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Originally Posted by Eastshire
First off, before you ever defend anything called Big Brother you need to read 1984. I garauntee you will never use the term Big Brother as part of the defense of anything again.
Second, you are not the last of the last because you clearly are going to go before me.
Third, the issue is not so much who is dictiating what as whether or not it makes any sense. A batting helmet runs about $35. You are going to require every team to buy 2 more. That's $70 a team. Now how many teams are there in America? There's well over 100 in my league alone. We're talking hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars and in the end the coach still dies because he was hit in the neck. It doesn't make any sense to mandate it because its too expensive for too little return.
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If we were to apply the same logic to all tragedies that have occurred on a baseball or softball field we would have all players and coaches wearing heart guards and face guards as well as helmets. Take for instance the young 12 year old softball player that was recently killed by a thrown ball that hit her in the head during a routine practice. Should we now call out for all fielders to be forced to wear a helmet?
What about the young players who've been killed after getting hit in the chest with a batted ball, pitchers most noteably. Should we now mandate heart guard protectors for all players?
Where would it end is the real question.
Tim.