Posted on 03/31/2025 10:31:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Thursday, on Opening Day, the Yankees hit two home runs against the Brewers in a 4-2 victory. Saturday, in the second game of the series, they hit nine homers in a 20-9 walloping of the Brew Crew, three of them coming on the first three Brewers' pitches.
Sunday, they hit four more, tying the record for most home runs hit in the first three games of a season (15).
And sure, they were playing the Brewers, but you gotta think something is going on here, right?
Well..
Yes, they redesigned the bat to put more wood where the bat makes contact with the ball.
And it's completely legal!
But of course people are whining about it -- it's the Yankees, so why wouldn't they?
Even Dave Portnoy got in on the action (wearing a Red Sox hat, of course).
"Unbiased rant"!! š¤£š¤£š¤£ To be fair, it's Portnoy's Barstool Sports up there mocking fans for crying about the bats.
So fans are going to be mad at these bats because it's the Yankees, other teams will then adjust their bats to match the greatness of these new "torpedo bats" -- turning baseball into a much more entertaining sport -- and then in about ten months we'll have a ban on the bats.
It'll be fun while it lasts! Also, I thought this was hilarious, so I'm leaving it here:
But Mike Judge hit 3 in one game WITHOUT the bat, and refuses to use it.
Since nobody studies STEM subjects anymore, save for Asian kids, all that bat is (legally) doing is moving the center of percussion inward.
And it was a common design at the start of Babe Ruth era.
I had a Louisville Slugger Babe Ruth bat as a kid, and it looked like the bottle bat (what we called them).
And it was heavy, much more than the near fungo sticks they use today.
Eugenio Suarez of the Diamondbacks also has 4 homeruns like Judge. Neither uses the torpedo bats.
At least 8 non-Yankee MLB players are also using the torpedo bats:
It seems rot me that a specially-designed bat, with a revolutionary new shape, is most certainly “experimental”, and the entire point of getting MLB approval first is so that every other team has a chance to check it out and decide if they would like to use it as well... but since MLB isn’t actually a sport (It has been proven that a coin-flip league is actually more competitive), and it isn’t actually a fair competition (NYY in 41 of the last 105 AL pennants? It’s all just money), it really down’s matter in the end.
Look at the photo and then look at the calendar.
The photo is a joke exaggeration....................
Yes, that first photo is fake, the bats they use do comply.
Elly De La Cruz picked one up yesterday.
5 4 4 7 0 0 .438 1.346
Two 420 HRs and nothing off the bat that wasnāt 106mph +
In Great American, this will be a farce.
Just FYI:
There are a number of stories going around that large numbers of ‘torpedo bats’ have been delivered to MLB players in the last week or so.
We should compare the entire season with last season at the end of the season to see if there is any difference.................
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