]5. A few days after Roger Clemens beaned him in 2000, Piazza said that the incident had made him reassess the DH. "I thought the DH could be a good thing for me later in my career," he said, "but now I see that it's bad for baseball, because the pitcher can throw at the batter with no fear of retaliation." So what did he do after leaving the Mets? He shopped himself to American League teams with hopes of becoming a DH. None of them were interested, so he signed with the Padres, but then he went to the A's, where he happily DH'd. Hypocrite. Not the first, or last time someone, let alone a baseball player, made a declaritive comment after a real bad situation, then went back on his word, but again, as Bill would say, show me where he said that. i don't think that make him a hypocrit at all. he thinks its bad for the game, but that doesnt mean its bad for him and he'll take advantage of it as long as it exists.