Fellows, I don't doubt that home runs are down in college and California this past year, I've seen some stats.
I also don't doubt that there is a bit of difference between BESR and BBCOR.
But I come from a time when everybody hit with wood. And guess what, there were still home runs hit. Epic shots of legendary proportions.
All this blaming the bats is, in my opinion, silly. You don't need to change the way you hit - if you were doing it right to begin with. Just keep hitting it, it will all work out.
Truth is everybody should have been taking BP with wood anyway and we should have been hitting with wood all along.
This fascination with home runs is ridiculous. The Game was meant to be played inside the park.
Most of this BBCOR stuff is mental anyway.
BESR bats were bats, not Magic Wands from some Tibetan mountain. It isn't going to change back. Stop whinging about the bats and enjoy the most exciting plays in baseball - triples, squeeze plays, etc.
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