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LINCICOME: Designated Hitter Must Go

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Today, as promised, an opposing view to Ranger fan and dallas morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw, this presented by ni less an authority that Bernie Lincicome.
Cowlishaw may be an obscure name to those outside the Lone Star State. On the bother hand, Lincicome wrote for the Chicago tribune for seventeen years, and has been published in many other sports journals as well. Perhaps his voice, by nature of its renown, carries just a bit further.
Lincicome’s take on the DH? Bury it in a shoebox, ASAP!
Note these tidbits from his views expressed in today’s FamilyFirst pick:

The designated hitter phonies up the game. It is the wart on baseball’s nose – unsightly, unwelcome and unnatural. Even when it first began, it seemed, at the time, to give Carl Yastrzemski a couple of more years in the game.

Involve pitchers in each side of the game (including standing in the batter’s box after hitting an opponent with a pitch) and return the game in both leagues to where (Hank) Steinbrenner mockingly places the National League, two centuries into the past.

Fans of the DH, who also are frequently fans of the Yankees, refer to those of us who would preserve baseball’s original rules (which there was never anything wrong with) as purists, the term being spit out distastefully.
Well, call me a purist.
You know, I would be in favor of a big change in baseball:one that would give anyone named Steinbrenner a cold sweat: a salary cap that would give the Pittsburghs, the Minnesotas, and the Washingtons a chance to compete dollar for dollar with the New Yorks, Bostons, and Los Angeles’s. That way the game would be won with brains, not deep pocketbooks.
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