The talk has heated up recently with the injury to Chien-Ming Wang (Yankees) getting hurt running the bases, and Hank Steinbrenner addressing the media demanding that the NL get the designated hitter. I don’t think the DH rule needs to change based on a pitcher not being prepared to run the bases without getting hurt, but I do think the rule needs to change.
The baseball purists would likely want the designated hitter out of the game in both leagues, making managers and pitchers earn their money. Then there is the other side of the coin where the average fan would want the DH in both leagues to promote more scoring.
I honestly don’t care if they give the National League the DH, or if they take the DH out of the game all together. However, I do think they need to change it one way or the other. It is just embarrassing that the two leagues don’t play by the sames rules. I can’t think of any other professional sport where one set of rules applies to one conference, but not another conference. Imagine in the NBA if they had the Eastern conference get to shoot free throws when they were fouled, but the Western conference teams were not allowed to go to the charity stripe unless they played an Eastern conference team in their building. How much since would that make?
Bottom line, they need to make both conferences in MLB play by the same set of rules!
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