Agreed. I’d gladly accept the universal DH if they also got rid of this extra inning runner rule.
The extra inning rule is indeed awful. But there shouldn’t be any need to make a trade off to get rid of it.
Like the All-Star game deciding home field before it, just 86 the extra inning rule. It’s that simple.
As for universal DH — that’s seriously messing with the fabric of baseball and the good side of it’s history. The National League is the Senior circuit and has been around longer than not only the AL (25 years longer) but also their stupid DH rule (97 years longer) that was implemented in 1973.
In short, baseball has a much longer history of no DH than with it. To my knowledge the NL never had it for 145 years sans 1 pandemic season. And the AL didn’t have it for 72 years, which is longer than the 48 years they‘ve now played under the rule.
Honestly, I’m totally fine with the AL keeping it. It‘s one of the cool things that has made the leagues different and made interleague play interesting.
I just never want to see the National League adopt it permanently and mess with 145 years of history.