A question for baseball fans .....

[RockRaven]

8. The DH one sounds dumb to me... pitchers are fast(er) outs, and if you pinch hit for the pitcher,

which is a limited-use DH equivalent, the new pitcher can be warming up while your team is at bat. There is no significant delay involved there. The big delay involved in substituting for the pitcher is switching pitchers while your team is in the field. And the DH does not affect that. Substituting a higher batting average player for you lowest batting average player will only lengthen the game.

And the data backs this up. From a quick google search, I found that games between 2 AL teams are, on average, two minutes and 15 seconds longer than games between 2 NL teams.

Seems to me that people who favor spreading the DH to the NL under the guise of speeding up games are just people who favor the DH using a specious argument to try to spread it. If they follow the data, people wanting to speed up games should be favoring eliminating the DH from the AL instead (if indeed they insist on some DH-related action).