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[quote]Originally posted by Geiiga:
<strong>Okay, I hear a lot of people complaining about pseudo-recent changes in baseball...the wild card system, the DH rule, the league championship series...and I want to know why.

I like the wild card system...if you win your division, you move on, and if you're good, but like the Athletics of last year, in an unwinnable division, you still get another shot.
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I like the wild card as well, I enjoyed seeing the 1998 Cubs in the playoffs.

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I like the DH rule. Pitchers suck at hitting. I don't want to watch some guy swing the bat like he's on valium, I want to see an over-the-hill slugger who's too old to take the field anymore.
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I hate the DH. There is no reason why Jose Canseco shouuld still be playing. Same thing with Harold Baines. Frank Thomas should learn how to play 1B again. It also takes a lot of the strategy out of a baseball game. In the NL you worry about, well do I pull out the pitcher for a pinch-hitter in th 5th inning? We've got a runner on second with 2 out, and we're down a run, but the pitcher's been pitching pretty good, and even though he's at 80 pitches the bullpen could use some rest. You dont' worry about that kind of thing in the AL. Pull the pitcher when he's tired, you don't have to worry about it when he's up to bat, and that kind of strategy makes a huge difference. Why do you think the AL traditionally scores more runs than the NL? Because instead of pitchers who usually drive in 3 runs a year, you have other guys batted 9th who drive in 90 runs apiece. The only DH I like is Edgar Martinez, but he used to play 3B, and I'll bet still could, albeit pretty badly. Plus I love to see guys like Mike Hampton slug 7 homers, that's right just 7.

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I really like the expanded playoffs. More baseball for my money, and you get classic moments like the Royals and Yankees clashing at the end of every year in the late '70s.
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I also have to say that I like this.

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In addition, I hate interleague games EXCEPT for Cubs-Sox games....those are great. BUT, if that idiot Selig would get rid of interleague play, I can live without the crosstown games. Besides the Cubs have no problem selling out the stadium, it's the Sox who can't sell more than 19,000 a game even when they were in 1st place back in 2000.