Sunday, April 4, 2010
Now impersonating an actual ballplayer, your AL pitcher!
American League managers have instructed their pitchers to take every pitch when playing in a National League game. "Take" as in "stand there with the bat on your shoulder and watch the ball as it crosses the plate." Whether this is a dictum only for these final Spring Training matchups or, as I fear, something that will endure throughout the season, I don't know. What I do know is that it's a travesty, a mockery of baseball as it should be played, a disrespecting of the AL pitchers who at least at one time were real ballplayers, and why I HATE HATE HATE the whole idea of the "designated hitter." Bah! A pox on all those AL houses. Shame on you.
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Sounds very similar of current politics to me. "No matter what they put out there, just say "No"." Don't swing at anything. Is this sort of thing becoming a national trend?
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