Rolled Bats

[outathm]

When you go to the Bats forum one of the ads at the top is for a company that will roll/shave your bat for you. How ironic that a company helping players skirt the rules is advertising on an officiating site.

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by outathm

When you go to the Bats forum one of the ads at the top is for a company that will roll/shave your bat for you. How ironic that a company helping players skirt the rules is advertising on an officiating site.

Capitalism at it's finest. Heaven forbid that an available penny be missed.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by outathm

When you go to the Bats forum one of the ads at the top is for a company that will roll/shave your bat for you. How ironic that a company helping players skirt the rules is advertising on an officiating site.

And your problem with some dope spending money to advertise on a site which will produce little to no business is?

[kfrisbee]

Originally Posted by outathm

When you go to the Bats forum one of the ads at the top is for a company that will roll/shave your bat for you. How ironic that a company helping players skirt the rules is advertising on an officiating site.

forgive me for being a dolt sometimes, but I didn't know that it was illegal to "roll" a bat.

I am really glad that I didn't get DD's bat rolled like she wanted!

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by kfrisbee

forgive me for being a dolt sometimes, but I didn't know that it was illegal to "roll" a bat.

I am really glad that I didn't get DD's bat rolled like she wanted!

So, your DD is a cheater?

Doing anything to accelerate a bat's break-in is against the rules, at least, ASA.

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

So, your DD is a cheater?

Doing anything to accelerate a bat's break-in is against the rules, at least, ASA.

And in USSSA. They've actually sued bat doctors and to settle, those busted docs had to sign something to the effect they would become inspectors of doctored bats and refrain from doctoring bats in the future at the risk of being prosecuted for fraud (supposedly signing the document and then going against it can be prosecuted as fraud under federal law).

Now that being said, it reminds me of the doctor scene out of one of that comedy spy movie Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd were in.

[kfrisbee]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

So, your DD is a cheater?

Doing anything to accelerate a bat's break-in is against the rules, at least, ASA.

Funny.

13yo DD got her first composite bat for fall season and asked if it could be rolled. I had never heard that before and said no, that it could be considered altering the bat.

Good thing I didn't cave!

[Welpe]

For what it's worth, the Google ads are context sensitive based upon the content of the page you're currently on. A humorous example of this are threads in the basketball forum that talk about "shots". You'll see advertisements for firearms training.

The point is, I doubt that the company paid to advertise specifically on this site.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Welpe

For what it's worth, the Google ads are context sensitive based upon the content of the page you're currently on. A humorous example of this are threads in the basketball forum that talk about "shots". You'll see advertisements for firearms training.

The point is, I doubt that the company paid to advertise specifically on this site.

Agree. But I do like the fact that they are paying and this is what they are getting for their ill-gotten gains.

[SC Ump]

Originally Posted by outathm

...that will shave your bat for you.

It reminds me of something out of Major League. How can you expect Cerrano to hit a curve with a hairy bat?