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I maybe alone but to me the best baseball games are pitchers duels. There's just something about watching a 2-1 or 1-0 ballgame that excites me. Or a no hitter wondering if the next pitch will get hit. Wondering how or even if the game is going to get blown open.
With the DH I don't see that, I see huge blowouts (CLE's win over the Yanks this year in da bronx .... what was it 22-0?) I see pitchers that get their ERA's kicked up and then they overpitch and blowout their arms at young ages.
Hell, if were up to me I'd raise the mound 6 inches (like it was until they believed pitchers had too much of an advantage and that someone like Bob Gibson was going to kill a man), get rid of the DH, give the pitchers the true strike zone (including giving the inside corner of the plate back), and prohibit batters from stepping out of the box when the pitcher is in his windup.
To me the casual fan likes the home run, the true fan and historian and lover of the game can see the nuances and the greatness of no DH.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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