SAY WHAT??????..............
Posted on 03/26/2010 5:52:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WARNING: Playing baseball is increasingly hazardous to kids' health.
That's the message from a California lawmaker who is proposing legislation to impose a three-year moratorium on the use of metal or composite bats in high school baseball games.
Assemblyman Jared Huffman is pushing for a crackdown after Gunnar Sandberg, 16, was critically injured while pitching for Marin Catholic High School when he was struck in the head March 11 by a line drive from a player using a metal bat.
The San Rafael Democrat called the incident a wake-up call to protect pitchers from laser-like drives hit by "performance-enhancing metal bats" while they stand virtually unprotected less than 60 feet from home plate after releasing the ball.
Bat manufacturers and other opponents of a moratorium counter that claims of increased danger are nonsense.
"I think some people think that (bat makers) are like mad scientists in a laboratory trying to figure out how to make a potent, titanium, ultrasensitive bat – and that's not the case," said Mike May, spokesman for the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the industry's trade group.
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SAY WHAT??????..............
A wooden bat will not hurt at all, no siree. Maybe we should ban all sports, people (and especially their feelings!) get hurt all the time :)
Thought they gave up wood bats for the metal ones, how about nerf bats for the little darlings.
I’m not much one for the Gov regulating things, but it’s only a matter of time before some kid gets Charlie Browned and dies.
I can’t believe schools are still using these things.
Give me the crack of a wooden bat any day. I just hate the PING of metal.
Anybody here remember the old Bombats. Loved them. Liberals are destroying our country.
What is the second safest school sport?
Answer: Shooting.
What is the safest school sport?
Answer: Chess.
Conclusion: All schools MUST GET SHOOTING TEAMS.
Do it for the safety of all our children!
What is the second safest school sport?
Answer: Shooting.
What is the safest school sport?
Answer: Chess.
Conclusion: All schools MUST GET SHOOTING TEAMS.
Do it for the safety of all our children!
Sorry for the double post.
If you walk out your door you are taking a risk.
Maybe we should just ban real sports all together, instead we can have change it all over to the Wii. We can have Wii Little League, Wii Varsity and JV.
BTW, my son is a pitcher and don’t think when a line drive comes back at him that the hair on the back of my neck doesn’t stand straight up and I breathe a sigh of relief. Not just him but any player I am watching.
It bears repeating.
My husband now has dentures because he caught a line drive hit by my son in the mouth while practicing in the batting cages. Kept telling my son he was late on his swing, next thing you know he was picking his teeth up off of the ground.
Another coach we know was throwing batting practice before a game, standing behind the L-screen and a kid hit a line drive and the managed to find the ONE hole in the screen and it hit the coach in the family jewels. 24 hrs. later he was getting one of his friends surgically removed. He doesn’t coach anymore.
And liberals want to reduce risk in people's lives. Liberals will attempt to make "Heaven on Earth" by solving each and every of life's problems. With big gov't, of course, thereby creating "Hell on Earth."
If that is all he doesn't do anymore, he is fortunate! (God bless him for spending time with our youth.)
Can you imagine what Babe Ruth would have done with an aluminum bat? For God’s sake he hit a fungo 447 feet with one made of wood.
Maybe they should develop some sort of faceguard/helmut for pitchers. I recall Kaz Ishii getting taken out by a line drive off his forehead from a wooden bat when he was with the L.A. Dodgers.
They should just ban the baseballs. Or just play nerf whiffleball.
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