I spend a fair share of my free time obsessing over an online simulated baseball game that’s dreadfully outdated: Hardball Dynasty. This week, the game’s developers announced that the universal DH will soon be available, inciting furious debate in each league as some users sought to protect this tiny corner of the (fake) baseball universe where National League ball still means something.
Here’s my hill-to-die-on baseball take:
National League ball was a bad watch. I witnessed it as a fan. I wrote about it as a beat reporter. Whatever benefit the viewer might have enjoyed by seeing managerial strategy play out was destroyed by pitchers’ ineptitude in the batter’s box. They did not belong there. It was an embarrassment for the sport. We get enough awful at-bats from players actually paid to hit.
There, that take felt good to get out of my system. Now it’s your turn. What’s the baseball opinion you hold that would get you kicked out of a group chat? What’s the “universal truth” about the game that you are convinced is phooey?
Fire away. We’ll discuss them further in next week’s mailbag.
