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I think putting playing in a DH league on a par with betting on a game in which one has a duty to perform is laughably harsh. Literally, because I laughed when I read that. Thank you for that. It made my day.
I have never heard that Major League Baseball ever offered MLBPA a 26 man roster in exchange for killing off the DH. Can you supply a link to that news story? Because I have been well informed about the business of major league baseball for over thirty years, and that one got completely by me. Don't take it personally when I say I'm initally skeptical of this claim. I am also not quite convinced that a clear majority of fans oppose the DH, at least here in 2015. I can't find any poll on the DH in the past decade that uses accepted sampling techniques, such as those employed by Gallup. If you have a link to a recent one, would love to see it.
In any event, I can see how it would be fun to devise a system by which the DH would be destroyed for good. After, OOTP is in part a fictional league simulation game, and what fun is inventing and managing a fictional league without meticulously designing the system that underpins it? But outside of your post, I have seen nothing about anyone inside of baseball leading a movement afoot to relegate the DH to the dustbin of history. All the evidence indicates to me it's going quite the opposite way, and in fact, I will bet you a dollar that the National League adopts the DH in time for the 2017 season. You up for that?
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