The start of a pair of blogs over the question of DH vs no DH

Hello Again,

So I know, I haven't been blogging in quite a while, I've been busy with personal and medical issues, but now its time to restart my blog. For the longest time, I have been a bigger fan of the American League, and their logical use of the Designated Hitter instead of the unnecessary use of pitchers as batters. My reasoning behind this is simple, too many pitchers when they go up to bat don't even take the bat off of their shoulders, so they're automatic outs, why keep this up? Even the ones that hit don't really go all out to try to get on base, see Jason Hammel of the Chicago Cubs earlier this season in a game that I was in attendance for against the Pittsburgh Pirates. It was early in the game, I can't remember which inning, but it was quite early, he hits a weak grounder back to the pitcher and didn't even bother to leave the batters box. Yes I know, the ground-ball to the pitcher is a routine out, but with all of the bad defensive play across the board you can at least start down the baseline to put some pressure on the pitcher to make a good throw. This is just plain laziness, too lazy to even walk out of the batters box, I get it his job is to pitch not to hit and run, but that explains why pitchers shouldn't be batting. The average Designated Hitter in the American League is an older player, who is on his last legs, can't really play defense but can still make valuable contributions with his bat. Prime examples of this are David Ortiz and Adam Dunn, guys who are defensive liabilities to say the least, but can still contribute by driving in runs. With how powerful the MLBPA is and how much sense this would make, I wonder why they haven't attempted to force the National League to drop the pitchers batting rule and adopt the Designated Hitter. Many players' careers would be extended by having more teams able to use a designated hitter, and teams' younger players could be called up and play earlier in their places in the field. This makes too much sense for the MLBPA to not force the NL to adopt the DH, they want players to have longer careers, and they have the influence in order to make this happen, even through collective bargaining. At the very least the American League should not have to have pitchers bat who don't at any other time during the year other then during interleague games, just so they can risk injury doing things they're not used to doing.