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Lawsuit Asks Major League Baseball To Put Up Safety Nets All The Way To Foul Poles
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| July 13, 2015
Posted on 07/13/2015 3:35:59 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: Nuc 1.1
Just get rid of the maple bats. Those are the ones that explode into shards.
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posted on
07/13/2015 4:57:35 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deo Vindice)
To: DeepInTheHeartOfTexas
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:04:14 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(Deo Vindice)
To: colorado tanker
This is going to far.
I disagree, it isn't going to far. However, I think it may be going to
o far.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:16:35 PM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: SMGFan
How about people who don’t want to accept the risk save themselves some money and sit half-way up in the upper grandstand, or somewhere else that’s safer?
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:16:46 PM PDT
by
grania
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To: SMGFan
Here's your sign:
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:31:43 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: grania
How about people who dont want to accept the risk save themselves some money and sit half-way up in the upper grandstand, or somewhere else thats safer to stare at their smartphones and text message their girlfriends for 9 innings?Fixed it.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:36:54 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: SMGFan
Or put down your damned I-phone and pay attention the game.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:54:41 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: SMGFan
How many have been killed with this problem vs how many were killed driving to the ball parks. ban cars and keep your PC ideas to yourself, leave baseball Alone!!!
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:56:38 PM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else)
To: SMGFan
The pussification of America continues apace.
To: SMGFan
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:18:18 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: SMGFan
Take your glove and stay alert.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:29:25 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: P.O.E.
Richie visited her in the hospital after the game, and they became life-long friends.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:43:32 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: SMGFan
Hockey faced a similar problem several years ago: a young girl sitting up behind the goal was killed by a puck. In response, the NHL installed netting up behind the two goal-lines--but not down the sidelines. The Commissioner predicted, "After three minutes the fans won't even see it anymore."
MLB's Commissioner has said they're studying it. Obviously, netting 330' down to each foul pole will never happen.
If I were MLB, I would videotape tonight's Home Run Derby winner (since Giancarlo Stanton has a broken hand) standing publicly at home plate later and throwing a bat as far as he can toward the stands; then I'd install sloped netting to that distance in each ballpark. It's instant lawsuit protection and public relations genius, as visibly doing everything reasonable. If you're not sitting behind netting, you've assumed the risk yourself.
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:04:10 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: P.O.E.
I knew someone who was hit by Richie Zisk's broken bat once in the late 1970s. I think he broke a tooth. All part of the game and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think he was on the 3rd base side of Three Rivers.
why stop at a net? Why not plexiglass walls like they have in hockey?
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posted on
07/14/2015 8:44:29 AM PDT
by
tenger
(He'll do what he wants because who's gonna stop him?)
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