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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-jimlitke-031307&prov=ap&type=lgns

I love this. As a true fan of baseball, I hate the ping made when an aluminum bat strikes the ball. I need to hear the crack of a bat that can only come from a Louisville Slugger. I wish the NCAA would follow suit here.

Can you still use metal bats to straighten out people who accidentally broke into the wrong car?

I hate metal bats as well.....this makes me happy. :)

Finally. That metal Batman has caused enough damage.
Ban betal Bats!

If everybody hates these metal bats then why do any of the players actually use them?

If everybody hates these metal bats then why do any of the players actually use them?

Because you usually hit further with an aluminum bat.

"Yes, I know the statistics say I'm wrong. So they must be unreliable. What? No, I don't have any other statistics. What? No, I don't have any other reason to believe those statistics are unreliable other than they say I'm wrong. What exactly are you getting at?"

:rolleyes:

I clicked on this thread expecting a wonderfully loopy story about robotic chiroptera.

I am disappointed :(

I don't think that it's the city's place to regulate it. The PSAL (Public School Atheletic League) could make a rule banning metal bats, but I don't see why creating a law banning them is necessary. That being said, baseball is better with wooden bats, if you have the money to replace them every time they break.

I don't think that it's the city's place to regulate it. The PSAL (Public School Atheletic League) could make a rule banning metal bats, but I don't see why creating a law banning them is necessary. That being said, baseball is better with wooden bats, if you have the money to replace them every time they break.

In my experience of playing baseball, replacing wooden bats was cheaper than buying the $300 cheap (cheap in terms of unfair advantage) graphite bats.

I read that as "bans metal BANDS" and was going to go on a tirade.

Now I have lots of pent up anger and no release...

I need a baseball bat.

In my experience of playing baseball, replacing wooden bats was cheaper than buying the $300 cheap (cheap in terms of unfair advantage) graphite bats.

The most expensive bat I ever used was around a hundred dollars, and my whole Little League team chipped in to buy it, and we all used it. I think that keeping up a stock of wooden bats would be more expensive.
And from your article: Technically, he's right, although MLB approved the use of some composite materials in bats in some Class-A leagues five years ago for the same reason colleges and high schools began allowing them in the mid-1970s: to save money.

This sounds like it could be a problem for Goths

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-jimlitke-031307&prov=ap&type=lgns

I love this. As a true fan of baseball, I hate the ping made when an aluminum bat strikes the ball. I need to hear the crack of a bat that can only come from a Louisville Slugger. I wish the NCAA would follow suit here.

That ping is the sound of pure evil.

I don't think that it's the city's place to regulate it. The PSAL (Public School Atheletic League) could make a rule banning metal bats, but I don't see why creating a law banning them is necessary. That being said, baseball is better with wooden bats, if you have the money to replace them every time they break.

And if you hit someone hard enough with a wooden bat to break it, you can use what's left as a sort of pointy thing to stab the next person.

When metal bats are outlawed, only outlaws will have metal bats.

Wow, is baseball being overrun by traditionalists or something?

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-jimlitke-031307&prov=ap&type=lgns

I love this. As a true fan of baseball, I hate the ping made when an aluminum bat strikes the ball. I need to hear the crack of a bat that can only come from a Louisville Slugger. I wish the NCAA would follow suit here.

Evil! The metal ping is wonderful! Or at least it was when I played baseball, ages ago.

As for the bats, what's wrong with them? They're a good self-defense weapon. Of course I prefer my quarterstaff, but that's just me.

Girls' Sport! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounders)

As for the costs, Louisville Slugger has a composite/wood bat that has every characteristic of a normal wood bat except that it doesn't break.

"But when the protection of student-athletes is left to people who are in bed with the metal bat companies," Oddo resumed, "someone has to do something."

this isnt actually about the game itself, its about "protecting" student athletes from baseballs hit "too hard"

the composite of the bat has less to do with ball speed than the actual force of swinging the bat well. so i dont see how this actually does anything to help...

Doesn't the City have anything better to do than fiddle with baseball?