This just arrived. Anything new?

[PeteBooth]

[QUOTE=greymule]June 12, 2007

DON’T TAKE MY BAT AWAY

Hopefully the metal bat will "go away"

This argument reminds of the days when baseball / football stadiums went from grass to artifical turf.

Eventually most if not all went back to grass the way the game was meant to be played.

The same holds true for metal vs. wood. The game was meant for wood bats.

Also, if a college student does want to give the PROS a shot why use metal? He will be at a disadvantage when he goes to A, AA or Triple A ball where wood is used.

All I can say is this.

On average, wood bat games are quicker than metal bat games. One of the advantages of the game played by metal is the DP balls (provided the fielder can field it) Since the ball comes at you quicker you have a better chance of completing the DP.

On the "flip side"
you get those "cheap" otherwise known as the metal bat base hit when a player gets jammed.

Personally I hope all leagues go back to wood. Let's wait and see

Pete Booth

[GarthB]

Anything new?

Let's see....whining, misleading claims, more whining...

Nope, nothing new.

[btdt]

"Further, the government should not be involved in deciding what kind of equipment is used to play a game. The decision should be made by the sport's own governing body."

If you know it or not, the government is involved regulating everything from the grass seed to to the fence surrounding the baseball field. Any bureaucrat or politician worth his/her salt is on constant look out for new ways or things to regulation to increase job securiety and/or protect the public from themselves because they are too stupid to know what is dangourous and what isn't. The government always knows better than parents. The government knows this because they know parents aren't smart enough to make thier own decisions, let alone decide what is safe for thier children.

Wait til they mandate foam rubber bats for the good of "the children"

[LakeErieUmp]

Foam rubber is not environmentally friendly and can harm the child's self esteem.

[Ump29]

In Canada a lot of the upper levels are going to wood again. Some of the levels using metal have limits on the length-weight differential. I like it !!