Why The NL needs the DH or the AL needs to drop It

by Trizz

It's an NFL game and the Patriots have just forced a 3 and out and the um lets use Jets are punting and Tom Brady is back to recieve the kick. What??? Yes, Tom Brady is back to recieve the kick that sounds just as dumb as Now Batting: Daisuke Matsuzaka. What if Dice-K gets HBP and is no longer able to throw or what if he gets hurt baserunning and I know I sound like a worried soccer mom right now but the point is that there oughta be balance in the AL and NL. You either gotta add a DH to the NL or take it away for the AL its just not fair.

The Rockies get an unfair advantage when the Sox have to choose amongst their best players and not only that they have a bottom of the lineup that includes Julio Lugo the bunter and a pitcher that can't do anything but bunt. That's automatic outs and rally killers. On the contrary, the AL gives the NL an advatage not only can their pitcher rest after each outing but they can add another hitter to the mix. Imagine if the Giants didnt have to have Barry Bonds in the outfield, and he could play everyday without sacrificing defense. When the NL goes to play the AL its alot easier to insert the best backup at the DH than for the AL to switch their best players.

What happens in a situation where a hit is needed and you have to pinch hit for the pitcher, the pitcher been very good on the mound so if you sub him you lose defense. Another unfair advantage that you don't see when the NL plays the AL, they could put their pitcher in as the DH if they wanted too and it wouldn't make much of a difference. The inbalance is ridiculous, the NL wants to talk smack and say that the AL is inferior because they have a DH, the AL whose DH's for the most part are the most popular players simply because they can hit which is why they are DH say that you are taking out the heart of lineup when you eliminate the DH. Kevin Youkilis had an all star season negated because the NL rules made David Ortiz the 1B. 

If the MLB wants closer series and interleague play step one is too balance out the leagues. There are good pitchers that prefer AL teams because they don't have to hit and good hitters that prefer the AL because they don't have to field. You can blame high payrolls but the fact of the matter is, Barry Bonds would've hit 756 alot sooner as a DH, Alfonso Soriano would still be with the Nationals if he got to play DH (remember the whole outfield controversy). From reading, it's obvious which change I prefer but if the AL were to lose the DH, it would at least enable them to keep the same roster from series to series.

Lemme know how you feel about this.

Simms1156Div-I Stud

773 days ago

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I agree the two seperate leagues are both in the MLB therefore should both play with the same rules. Thats like the NFC having a 100 by 50 field and the AFC playing arena fooball, its barely the same game. I personally am a fan of dropping the dh. It makes having a good manager or bench coach more important and adds depth to the game, in my opinion at least.

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Cougar2000All-American

771 days ago

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Let me be commissioner of baseball for 30 days. In that time, I will make the NL be a dh league, because the DH rule is in the rule book and no one wants to see a pitcher strike out three times. Then, I would make Pete Rose and the 9 that were involved in the 1920 Black Sox scandal eligible for the HOF. I would also make it mandatory that all ballparks build cry rooms, because no one wants to hear a screaming infant at the ballpark, especially when you don't or can't have kids and don't want to be reminded of that. Deciding who gets home field for the World Series would be based on interleague play and not the All-Star Game, as well as my suspending Barry Bonds for the rest of his life from the game until he either admits to being on the juice or whizzing in a cup. I would also vacate his records and make both Pittsburgh and San Francisco forfeit any games that he played in that he hit a home run and they won. The losses would remain on their records. I would also put teams in Hartford, Honolulu, Montreal and San Juan as well as disbanding the New Yuck Muts and Tampa Bay Deviled Rays and making the Florida Marlins build a new stadium.

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