America's League 126 - A League Of Their Own Undoing 118

[El Supremo]

The American League has shown its dominance again, taking the interleague season series from the National League for the eighth straight year. The NL has bested the the AL only four times (1997, 1999, 2002, 2003) since interleague play began in 1997. - The Denver Post

[Upton]

1. The Denver Post need to look again at their stats..

should be AL-131, NL-121..

http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110704&content_id=21388014&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb

The Giants did their part, going 10-5 against the AL. And the NL has produced 3 of the last 5 World Series winners..

[wilt the stilt]

2. This is hardly dominance

a 10 game spread over 252 games is nothing. Like I said in an earlier comment. Was the NL boring with the Big Red machine or the Giants with Mays, Pirates with Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente or currently with the Giants today?

This is a joke that you say the DH makes a league more interesting. You may like the DH more but it doesn't by it's nature make the NL game boring. What makes a game interesting if you have a high flying stealing team. Negro leagues was a push game exhibited by Jackie Robinson. This speed is very disconcerting and really an aggressive way to play. What is lacking today is the Lou Brocks,Maury Wills or Ricky Hendersons. By and large station to station 3 run HR baseball is kind of boring. The 3 run HR has been the staple of the AL forever.

The real reason the Al has won more games recently is the fact that they( Bosox, Yankees) spend more money. The only NL team that really spends is Philadelphia. The Dodgers are kaput as are the Mets. They may spend a little but their management stinks.

Let's take an example of this premise. The Red Sox of '75 had the DH and the Red's did not. The Red's had Morgan who could steal and Rose who although he couldn't steal was a rather aggressive base runner. They also had a great mix of hitting with speed and power. They played super aggressive baseball. Do you honestly think that the Red Sox played a more interesting style of game and they were more interesting than the Red's because they had the DH?

It's the style of ball that makes a team interesting. Because we hardly have any African Americans playing anymore we have lost the style of the Negro leagues.