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·I personally don’t know why people make a fuss over this rule. I like the variety and believe that it keeps baseball exciting in both leagues. 
Buy if I had a preference, without a doubt, I would easily take the DH. I find that it is an embarrassment to have the pitcher up at bat. The pitcher is paid to pitch, hence the word pitcher. He is too valuable to have at the plate trying to hit the ball and running the bases. Wouldn’t it be a sin for your best pitcher to hurt himself while trying to run the bases or up at bat?
Plus looking at some of the pitchers trying to bat is just plain horrible! It is an automatic out in baseball where the pitchers don’t even try to get a hit if no one is on base with two outs. Randy Johnson is a prime example of how bad this looks! It seems as though the pitchers don’t even want to be up when it is their turn.
Well you can argue this both ways but the way that I look at this is to imagine it this way.
Pretend that baseball when it first started long ago used the DH rule instead of having the pitcher at bat. And also pretend that the pitcher having to bat rule just came about within the last 20 years (Kind of reversing the history). It would be absolutely crazy to have the DH rule for the first 100 years and then all of a sudden having the pitchers come in to hit. People would start to say that the game has lost its appeal and has turned into a boring strategy. It makes sense to have pitchers and batters.
Now I feel that most of the people who are opposed to the DH rule are coming from two perspectives. Either they are National league fan or they are traditionalist. They can’t stand the rules changing and believe it disrupts the game. Once a new way of playing baseball occurs, they start to freak out.
If you really think about it, you have pitchers and batters. Not pitchers, batters, batter/pitchers and pitcher/batters. There really isn’t any purpose in having a pitcher at bat. Just my thoughts.
Buy if I had a preference, without a doubt, I would easily take the DH. I find that it is an embarrassment to have the pitcher up at bat. The pitcher is paid to pitch, hence the word pitcher. He is too valuable to have at the plate trying to hit the ball and running the bases. Wouldn’t it be a sin for your best pitcher to hurt himself while trying to run the bases or up at bat?
Plus looking at some of the pitchers trying to bat is just plain horrible! It is an automatic out in baseball where the pitchers don’t even try to get a hit if no one is on base with two outs. Randy Johnson is a prime example of how bad this looks! It seems as though the pitchers don’t even want to be up when it is their turn.
Well you can argue this both ways but the way that I look at this is to imagine it this way.
Pretend that baseball when it first started long ago used the DH rule instead of having the pitcher at bat. And also pretend that the pitcher having to bat rule just came about within the last 20 years (Kind of reversing the history). It would be absolutely crazy to have the DH rule for the first 100 years and then all of a sudden having the pitchers come in to hit. People would start to say that the game has lost its appeal and has turned into a boring strategy. It makes sense to have pitchers and batters.
Now I feel that most of the people who are opposed to the DH rule are coming from two perspectives. Either they are National league fan or they are traditionalist. They can’t stand the rules changing and believe it disrupts the game. Once a new way of playing baseball occurs, they start to freak out.
If you really think about it, you have pitchers and batters. Not pitchers, batters, batter/pitchers and pitcher/batters. There really isn’t any purpose in having a pitcher at bat. Just my thoughts.
