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Originally Posted by RchW
You're confused. No pro-DH case is being made or needs to be made. The DH is not going anywhere and no amount of sneering invective will change that fact. Most of this thread seems to revolve around comparing how much you guys hate the DH as a substitute for a pissing contest. It's funny and sad at the same time.
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So your "case" is, "I don't care if it's an awful rule, but hahahahaha it's not going anywhere!"
That's no argument for it. And obviously, if it had 0% support among fans (to be clear, I'm not claiming anything like that as the actual level) it would be gone next season.
Arguments over sports rules are arguments over what
should happen. Anything else is pointless. If you have to resort to "Well, it's not going away!" then that seems to show you can't justify it as something others should want, just as something they can't get rid of, and just sort of mocking those like me who'd love to get rid of it with "Hahahaha, but you won't!" Then the pro-DHers throw in the inevitability rhetorical technique about "drop your opposition to expanding it to the NL, because that's inevitable, too." And that part is BS. The DH would even be gone from the AL already if the MLBPA had been willing to allow it.
I don't see any realistic chance to be gone from the AL in the foreseeable future because the MLBPA would require much more in return than the owners would offer. But again, that's no reason to say its existence is good.
Analogy: I don't want to age. Most people don't. None of us can stop it. I don't think many would try to argue that aging is good on the basis we can't stop it, though. Some might argue it as good in terms of clearing room for new generations, or something, but even when you take something truly 100% unavoidable, unavoidability is no argument.