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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
For one thing, I did grow up in an AL town (Seattle!) and so it doesn't bother me so much in the first place.
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This is it exactly. People need to drop the pseudo-intellectualism about which set of rules is better and acknowledge that the most formative part of their opinion is what team they followed as a kid. Sort of like the old argument about your religion of preference being highly correlated to what country you were born in.
However, I will say that there is an appeal in arguing that everyone on a MLB team should own a glove and be able to use it. Being able to field and throw are traditionally two of the fundamental skills of the game.
Being anti-DH does not mean I am against new rules. It just means I am against that rule in particular.