>the designated hitter ruins baseball

>intentional walk

>basketball is better now than in the 80's

>balk

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>i enjoy watching my pitcher strikeout 50% of the time and get a base hit literally once every 10 plate appearances because theres a small chance he hits a homerun every 100 or so times he tries to bat

>>74957454
get me a fucking rake

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>hitters not pitching

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>Protein shakes

>>74955265
>The Designated Fatman

>designated hitters
>intentional walks
>pinch runners

It's like they schemed up how to make the sport even more shit after they made the major rules.

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>pitcher batting 8th

Want to make basebore more exciting? Ban intentional walks and require each team to have one dog in the lineup at all times

>>74957454
>i want people to score all the time because my brain doesnt work correctly. i have no attention span, dont appreciate subtlety or nuance, and am only entertained my home runs

t. a fan from a team in the AL

>>74958033
i like being even more bored watching an already boring sport as well!

>>74958177
>Implying pitching battles aren't the best thing ever

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>>74958033
>I support an objectively more boring and less quality game because league homerism is one of the few ways I derive satisfaction in my life by justifying the use of utterly archaic rules with lazy appeals to the indistinct values of subtlety and nuance

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>>74958033
>mfw attention spanlets can't appreciate a 0-0 game with zero hits

>Number of Canadian Teams in the NL: 0
>Number of Canadian Teams in the AL: 1

The facts are clear. The NL is superior

>>74958437
but that leaf team is in the only relevant division in baseball

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>jordan is better than lebron

>>74958189
This, you might as well not be american if you don't enjoy this. Fucking faggots

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>It's better to only take three pointers and layups

Baseball is most exciting when players start getting on base and the defence starts making plays to take away extra bases or otherwise slow them down

>>74958266
rake time

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>>74964642
(You) might like pesäpallo.

>yfw the AL introduces designed runners to 'speed up the game'

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>>74964627
>the big dog

>>74966231
Professional pesäpallo player here ama

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>>74966711
So (You) are coming?

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>>74957514
>he didn't consume protein shakes twice a day

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>>74957894
>pitcher batting 4th

>>74968105
>not televised

Someone invade Finland and change this

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>>74955265
Designated hitters are called jokers in pesäpallo

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>catcher leading off

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>>74972339
Is that a man or a woman?

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>>74972456
She is a girl

>>74957514

Fuck that image it can't be real