Making pitchers hit is what baseball is all about! It can produce weird, amazing moments like Koo hitting a home run off Randy Johnson, or anytime Zack Greinke has ever gone to the plate. They'd never be allowed to bat for themselves even as an exception, because nobody actually expects them to hit regularly (unless they’re some kind of verified double-threat like Ohtani). You said in one of your own videos that one of the joys of baseball is the unpredictability, and the DH removes a significant amount of that unpredictability.
It also digs - intentionally or not - at LeBron's stint in L.A. , best meme'd in '19 when Kyle Kuzma pushed a zombified LBJ into position. Don't let that Disney-tournament cereal-box 'ring' fool ya, kids....at this point LBJ is just chasing Kareem's scoring record because his prospects for ever truly challenging Jordan's GOAT status died over 10 years ago when he gave up in the post-season only to run off to Miami, declare "not 2! not 3! not 4! not 5!...." and then proceeded to get his ass handed to him by Jason Terry in the '11 finals.
The DH rule sucks! Aside from the changing of the original way baseball was played, if it's just more exciting batters and more runs being scored is your goal, why not just have offense and defense like football? Remember when your high school pitchers were usually your better athletes and were great hitters too? Then, some moron dicided that if your pitcher was a great hitter then why not just use your DH for your worse hitter on the team. So you would see your left fielder or your shortstop just playing defense and another player batting in his place. This actually was the rule at our local high school. Lame!!!!! As for extending a player's career by just hitting, can you imagine a basketball player just standing on his end of the court because he couldn't run very well anymore but was still a great shooter? C'mon. Get real. The DH rule sucks!
The DH is now used in 99 percent of professional baseball leagues around the world its stupid see a pitcher to hit 99 percent of the time its usually an automatic out!
@@joemartin1253 that's true, especially with how dominant pitching has become, but there are a few notable exceptions, like MadBum. It is probably good from an injury prevention perspective, but i still hate to see universal DH take over.
Arguments against the Designated Hitter rule: The DH seems to receive an unfair advantage. The other batters all take the field each inning, standing out there in the heat readying themselves to catch the ball with every pitch. This must take a toll on a person. The DH just sits in the dugout, resting. Part of the ritual of baseball is the defense taking the field. It’s exciting. But now, one stays behind and sits on his backside. The DH hurts the ritual. Football has a platoon system, but every offensive and defensive player takes part in it. With baseball, the DH is the only one. It’s incongruous. Also with football, it’s not practical to have a guy out there all game because of all the physical contact. You don’t have that problem with baseball. Baseball offense is not specialized. Every player bats. In football, there’s specialization. One guy throws, a few guys catch, a few run, others block, others kick the ball. Some never touch the ball. So having offensive and defensive specialization doesn’t seem odd because the sport is specialized by design. With baseball, again, it’s incongruous because on offense everyone bats and on defense everyone tries to catch the ball. We think of players by their defensive position. Ernie Banks was a shortstop for the Cubs. Johnny Bench was a catcher for the Reds. Gil Hodges was a first baseman for the Dodgers. The DH is the only one named for his offensive position. It’s incongruous.
