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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Enough of DH
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 09:07:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 09:07:57 1985
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>But why is it when all the National League partisans jump up and down about the
>Designated Hitter, you never hear them complain about plastic grass, phony turf
>and those ugly symmetrical super tv studios, sometimes called stadiums.  There
>seem to be more of these abominations in the NL than the AL.  They're trying to
>destroy the one remaining true ballpark in the league, Wrigley Field.

As I said in an earlier article, while most change is deplorable,
some is more deplorable than others.  What makes the DH unique is its
deplorability is that it changes the rules of the game, while the
other evils you list change the environment the game is played in.

> I can't help remembering the '80 World Series, the battle of the phony-turfs.
> I swear that Philly beat KC solely on the basis that U.L. Washington couldn't
> "jump" higher for a ground ball than Ozzie.
 
First, you mean DeJesus, not Smith.  At the time, he was a better than
average shortstop, but still no acrobat.

						David Rubin