[Magdalen] World Serious

[Christopher Hart]

An hour of EWTN ought to be worth 2 of baseball at least. If he watches
EWTN during the baseball off-season, you should get to bank those viewable
hours for the spring.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> I really hate the DH, though.
>>
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>
> Well, with or without the DH, the game has changed considerably. The DH
> was adopted in a time when pitchers, unless they simply were having a
> terrible day, were usually there for 9 innings, except for the strategic
> choice of inserting a hitter for the pitcher.
>
> But nowadays, the controlling consideration of a pitcher is pitch count.
> pitchers just get yanked at 100 pitches, whether it be in the fourth inning
> or eighth inning.  This is just as true in the National League as the
> American League -- the idea of puling the pitcher for a hitter in certain
> situations has become quite rare in the NL, as compared to the systems of
> 50 years ago.
>
> I'd challenge anyone here denouncing the DH rule in the AL to offer full
> disclosure: How many games per year have you attended during the past 20
> years? How many regular-season games have you actually watched on TV or
> listened to on radio -- start to finish, during the past 20 years?
>
> Heck,how many of you are aware that another feature of the modern game is
> to put even slightly injured players on the disabled list immediately and
> calling up promising rookies from the Minors to replace them for a game or
> three?  Out Scranton Railriders  won their division this year, but got
> wiped out in the playoffs because the parent Yankee organization had called
> up 5 of the best players to help them try to win the division?
>
> Like I  say, I don’t think that the antipathy toward the DH rule reflects
> the views of anyone who actually follows the game.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> PS Albert really hates it when I sit down to watch a game on TV, as he
> simply hates baseball, period. I tell him for every hour he has EWTN on, he
> gets an hour of baseball. He's resigned to it.
>



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