New bat stamps

Your BESR bats are legal in 2011... after that the new lingo will be BBCOR.
Since Ben Franklin is on the hundred dollar bill, this is all about the Benjamins baby.

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Is this true? and if so, thats one hell of a ploy the bat companies got going on to make some serious bank.

Convince the I$HA to switch to wood and it won't be a problem. Wood bats are considerably cheaper and the BBCOR is about making a metal bat act more like wood (not completely). Just go wood and be done with it!

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:

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Is this true? and if so, thats one hell of a ploy the bat companies got going on to make some serious bank.

Convince the I$HA to switch to wood and it won't be a problem. Wood bats are considerably cheaper and the BBCOR is about making a metal bat act more like wood (not completely). Just go wood and be done with it!

Amen to that!

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Originally posted by Bulldog 19:

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Is this true? and if so, thats one hell of a ploy the bat companies got going on to make some serious bank.

Convince the I$HA to switch to wood and it won't be a problem. Wood bats are considerably cheaper and the BBCOR is about making a metal bat act more like wood (not completely). Just go wood and be done with it!

Well at least the kids who just got there $300.00 bats will get one more year out of them before there good for nothing... but the cage.

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Originally posted by Azlan:
] Well at least the kids who just got there $300.00 bats will get one more year out of them before there good for nothing... but the cage.

I am led to believe that is why they gave the effective date of 2012....most of the BESR bats would be dead or relegated to cage use....

O'boy, legal/illegal bats coming in 2012. Another headache for us!

no headache for us umpires closer...we will inspect equipment the same as before......-3 with a BBCOR stamp...no dents cracks or flat spots and we move on ...

So im guessing here before to long your going to be able to get a heck of a deal on BESR stamped bats. hahaha!!!! Im sure not soon enough for it to matter though.

They will still be good in SrLL and travel ball. This was a three year warning so it isn't something that just got sprung on the coaches.

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Originally posted by Michael S. Taylor:
They will still be good in SrLL and travel ball. This was a three year warning so it isn't something that just got sprung on the coaches.

Well it might be old news to you but this is the first year we have heard of it. Im sure im not alone here ether. Plus I dont know to many kids in Sr league that would choose to use a -3 over a -5 or on up.

SrLL is required to use -3 BESR rated bats. Not true for JrLL but they do in Srs and above. If this is the first you are hearing of it then you coaching staff or AD has done you a disservice.

Are the new BBCOR stamps going to be coming out on bats soon? I had to buy a -3 bat for my son this year and I didn't see anything but BESR. If you have a 6th/7th grader moving up to the M/S team next spring, will there be BBCOR bats available so they last more than one season?

They should be out soon, I am contacting some of th bat manufacturers to find out what their game plan is. If your son is playing middle school he should be able to use them in summer ball even if he can't use it at school.
Welcome to the board, I umpire some of the De teams that come to Md to play.

Thanks for the welcome and I did buy the bat this year knowing that the change was coming and he may only get two years out of it. I figured that with a big growth spurt due between now (6th grade) and 2012 (8th grade), he'd need a new bat again anyways.

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Originally posted by Michael S. Taylor:

Welcome to the board, I umpire some of the De teams that come to Md to play.

Michael,

You ever go to "Sports at the Beach?" If yes, how are the facilities there? Do you ever umpire games for Doug Fleetwood at Salisbury?

Old Fox

I have umpired Doug since his son played AL which has been quite a few years ago. Doug is fine as long as you know what you are doing and know how to handle coaches. Don't show weakness or look unsure, he will eat you alive.
I have worked at SATB but not a lot. It is a nice facility with some good umpires. There are some marginal ones too but that is expected in travel ball.
Some of the middle schools come down and play some of the private schools and the few public schools that have middle school. Unfortunately not many public schools have them.