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Saunders: Fans take swings at idea of designated hitter in National League

SEATTLE — There are three things you don’t talk about in polite company: politics, religion and bringing the designated hitter to the National League.

I discovered the latter after penning my last Sunday column. I wrote that I was waffling on my long-held beliefs and was beginning to think that maybe the DH in the NL wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Whoa! You’d have thought I’d slandered Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Pope Francis and golden retrievers in one fell swoop. Irate emails filled my inbox and I got fried on Twitter. In a poll in The Denver Post, nearly 66 percent voted against the NL adding the DH.