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"!! 🤣🤣🤣 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:
Much ado about nothing.
Why did you include the fake photo and not the actual one?
The photo is fake.
The photo is fake.
“The Natural”
like positioning the label of the bat in a prime position for maximum home runs,
= = =
The label is to dindicate the direction of the grain.
Label up is grain paralled to the ground, maximum strength direction for the wood.
Grain perp. to the ground sets the bat up for fracture.
“That pic is more on the bazooka rocket, RPG end of the bat world....”
Pic is fake
I remember when the NHL introduced curved hockey sticks. It seemed crazy at the time.
I also remember when the NBA would call travelling for running with the ball without dribbling the ball. Now you can run the entire length of the court without dribbling and dunk the ball. Two points.
Fake picture
It’s not illegal. The bats have already been OK’d by the MLB. They DO meet the specifications.
Look at the article.............It’s a joke pic............
While I do not like it, I must ask however - did any one complain when bat handles were made skinny from what old school bat handles were? It moved the mass up the bat and gave (some say) a whip effect from the skinny handle.
The only complaints I’ve heard is there are more broken bats
“Note that the pic is an exaggeration...........”
I donated to the Babylon Bee before they became famous....
And, they weren’t even playing in Milwaukee.
NASCAR said "HEY you can't do that!" He said it was not in the rules
The next week they had a rule that the fuel line could only be X number of feet.
Smokey then proceeded to use that X length of radiator hose for his fuel line with reducers at either end, and it gave him even more extra fuel LOL
NASCAR rules now cover every tiny detail of the cars and the racing sucks.
According to MLB the bats are legal.
MLB’s bat regulations are fairly lax. The “torpedo” bats remain legal so long as they follow MLB Rule 3.02 which states: “The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.”
Had it been any other team beside the Yankees no one would complain................
Hey! It’s legal!.......................
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