a fan of the AL, so naturally I prefer the DH.

Who wants to see a pitcher go take 3 pitches and head back to the dugout?

Then again, if you bat, you should field.

Across the board or do away with it.
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GahLee said:
I can understand both sides, I'm a fan of the AL, so naturally I prefer the DH.

Who wants to see a pitcher go take 3 pitches and head back to the dugout?

Then again, if you bat, you should field.

Across the board or do away with it.
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It's okay if you have Mike Hampton or Zambrano hitting. Even Micah Owings. When you get goobers like Sabathia batting, it is just comical.
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#7
#7
Some fat people who can't do ish in the field. But they can bat.

Everybody should use it. More hits= more fun/excitement imo
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UTvol2011 said:
Some fat people who can't do ish in the field. But they can bat.

Everybody should use it. More hits= more fun/excitement imo
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I feel the opposite way, home run derby games are the fart jokes of baseball, fun once in a while.
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#9
#9
Give me the option that ensures more strategy and less offensive inflation.
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#15
#15
Managers are basically overrated, useless sacks of ass anyway. The toughest decision any of them ever has to make is when you're down by one in the sixth or seventh inning and your starter has been lights out and he's coming up. It's one of the very few times that a legitimately interesting decision has to be made by the fat old guy who is inexplicably wearing a uniform. Why would you take that -- and 80 percent of the other interesting strategical decisions that baseball has to offer -- out of the sport so that Luke Scott gets to hit four times a game?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Managers are basically overrated, useless sacks of ass anyway. The toughest decision any of them ever has to make is when you're down by one in the sixth or seventh inning and your starter has been lights out and he's coming up. It's one of the very few times that a legitimately interesting decision has to be made by the fat old guy who is inexplicably wearing a uniform. Why would you take that -- and 80 percent of the other interesting strategical decisions that baseball has to offer -- out of the sport so that Luke Scott gets to hit four times a game?
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Somebody on the radio was going off on Joe Torre when he left New York, going off about how only a couple of managers in history have really made any difference (he wasn't one of them). For nearly every other manager ever, the effect is really only plus or minus a few games over the course of a whole 162 game season.
 
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milohimself said:
Somebody on the radio was going off on Joe Torre when he left New York, going off about how only a couple of managers in history have really made any difference (he wasn't one of them). For nearly every other manager ever, the effect is really only plus or minus a few games over the course of a whole 162 game season.
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Tactically, the difference between a millions-of-dollars-a-year "real" manager and a basement-dwelling Strat-O-Matic player is, at most, a couple of games a year. It's probably impossible to quantify the clubhouse-managing skills of a guy like Bobby Cox (who was a crummy tactical manager), but if managers are worth anything, that's where the value is.

It's certainly worth noting that Torre was a freaking bum as a manager until he got to the Yankees, where he had unlimited payroll, and then he was a god. And then he went to the Dodgers, where he was good, and then their payroll ran out and he sucked again. Francona was an idiot with the Phillies and now he's an idiot savant with the Red Sox. My cat could manage a baseball team, given a sufficiently magnificent payroll.
 
#19
#19
And there you have it. Requirements for a manger in baseball: Scowl, sunglasses and look not quite so ridiculous in a baseball cap at 50 years old.
 
#21
#21
For those that think managers don't matter I have to question your knowledge of the game.
How do you explain how certain managers win wherever they go and yet other do not?
Who do you think puts the game plan together i.e. How they pitch certain batters and how the fielders set?
Who do you think calls the steals or tells batters when to take or bunt or swing away etc?
There's so much that goes into managing a baseball team. From rotation to line ups and more.
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#22
#22
As a fan I dont care for the DH. But it has made many a washed up fielders wealthy by extending their careers.
 
#23
#23
Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it.

I have never understood the purpose of the DH.
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#25
#25
they're all baseball players. make them all hit. makes no sense to exempt one position from having to bat.
 
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