EG> Most DHs would be first basemen in the NL ala John Kruk.
Paul Molitor has said many times that without the DH he wouldn't be
playing baseball anymore.
In the NL, you put your best 9 on the field.  In the AL, you put your
best 10.  How can that not be an advantage?  If the DH were a better
defensive player than one of the starters, wouldn't he be on the
field?
 Are teams deliberately hurting themselves defensively in the AL? I
don't think so.  If you move the DH to 1st, in most cases you weaken
the defensive strength of the team.  
Another advantage to the DH is that it allows injured players to
continue playing.  An injury that makes a regular position impossible
can still allow a player to hit.  That's a significant advantage.  
EG> Maybe because there's NO real "strategy" in the NL. Come on, when
EG> pitchers come up to bat with a man on base, it's like punting on 4th
EG> down in the NFL: bunt, bunt, bunt. AL pitchers have to put up with 9
EG> REAL bats during a game while NL pitchers only have to deal with 8. 
But NL pitchers have to think about their at bat, while AL pitchers
just rest their arms.  And some NL pitchers actually can hit a
baseball.  Living in an AL town I don't see many NL games, but the few
games I saw this year - mostly the Expos - included a number of hits -
not bunts - by pitchers.  I don't know what the stats on this are but
I suspect they would be surprising.
One advantage of the NL is shorter games.  Pitching changes are made
when the team is at bat.  You don't have those lengthy trips to the
mound and the warmup pitches which for some strange reason we give to
a guy who has been warming up for the last 15 minutes.  On average, NL
games are shorter than AL games and I suspect most fans - and all
broadcasters - appreciate that.  Those 3 and 3 1/2 hour games are just
too long.
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