I hope the NL doesn't get a DH, it just makes managers jobs easier by putting a fat slob who can't play defense into the lineup.
Yeah, because ALL DH's in the MLB are fat slobs. You make it sound as though they are barely MLB-worthy. Please.
Having the pitcher bat and making double switches makes NL managers jobs a lot harder. Charlie Manuel even said himself that managing in the NL is tougher because of the adjustment of learning to double switch and having the pitcher bat.
Please. It's not "harder", just "different" because the NL is making you bat a specialist in the order for some reason. And double switches aren't hard. They're only made to seem hard by half-wit managers that are incapable of comprehending anything that's not happening exactly three feet in front of their face.
Besides, people seem to think that double switches just disappear in the AL because of the DH. They don't. What about defensive replacements later in games? Injuries? Platoon matchups?
People have fallen in love with pitchers batting simply because it has been happening for a long time, and they try to distort the importance of "strategy" in feeble and ignorant attempts to justify it. There's no point in making the pitchers bat. None. They are almost always automatic outs in the lineup, and suppress the thing that turned baseball into a multi-billion dollar business in the late 80's and early 90's: scoring runs.