I apologize for my careless wording. I didn't mean to say it was "your" blog post. I'd edited that before you finished your response.
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I also recall the "competition committee" actually coming back with the remove-the-DH recommendation in return for 26 man rosters and the MLBPA calling it a non-starter. At that point, I remember it was the owners backing down rather than fight over the issue. The fact still remains that if the MLBPA had said, "That sounds like a great idea!" the DH would be gone. I also never vilified the MLBPA for rejecting the proposal, given its job was to represent its players and it would have traded off high paying jobs for lower paying ones.
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Where you're still missing a connection is that the Competition Committee =/= MLB owners. Four out of the 14 members are ownership representatives, two from the AL and two from the NL. By design, the Committee's proposals are non-binding and do not represent the position of ownership (i.e. the MLB). So maybe they did float what you're suggesting and the MLBPA issued its strong opposition and that was that. But it doesn't follow that if the MLBPA had said "great" that it would have actually come about.