Peg,
I think the current set of rules favor the NL teams. I don't really see the strategy aspect of the NL to be an overpowering argument. The AL still has bunting, moving players along by situation hitting, etc. It is very boring to me to see pitchers come up and make almost automatic outs.
I know some don't and Beckett has a home run and an rbi single in the games he has pitched and batted in, but that is by far the exception than the rule.
When I say the rules favor the NL teams, I mean that AL teams have to put pitchers in the batter's box when they are not normally accustomed to being there while the NL simply uses their top pinch hitter, usually.
Ortiz has made no errors in the field this year, but unfortunately the Red Sox have had to sit one of the threesome of Ortiz/Youk/Lowell each game they play in a NL park.
As the Red Sox have only lost one game at a NL park this year, the Sox have been fortunate. But it is primarily that the NL is so much weaker than the AL right now.
I do like the idea if the disparity continues of using the DH in NL parks instead of AL parks to show the different styles to the fans of the other league though. Perhaps that would be enough to create a move to using the same rule in both leagues, whichever they decided to do.
