What’s the number, 60% of players love ‘em. You can’t just go ripping the bats away from them. Superstition meltdowns.

I’ve said this before, but I think players shouldn’t reuse their bats until death. When Bonds started turning in his bats after every at-bat for self-promotion, he broke far fewer bats on the field.

Also, no more sanding off 1/8th inch of the bat. It’s just plain physics.

kiss ash goodbye.

Is spend some money to research a bat made of composite material that acts just like a wood bat and then outlaw wood bats and save some trees. I’m actually pretty sure they already have bats that meet these specs. I posted a link to them a while back, but I don’t have it saved anywhere. I think this solution works for all.

I like that ping – unlike these guys.

Regarding nets – just make them out of fishing line filament and you won’t even see them.

I say if you throw your bat after a swing, you’re out.

These are big boys who get paid an awful lot – being responsible enough to hold on to your bat should be part of the game.

Its cheap and disintegrates upon hitting anything.

If that doesnt work, just make it into a, um, one of these.

I have YET to see from any reputable source the results of independent testing verifying that ash bats or maple bats splinter at differing rates. What seems to me to be indisputable is that bat weights have plummeted, and the way this has been accomplished is to reduce the diameter of the bat handle and/or to extend it much further up the length of the bat. A longer, possibly narrower handle will be intrinsically more fragile, maple or ash.

I expected him to start by saying, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”