That’s only slightly more absurd than, “Hey, I know - let’s get a slugger to bat for the pitcher and sit on the bench the rest of the game.”

Correct - another reason the DH sucks.

Yeah, kinda. The game is too slow, maybe it needs blown up. Which fits nicely witwith my whole “they fucking ruined the game” mentality on the DH thing..

Boring baseball. The American League ruined the integrity of the game with the DH. It destroyed so much of the game’s strategy, and now you have to try to compare guys like Verlander, who almost never bats and runs bases, with pitching greats who had more than 1,000 plate appearances and all the bruises and injuries…

I hope they didn’t accidentally use the same shit the Football Hall of Fame people put on the field in Canton.

As a life-long Tribe fan I asked a White Sox fan a few years ago whether getting that monkey off their back by winning it all left him with an empty feeling each year now that that animalistic hunger had been satiated. He just looked at me and said, “Fuck no.”

I’ve gotta go with the Game 7 NBA finals over last night in terms of sheer drama. That game was tied at 89-89 for three and a half minutes until Irving hit the three with a minute to go. And I don’t even know what the baseball equivalent would be to LeBron’s block - an outfielder throwing out the go-ahead run at…

Your pop sounds like my kinda guy. Prolly wouldn’t ever shake hands with him if I knew him, though.