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From: johnp@ihuxf.UUCP (John Schleicher)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: RE:dump the DH
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Date: Fri, 3-May-85 09:50:23 EDT
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>> Roy writes:
>
>>> Dump th DH???
>>> 
>>> Why, because the sacrifice bunt is the most exciting play in baseball???
>
>
>> A sacrifice bunt requires a choice, and its excitement is strategic.
>> Also, a sacrifice bunt by a pitcher is no less exciting than a
>> sacrifice bunt by a shortstop...would you have us ban sacrifice bunts?
>> If fewer sacrifice bunts is a positive good, from your point of view,
>> wouldn't even fewer be better?
>
>>			David "The DH is an Abomination" Rubin
>>
>
>	I have an even better idea.  Why not put in a rule that pitchers
>can only throw straight pitches traveling at a speed of no greater than
>50 mph.  Boy would there be a lot of "exciting" home runs then !!!  :-)
>
>	Seriously, though.  Football and basketball have been hurt by trying
>to spice up the offense.  Let's not allow baseball to move in that direction.
>
>						Dave Van Handel


I don't know what it is about all of you vocal "dump the DH" fans out there
but given the choice I would prefer to watch an American league game over a
national league game (any team) any day of the week.  It is simply a better
contest having 9 batters who bat on a daily basis.  I too am not fond I 
watching a pitcher sacrifice bunt or strike out.  What does it add to the game?

As far as the comment of not allowing baseball to move in the direction of
trying to spice up the offense, what of the lowering of the pitcher's mound
(was it the late sixties) in both leagues to aid the offense.  I don't feel
that that was a mistake, do you Dave?

				John Schleicher
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