The War Goes On

TR, I would be interested in your view on wood vs metal. My son can hit well with both but I do know several smaller guys who struggle with wood.

It seems to me that hitting with wood could cause many players to sit or give up the game - is that good or bad - I dont have the experience to make that call.

catcher09

My opinion will be biased as I am old and like the game played with wood---it has nothing to do with safety as I don't want to get into that aspect---I just like the game played with wood because it is a different game

I also believe that a hitter is a hitter even if he has a broomstick in his hands

That young guy on the left...what a hitter he was! What was his name? Bert something or other. Bert Chim? Bert ChimChim? Bert ChimChimCheree...that's it!

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Uh, oh...

Does this mean that I made a mistake buying those 14 new laths?...

...And Mr. Woodman, about that massive order of Hardwood 4x4's....uhhhh...sorry...

44
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I dont know if this is true or not but it seems to me that metal is hurting the college game with TV revenues. When you have scores of 15-14 and number of hits in the 20s,30s and more TV cannot predict how long a game can go. I think the key is to have the colleges change to wood and then the HS and LL will follow.

TR
I am an old fashion also, wood bat, and pitchers hitting got it be back. Then, the game will be again full of strategies, and the defensive game, and the stealing will be back.

Who was it, Cheryl Crowe that told us we should be using exactly one ply of toilet paper? These dems have me confused. I use one ply of TP to save a forest but go to wood bats and chop down another.

And trust me, if we use one ply of TP I guarantee you water usage will go up commensurately, if you get my drift. Then I'll have to feel guilty about that.

Go metal!

Bum,
If you wrap your wood bats in exactly 1 ply of TP, the bats will last longer. Also the reduced stress from not having to figure out how to pay for 'Lil Johnnie's new $350 rocket launcher will lessen your thirst and conserve water. Hope this helps with the drift.

TR
Why did you used the word WAR in this post, now some REP...CANS want to bombing the thread with politicals comments. I always believed that they were the old fashion "conservatives".

I'll bet theres one poster on here thats gotwood on their mind.

My single biggest problem with metal in college ball is that the games go on FOREVER ....

You have a 7PM start ... the players have been at the field since 4PM for batting practice, etc ... they may have come straight from class ... then the game lasts 4 hours ... then they have to find something, somewhere to eat ... and finally, they get to head to the library to finish their studies.

Bring back the 2:30 college game and get some reason back on campus. Last time I checked, they had to stay academically eligible too !!!!

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Originally posted by Racab:
TR
Why did you used the word WAR in this post, now some REP...CANS want to bombing the thread with politicals comments. I always believed that they were the old fashion "conservatives".

Trust me, Racab, the Republicans confuse me equally well. Just trying to make light of silly laws. I used a wood bat when I was a kid.. everyone else used metal. But it was my choice. At the college level, though, I would like it mandated more for traditional reasons. 14-12 games seem wrong.

44...don't worry...those billets were all mistakenly cut to 28"...they might make a good table leg some of the time for those occasional tables!

3up-3down...yup.

H3...I'll second that...let's get some reason back on campus...on the baseball field and elsewhere.

One of the few baseball related advantages of living up here in the frozen northeast is the opportunity to see high quality college baseball played with wood bats in the Northeast 10. What a great game. Also, four years ago, Massachusetts played a season with wood bats. That was far and away the best season of high school ball I've witnessed. Pitching, defense and strategy moved to the forefront and I am certain that the kids learned more about the game that year than in their other three years of HS ball combined.

However, I don't even want to tell you how much money we spent on bats that year...

I think one gets a truer measure of how good a hitter a player is when he hits with wood. It's no secret how forgiving metal bats are. A player who hits the ball on the very small "sweet spot" of a wood bat consistently should be considered a very talented hitter.

Son is RHP w/ armside run on the ball. For some reason I prefer wood.

Some of us old-guys remember when metal bats first came out. We thought of them as a roughly 5 percent solution. In fact, I used wood over metal (by choice) in all my summer leagues through high school, because I felt the negatives of metal outweighed the positives.

As the technology changed and they got into the minus-7 and minus-10 area, gap power became home-run power and solid contact became rockets. And this was over-30 ball. Pitching was not for the timid.

The minus-3 rules have helped, but there still are way too many metal-bat base hits (handles and ends) that are outs with wood. Situational hitting and location pitching aren't rewarded the way they should be.

Note none of these deal with science, just observation. I'm OK with metal in the recreational game. But I do believe wood should be used at all advanced levels, starting with HS varsity.

As an aside: gotwood4sale showed that picture before that reminded me of something that happened this fall.

We were at my college son's place dropping off food (he's a senior) and he was channel flipping. Mary Poppins was on the Disney Channel, and it was Steppin' Time. He grabs a broomstick and starts singing and doing part of the dance routine; he knows the words by heart, having watched it too many times as a child (his favorite part of the movie).

His housemates -- two other baseball players and three softball players -- were dumbstruck. My wife and I were almost in tears laughing at the scene.

When he finally stopped, all my wife could say to the housemates was: "You better hope Chitty Chitty Bang Bang isn't next."

I'd venture to guess your son's dugout is never lacking for entertainment. He knows how to stay loose for sure. Good for him and his teammates!