I've been struggling with this topic my entire baseball watching life. I understand and can appreciate both points of view. Talking to fellow baseball fans its clearly evident that both sides are divided with little room for a gray area. What it usually boils down to is whatever league your favorite team is in you are in favor of their rules. Here are a few reasons why I am in favor of the Designated Hitter:

1) Who wants to watch a pitcher hit? Anyone who has seen Randy Johnson swing a bat can understand that it is painful to watch him step into the batters box. Baseball is supposed to be the best athletes playing against each other. If a runner is on base with less than 2 outs most of the time a pitcher will give up his at bat to try and bunt the runner over, what a waste of time.

2) Great hitters DH. Some of the best hitters of all time were full time DH's. Paul Molitor, Frank Thomas, Edgar Martinez, David Ortiz, Harold Baines and many others have made a career of sitting on the bench while their team played defense.

3) It extends the careers of great players. Edgar Martinez battled with having problems with his legs his entire career and would have had to dramatically cut his playing time if it weren't for the DH.  George Brett, Carl Yastrzemski and Paul Molitor would have also cut their career short if it weren't for the DH.

4) Who wants to watch David Ortiz play first base? The DH rule allows poor defensive players to not embarrass themselves and their team by attempting to play defense on a major league level.

    Sports is ultimately entertainment and the DH makes the game more entertaining by allowing great hitters to hit and poor hitters (pitchers) to not flail away at 90 mph sliders.