Once Again, American League too Tough

Another beaseball season has come and gone, and once again, the American League has prevailed.
It has happened quite often lately, and it's beginning to look as though the A.L. has a bit of a dominance over the "senior circuit."
Now, before you self-dubbed "purist" National League fans start getting all bent out of shape, screaming about the designated hitter, or the Cardinals in '06, or the Marlins and Diamondbacks clubs that have won the Series recently, look at what has been going on between the two leagues over recent years.
For one, the last time that the N.L. won the All-Star Game was all the way back in 1996, a 6-0 victory.
The American League is 10-0-1 since 1997 (the 7-7 tie in '02 being the only non-win), and has won 16 of the last 20 mid-summer classics, with the National League winning three ('94, '95, and '96), with the last one being over a decade ago. Put it this way, if your kid is less than 14 years old, he probably doesn't remember seeing the National League win an All-Star Game. That' dominance.
There was a time when the N.L. fan could say that the All-Star game doesn't mean anything, but as we all know, now it does, as the winner hosts the World Series. That means something.
Over those 20 years, the A.L. has outscored the N.L. 110-74.
In the fall classic since 1991, the A.L. has won 11 out of the last 16 series', and they have beaten the N.L. 55 series games to 33.
To look even further at National League futility against the American League, consider in the last four years, the A.L. has won the Series three times, and the N.L. has failed to win a game in any of those series'. That's dominance.
Or, just look at what happened this year. The Colorado Rockies were America's darlings, winning 21 of 22 games going into the Series, including back-to-back sweeps of the Philadelphia Phillies, who got hot in mid-September to steal first place away from the reeling Mets, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, who were the best team in the National League all season long.
The Rockies got an eight-day layoff between game four of their series with the Diamondbacks and the first game of the World Series. Some of the experts wondered if the layoff might hurt Colorado, who had been a team afire going into the series.
Maybe that did have something to do with it, but the team that had somewhere around a .280 batting average looked like a little league team against Josh Beckett and company.
Let's face it, folks. I know that, like I said earlier, you can bark about the '06 Cardinals, a vicious veteran lineup that went against the young Tigers' pitching staff (who also committed at least one error in each game against the Cards), or the '03 Marlins and the '01 D-backs who beat the Yankees, but those three teams have been the exception rather than the rule for the National League against their A.L. rivals.
Regardless of wether they use the designated hitter (hitters hitting, kind of makes sense), or the (Ho-Hum, yawn yawn) pitchers-behaving-badly-trying-to-hit National League rules, the American League is bi-annually torturing the National League, in the All-Star Game and in the World Series, and I'm loving it.