Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!pete From: pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: dump the DH Message-ID: <5515@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-May-85 02:19:01 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.5515 Posted: Tue May 7 02:19:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 9-May-85 02:34:31 EDT References: <2597@ihuxf.UUCP> <607@fisher.UUCP> Reply-To: pete@maryland.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 35 > >Tsk, tsk. DH-proponents ask the wrong question. The proper question >is "what does the DH add to the game?"; the burden of proof rests upon >the proponents of change. Moreover, all responses to my anti-DHism >ignore my most salient points, probably because they are not >answerable: > > ...... > Well, as the proponents say, it lets aging hitters stick around and does create a bit more hitting and excitement than having a pitcher always hit, so I like it for this. BUT: the cost in terms of the strategy game (when to pinch-hit for a pitcher, which pitcher to bring in knowing that he will probably be pinch-hit for in the next inning, etc) is too great, and it is too radical a change to the way baseball has always been played, so... I would have to vote to get rid of it for purity's sake. Too bad that what I consider one of the other great problems in baseball can't be voted out: artificial turf. I hate the stuff; it is an abomination. As surely as as the pitcher was meant to hit, baseball was meant to be played on grass. Some AL teams have artificial turf, but the NL is the big offender here. It's getting to the point where I hate to see those giant symmetric plastic ballparks (but somehow I can't turn off the tube; I'm hooked ). And don't get me started on domed stadiums... Ahhh. A pitcher batting in the sun on a grass field, one of baseball's greatest sights!!! ;-) -- Call-Me: Pete Cottrell, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Dept. UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!pete CSNet: pete@umcp-cs ARPA: pete@maryland