Topic: Parents of brain-damaged boy sue metal bat manufacturer
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| 36inchesOfsolidAshPosts: 39Location: Join Date: April 1, 2008 8:43 PMSend Message |  May 20, 2008 6:09 PMhttp://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jUbYSwlZLXBsu72aa-7NuYShuHjAD90OP31O0 | ||
| electricutionerPosts: 68Location: Join Date: January 11, 2008 2:28 PMSend Message | May 20, 2008 6:46 PM How many more kids have to be injured , or killed before changes are made ? Why do we let the business endanger our children ? TIME TO WRITE OUR LOCAL POLITICIANS . LET'S NOT LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!! | ||
| baseball232Posts: 132Location: Join Date: April 22, 2008 12:29 PMSend Message | May 20, 2008 6:55 PM
It's amazing more children don't get injured. The bats are like weapons. | ||
| electricutionerPosts: 68Location: Join Date: January 11, 2008 2:28 PMSend Message | May 20, 2008 7:43 PM As a parent of a senior baseball player in high school , I'm glad that next year in college he'll be using a wood bat. He hit many balls back up the middle that nearly took the head off the pitchers shoulders , and as a pitcher / catcher had many smashed back at him. In 1 game , as a pitcher , he was hit in the cup by a batted ball and the cup split. I always feared that shot back to the mound. Then when he reached 9 th grade the team needed a catcher. Now as things turned out he was recruited by a provisional D2 and will be using wood bats. Alot less stress for me !
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| ledzepCatcher1968Posts: 17Location: Join Date: May 17, 2008 7:58 PMSend Message | May 21, 2008 8:24 AM I think its terrible that this sort of thing happens on the baseball field, but accidents are unavoidable. Banning metal bats may have prevented this particular accident, but as soon as someone got hurt by a shard of broken wood, we would all say that the decision to switch from metal was a bad one My sympathy goes out to this family, but to sue the bat manufacturer is wrong. Any other metal bat swung the same way would have yielded the same results. unfortunately, accidents happen, and to prove that metal bats are not the only thing that causes tragedy, MLB implemented a rule that all base coaches have to wear helmets because Mike Coolbaugh, a minor league 3rd base coach was struck by a line drive off of a wooden bat, and killed.
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| baseba11playerPosts: 14Location: Join Date: April 9, 2008 6:23 PMSend Message | May 23, 2008 4:09 PM | ||
| ledzepCatcher1968Posts: 17Location: Join Date: May 17, 2008 7:58 PMSend Message | May 23, 2008 6:41 PM baseba11player wrote:
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Besides the fact of people getting hurt, metal bats bring a different ball game to the field. Especially with the bats that are made now you can check swing and get solid hits. With wood bats kids cant get away with closing there eyes, swinging early and hitting bloopers over the shortstop. Wood bats also creates the game it should be played and you might as well use wood now if in the majors or minors you use wood. i agree completely, i was just pointing out that there are dangers to both metal and wood. personally i enjoy playing with wood bats more so than with metal bats.
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| c0nnell187Posts: 38Location: Join Date: April 1, 2008 10:41 PMSend Message | May 24, 2008 1:30 PM They have to switch to wood sooner or later its getting rediculous. It wasnt so bad but now they have bats like the comp where a ground ball to the chest will kill you. I was in a game where the ump called time after a kid hit a homerun and got the other ump and they both checked the bat but nothing was wrong with it and it wasnt tampered in anyway... its getting rediculous. | ||
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| paaaleeezePosts: 225Location: Join Date: March 20, 2008 10:24 PMSend Message | July 23, 2008 11:25 PM c0nnell187 wrote:
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seriously, how could they tell without pulling the end cap off. composite bats can be "tuned" without anyone but the most serious player/coach not being able to tell the differenceThey have to switch to wood sooner or later its getting rediculous. It wasnt so bad but now they have bats like the comp where a ground ball to the chest will kill you. I was in a game where the ump called time after a kid hit a homerun and got the other ump and they both checked the bat but nothing was wrong with it and it wasnt tampered in anyway... its getting rediculous. |
