Realist- you forgot to voice your displeasure that companies like Easton and Wilson actually attempt to launch new products and/or improve their products each year and then market them to parents and players - all for a sinister word that was just introduced to America - "profit". The nerve of people/companies to risk investment, manufacture or develop produc or Intellectual Property and distribute their goods and services based on supply and demand. I would go on longer but someone from PG is at my door physically demanding that I pay them immediately or my boys are forbidden to participate in youth sports. They said I have no choice in the matter. Or it might be the Girl Scouts with those damn tag-alongs. I know they have a secret gov't approved ingredient in them that causes additctions far worse than opiates.