There’s a reason fewer people are watching Major League Baseball — the league is stuck in its ways.
Just look at how the league  handled instant replay. 
The first time umpires used it was in a 1999 regular season game between the Cardinals and Marlins. Florida’s Cliff Floyd hit what appeared to be a home run off the top of the wall, but the umpires ruled it a double. After
deliberating, they changed the call to a home run but then changed it back to a double after one of the umpires saw a television replay. 
In typical MLB style, the National League decided the umpires made an error in looking at video replay.
You’re probably thinking that because the umpires made the right call, the league decided to implement instant replay following the incident, right? Wrong, you fool. It took nine more years for the league to add instant replay reviews of just home runs.
With the MLB being this stubborn about something as basic as replay, it should come as no surprise that the NL is still clinging to it’s rule against designated hitters.
I know it’s tradition. Growing up a Cubs fan, I have watched non-DH baseball in the MLB my whole life because they used to only play a handful of games in American League ballparks. I was just as snobby as the NL with my opinion of the DH. If you didn’t field, I didn’t think you were a baseball player.
But since the league moved the Astros out of the NL Central and into the AL West and every team began playing more interleague games, I’ve grown to enjoy the AL’s style.
In a world where offense is king and people want to see more runs, pitchers have no business ever stepping into a batter’s box. Some players, like the Cubs’ Travis Wood or the Yankees’ CC Sabathia, can really hit the ball — or at least have in the past — but not to the level of an everyday Major League hitter.
Pitchers batted .122 last season. That’s laughable. If any regular hitter produced that low of a clip, he’d be on his way back to the farm system instead of picking up a bat every fifth day.
I even see the joy in watching pitchers try to hit. It’s like when Will Ferrell played in spring training. You watch, hoping for a bat to go flying, a twirl or two in the box or Bartolo Colon to have to run. Colon moving his feet is alone worth the price of admission to any MLB game.
But as Nationals’ ace Max Scherzer told reporters this weekend, “Who’d people rather see hit: [David Ortiz] or me?”
Call me crazy, but I’ll take the designated hitter with 470 career home runs over the pitcher.
The biggest blow to the traditionalist argument occurred Saturday when Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright suffered a season-ending Achilles injury while trying to jog to first base on a pop-up on Saturday.
Losing its star pitcher should be a devastating blow to the NL Central leader. It could end the Cardinals’ chances of reaching the postseason, but they’ll somehow acquire a top pitcher for a bucket of rain water from yesterday’s storm because they’re still the Cardinals. But at the end of the day, St. Louis shouldn’t have to try to replace Wainwright.
Logistically, pitchers have no reason to hit, even if it is funny.
It’s time for the MLB to throw tradition to the wind, catch up with the times and get the DH in both leagues.
Brian Pellerin is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from Kenner, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Pellerin_TDR.