Admit it. Baseball is a living, CHANGING, entity
and those who live in the past better look out for the head high “spitter”

No easy outs. No defensive holes. What’s tradition got to do with it? Baseball is a dying game, long ago replaced as the national past time by a sport that wasn’t as beholden to tradition, willing to change with the times.

You’re not being intellectually honest here. I’m not arguing that pitchers are expected to be good hitters or that they should be. I’m just pointing out that if you’re arguing that pitchers shouldn’t hit because they’re not good hitters, then there are tons of shortstops and catchers who also fit that description. If you’d rather watch Adam Dunn hit than a pitcher, then why wouldn’t you want Adam Dunn to hit for Jack Wilson, too?

Ultimately, you don’t even address the arguments being posed to you and your rejoinders are irrelevant. You’ve ridden that slippery slope right into a pit of denial. Sad.

I dunno Alex; I might be swaying more to the ice cream than the cake. But BOTH are better than yucky old pie.

As for Mr Ice cream man, it makes a nice side to both cake and pie although I’d generally rather just have whipped cream. Exception: real Italian gelato. That stuff is all kinds of awesome. Of course my view is colored by the time the Air Force sent me to Italy as part of the NATO response to unrest in Bosnia (a few) years ago–I was housed in a hotel that had a gelateria on the ground floor, and also happened to be across the street from an Italian university (Italian college girls). Each day, I’d get back from work, the proprietor of the gelateria would insist I sit down and try his newly invented flavor (all unbeleivably good), I’d act as though my arm were being twisted, and then spend part of my evening sitting back with the wondrous concoction while enjoying the scenery. Yeah, that was a hard assignment.

Were I in your shoes, I would count how many total comments you get for this post, and write it down. Diary 6 months, and generate the following, brevity-laden post:
“Designated Hitter rule. Discuss.”
See whether you get more or fewer responses than today’s post.

I once saw Yuniesky Betancourt make this totally awesome play, too. Doesn’t mean he belongs on a major-league roster.

“If fans of AAAA baseball want to watch pichers hit (not that they can), then let them be. Unrelated, when they get sick, they can also be treated with a fine blood leeching. I hear leeches have made a come back. Yawn.”

You stay classy, AL.

P.S. Clayton Kershaw came to the plate with 2 outs in the 8th last night, with the team trying to stop a home stand losing streak, only leading by 2 runs, and he got a basehit into right field to up the score to 4-0.

I don’t know, Bro, but that sure seemed pretty awesome. And a shit-ton more exciting than anything you’ll ever do.

The argument that the logical next step to having a DH is to go ahead and have offensive vs. defensive specialists is silly. The fact is that hitting is an incredibly specialized skill, pitching is an incredibly specialized skill and fielding, not so much. The gap between competent and great hitting and pitching is far greater than it is in fielding. I don’t discount the ability for great fielders to impact the game, but they simply aren’t as valuable nor rare as are great hitters or pitchers. For reference, look at the WAR leaderboards. There are only two players who have contributed more than 10 runs defensively in all of baseball. There are 69 pitchers and 44 hitters that have done the same.

I have no problem with disliking the DH, but let’s not utilize the Glenn Beck school of thought and gleefully slide down the slippery slope, theorizing on completely implausible scenarios.

Cake is clearly #2. At least we can both agree pie sucks.

And I am offended by the dogmatic claims of those who like it and assume the rest of those who don’t are somehow Brain Damaged because we just can’t accept that the DH is clearly superior. You will find plenty of those in this and other comments sections. When I see you actually call out your dogmatic brethren for doing what you don’t like being done to by the anti-DH crowd I’ll take you more seriously.

BTW, Kevin S. has cooties.

I agree, cur68. It could lead to human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.

And where are the TV shows touting the mastery of making pie? Or ice cream? Hmmm? Right. There are none. Because everybody loves cake.