Post by Jake Seven on May 18, 2008 2:46:35 GMT -5
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These are obviously grief stricken parents, not thinking with a clear head. They are not plotting out a course of action appropriate, or one that makes sense. Yes, what happened to their son sucks. It really does suck. But it's a minimal statistic in the grand scheme of things.
Seventeen deaths since 1971? Okay thats less than one every two years people! How many Little Leaguers take the field every year? Millions possibly. Out of multiple millions Little Leaguers every two years, there's one fatality and seven severe disabilitating injuries. (Not to mention college students and recreational adult leagues who also use metal bats) The odds against that are astronomical to claim metal bats are unsafe for children, or anyone, to use!
Not to mention, what's the alternative? Wooden bats? Please show me how wooden bats are safer. Oh the ball comes off softer and slower because the wood absorbs the friction of the incoming pitch.
Okay, and I say that when a baseball made of cork and leather strikes a wooden bat at 95 mph, there's a good chance that bat will crack or splinter if direct contact is made. (It happens every day MULTIPLE times per MLB game) And when this bat splinters or cracks, the batter is in danger, the catcher, the umpire, and any fan or fielder (or coach, or observing team mate or player, etc etc) who just so happens to be in the way of this dislodged flying wooden debris. How is THAT safer, than a ball striking a player causing a disabilitating injury or death once every two years?
I'm just a realist I guess. I'll take the astronomical statistic, over the greater numbers of injuries that would occur from a splintered bat. (See: multiple fans being injured from a broken bat going into stands, or the Clemens/Piazza incident in 2000) The chances are greater you get struck by lightening. Twice. In the same day. Than dieing or being disabilitated from a batted ball during a baseball game.
These parents are just under a great amount of stress, and extraordinarily unlucky to be in the situation they're in. And I feel for them. There's no way around saying what happen doesn't suck. But to blame the bat, or opt for changes that will only further the issue is uncalled for.
These are obviously grief stricken parents, not thinking with a clear head. They are not plotting out a course of action appropriate, or one that makes sense. Yes, what happened to their son sucks. It really does suck. But it's a minimal statistic in the grand scheme of things.
Seventeen deaths since 1971? Okay thats less than one every two years people! How many Little Leaguers take the field every year? Millions possibly. Out of multiple millions Little Leaguers every two years, there's one fatality and seven severe disabilitating injuries. (Not to mention college students and recreational adult leagues who also use metal bats) The odds against that are astronomical to claim metal bats are unsafe for children, or anyone, to use!
Not to mention, what's the alternative? Wooden bats? Please show me how wooden bats are safer. Oh the ball comes off softer and slower because the wood absorbs the friction of the incoming pitch.
Okay, and I say that when a baseball made of cork and leather strikes a wooden bat at 95 mph, there's a good chance that bat will crack or splinter if direct contact is made. (It happens every day MULTIPLE times per MLB game) And when this bat splinters or cracks, the batter is in danger, the catcher, the umpire, and any fan or fielder (or coach, or observing team mate or player, etc etc) who just so happens to be in the way of this dislodged flying wooden debris. How is THAT safer, than a ball striking a player causing a disabilitating injury or death once every two years?
I'm just a realist I guess. I'll take the astronomical statistic, over the greater numbers of injuries that would occur from a splintered bat. (See: multiple fans being injured from a broken bat going into stands, or the Clemens/Piazza incident in 2000) The chances are greater you get struck by lightening. Twice. In the same day. Than dieing or being disabilitated from a batted ball during a baseball game.
These parents are just under a great amount of stress, and extraordinarily unlucky to be in the situation they're in. And I feel for them. There's no way around saying what happen doesn't suck. But to blame the bat, or opt for changes that will only further the issue is uncalled for.
