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(Bat) Glove to love you, baby - stemming the broken-bat epidemic
It's Interview Week at AZ SnakePit! Still transcribing the one with Daron and Mark - we have another off-day Monday, so that seems a good point for it - but as a follow up to our previous piece on the Bat Glove, we spoke to Steve Rauso of The Bat Glove, Inc. He is one of the men behind developing a...
(Don't) Release the Bats
If you've watched any Diamondbacks broadcast in the past few years, you've no doubt heard Mark Grace discuss the issue of broken bats, and the potential dangers they pose to players and spectators. To be honest, most of us probably have heard it so often that we tune it out, but that's probably a...
An unscientific solution to the "Maple Bat Problem"
There is a problem in Baseball and instead of solving the problem, Baseball is using stupidity under the guise of scientific study to try the solve the problem. Baseball, the sport that eschews technology wherever it possibily can, is attempting to turn the corner and use technology to solve a...
Why not just ban maple bats?
The short answer is because Major League Baseball likes to study things to death and never actually make a decision. They have a chance right now to be proactive and fix a problem before a player or fan is seriously hurt or killed but they are going to wait until someone is hurt because it will...
Tuesday Morning Rockplie:
Apparently, someone threw a no-hitter last night. Eh . . . the Rockies won their third game in a row! The Rocky Mountain News has a good picture of Q starting the double play right before he fell hard to the ground. But Q's a gamer, as we mentioned last night, and stayed in the game. As Q said...
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