[Miles the Slasher]

“Actually the way they design the metal bats these days, it is a safety hazard.”

I manage an 11u travel team. I agree. I do think the rules should be changed regarding the materials use to construct bats.

[Jim Noble]

I've just started up LLB again after a fourteen year gap, with six and nine year old daughters.

I've recycled a lot of equipment, but I needed a new kid bat.

So, I went to Dick's Sporting Goods, and what I found amazed me.

I'm sure I don't need to tell you, but the place is filled with carbon-fiber and other high-tech bats, for children, all $100+ and some >$300.

This is nuts.

If they went back to wood, they could go back to real baseballs instead of RIF-balls, because no ten-year old can kill someone with a line drive off of a 28+ ounce wood bat.