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Originally Posted by TomVeal
The idea of separate offensive and defensive platoons - and why not a running special team, too? - is, to baseball fans, absurd on its face, but can you formulate any strong arguments against it that are not also arguments against the designated hitter?
Bear in mind that baseball and cricket are, so far as I know, the only major sports with stringent limits on substitutions. We stand against the "tide of history" and ought to be careful not to let our stance be undermined by subconscious acceptance of the other side's premises.
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We are into the 42nd year of the DH and no significant movement regarding substitutions has been made. That's why I consider your premise absurd.
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