Just when baseball was actually looking like baseball again

we have this argument about adding the (unrestricted) DH to the NL.

uggh. What absolutely terrible timing.

Kansas City is the new standard bearer. How did they win?

Was it a big fat lazy selfish PED-using swing for the fences then go sit and take selfies douche? No. It was actual baseball. Speed, pitching, defense, and legitimate offense like situational hitting, some bunting, steals, etc. combined with the occasional bomb.

You are seeing the same evolution across the game as the large-headed roid freaks (save Ortiz to this point) retire. The Boston Red Sox now have the most defensively sound 9 man defensive unit that they've had in years, except for the Hanley Ramirez embarrassment of course, and the fat Panda disaster, though he may yet rebound. But both of those players. who were taken under fuckface David Ortiz' wing last season as they were new to the organization, were completely ostracized by the young guys who now have to spend time pretending like they respect the steroid using fraudulent clown in his sad, pathetic, "please please tell me you love me" tour that will be more nauseating and disingenuous than any you have ever seen before.

From their statements at this weekend meeting when they were asked to talk about Ortiz, they ALL know he's a joke but they are professional enough to say mostly "the right things." But it's the way they said them that showed me they hated having to say them. They were uncomfortable and felt forced to lie. That told me so much.

Anyways, back to the original point. The game is finally changing BACK to actual baseball, and now they want to pull the rug out from under the progress made by these hard-working (SMALL MARKET) teams which allows them to compete, by MAKING THE LARGER CONTRACTS LESS DANGEROUS TO THE TEAMS BY ALLOWING THEM TO STUFF CLOWNS AT DH FOR ENTIRE CAREERS.. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME YOU TURDS?

Apparently actual baseball doesn't sell enough tickets to support their outsized financial expectations, so now they will make it even worse for everyone but the largest markets by allowing them to toss money at losers like Hanley Ramirez and then when it turns out that he's a classless clown who's bad for the team, just throw him in the DH spot and blast the audience with commercials of the dude smiling so we all forget what a fucking dick he is.

Fuck that.

Fuck them.

If the NL adopts full-time career DH'ing as an option, I shit you not I will have watched the last major league baseball game of my life. The idea of watching sports is, itself, fucking stupid and the degree to which many adults dedicate themselves to it is more than a little embarrassing (it is in fact pathetic), but at least in the past we've had the illusion of supporting individuals who succeeded as a result of hard work and discipline, rather than taking the easy way out at

every

point

of their

entire

careers.


I hope David Ortiz gets injured early in this season (not life-threatening of course, just career ending, and I mean it) so that his farewell tour will be an accurate representation of the rest of his career - a fraudulent, marketing driven lie based on illegal substances and the fact that he DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO PLAY THE GAME OF BASEBALL.

Creating a fake position so that people who are TOO OLD TO PLAY THE GAME, OR SIMPLY COULD NEVER ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME so that fat one-toolers can stay on teams for marketing purposes is an insult to everyone who works hard at anything. It's also sad and pathetic. For each old guy who is shuffled off, a new young player gets a chance. That I had to point that out to you is again, embarrassing and indicative of your stupidity.

So do me a favor, dickheads. Go ahead and make this change, and by doing so, free up for me the amount of time I'd normally spend paying attention to grown men in tight pants. All such developments which free me from spending time doing the stupid shit I fell into as a result of my surroundings during my upbringing (ie. watching sports as anything more than an occasional background noise) is essentially a positive development in my life.

Just know that I will also be spending more time pointing out to people how embarrassing it is to watch them fawn over millionaires who don't care about them. ie. make this change and I'll no longer resist the urge to tell people how dumb the idea of being a fan really is.

Do as I say, or you will be my sworn enemy for life, and I'll help point out to young people how boring the game really is.