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the reason the AL does NOT suck is because 1) no one wants to watch a pitcher hit, and 2) in the AL, you don't have to worry about pulling your pitcher early to get a hit, you can leave him in during a close game and still not sacrifice offense.
In the AL, you have more hitting and good pitchers staying in the game longer....how does that suck?
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Reasons the AL sucks compared to the NL
<ul type="square">[*]A half brain-dead person with a rubberstamp can manage an AL team. 95% of the on-field management decisions can be made with the following logic problem: IF Pitcher = good THEN Leave in ELSE Change
[*]The so-called added offense resulted in an extra 1/3 hit per game and 1/4 run per game last year. That's two runs per week more in all AL games COMBINED vs. all NL games
[*]AL MARTIN was a DH on opening day. This alone shows how absurd this rule is.
[*]If the DH is such an important position, why do a lot of teams bat him last?
[*]Similarly, if I had Mike Hampton pitching in an interleague game, I'd rather have him bat
[*]There is absolutely no strategy in the AL. All batting lineup positions are rendered homogenous because there is no pitcher. Do you think a #8 batter is pitched to differently than the #6 batter in the AL?
[*]Double switch? Drrr...what's that?
[*]What good is having a deep bench if you're going to have the same guys hit all the time?[/list]
My point is that the American League plays a watered-down version of baseball.
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