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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua
Who wants to watch athletes toil with a skill in their sport they are clearly inept at? Hooray for the DH that keeps lamo pitchers from hitting.
And why stop with baseball? Shaquille O'Neal can't shoot free throws, basketball needs designated free throw shooters.
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But there aren't a whole class of basketball players who inherently make 30% or 40% of their free throws. Shaq makes 52%, and he's an anomaly, not the norm for centers. Pitchers are orders of magnitude worse than the worst-hitting regulars at any other position.
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Dan O'Brien screwed up his Olympic qualifiers that one year by missing the pole vault, so I say designated pole vaulters in the decathlon for decathletes who can't pole vault.
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Pitchers don't have a problem coming through in the clutch in the World Series. They have a problem hitting .140 from March through October every year.
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Tom Watson has troubles making big putts, let's get a designated putter out their on the golf course for these guys.
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This isn't a problem of missing a few clutch shots. This is a problem of major league pitchers, as a group, having the hitting ability of an average player in the Gulf Coast League.
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Chris Evert always got beat by Martina because of a weak serve, she should have had someone else serve for her.
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Her serve was good enough to make her a HOF tennis player. Dontrelle Willis' bat might qualify him for the Carolina League All Star team in a good year.