krw wrote:
In article ,
says...
Puckdropper wrote:
Mike O. wrote in
:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:45:47 -0700 (PDT), p4o2
wrote:
So many people (players, umpires, fans) get hit with parts of
broken
bats that it seems like a simple solution exists.
The simple solution is already used by little leagues and
colleges.
Aluminum. I've seen them dented but I've never seen one break.
Besides if they get all of the steroids and HGH out of baseball
(not
likely), MLB is going to need to find a way to get all the
scrawny
180 pound ball players to hit the ball out of the park.
That loud PING is not quite the same though.
Mike O.
The problem with Al is that of line drives. Since more energy is
transfered, a line drive may well break bones or kill someone.
That's
one reason why they're not allowed in MLB.
So a twenty percent difference in energy is going to make the
difference between no injury and broken bones or death? Might
interest you to know that in the past ten years 2/3 of the people
who
have died from being struck by a batted ball were struck by balls
hit
from a _wooden_ bat.
Yes. It's not just the energy but the pitcher's reaction time. A
fastball off the bat would hit the pitcher before he could possibly
defend himself. Pitchers are expensive.
Uh huh. Ten percent makes the difference between reacting and not
reacting? If the margin is that close then they need to increase the
distance to the plate.
NCAA changed the rules a long time ago to limit the ball speed
coming
out of an aluminum bat.
The 55MPH speed limit was abolished years ago. ;-)
Traffic laws have zip all to do with bat design.
This whole aluminum bat controversy is something that grandstanding
politicians use to appear to be Doing Something and has no real
relation to safety. Of course there's a "ban aluminum bats"
movement, but take _anything_ and there's some bunch of loons who
think it should be banned.
You're nutz. Politicians have nothing to do (drugs being the
obvious exception) with MLB rules.
No, they have to do with the laws in several states that prohibit the
use of aluminum bats.
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