BATS

they look like old models from like 2005

I am listening to Ott's show now, and the guy he is interviewing is speculating that Texas has some juiced bats from Louisville Slugger. He is saying that Easton and Louisville Slugger are in competition with each other so for their bats to look good they wanted to provide them with some new bats for the tournament. That is just one guys speculation.

Patrick Coogan was not accusing anyone of anything, however, he brought up the point that LSU is an Easton team and Texas is a Louisville Slugger team. Those two are the pepsi and coca-cola of the bat industry. Easton had represented the CWS champion for about 15 straight years until the early 2000's and I think Louisville Slugger teams have won most of the recent ones.

His point was that there is big money involved in this industry, and both bat companies want to say that there bats won the CWS. He had a thought in the back of his mind that the Louisville Slugger company gave Texas some supped up bats because they haven't been hitting HR's all year. I know they have a big park, but they don't have that many fly balls to the warning track at their field, and why don't they crush em out on the road?

Both teams are given brand new bats before the series because it gives the bat companies great exposure. I know when I was a kid, I would go out in June and by the bat I saw on tv.

Good post on what Coogan said. In addition, Ott asked why Easton isn't doing the same and Coogan sort of said that Louisville has better technology at the moment. Strange comment.

This is the first i've heard of this bat discussion but i find it very interesting. Especially looking at texas's total HR's this year vs their CWS HR total. It's very very strange to have that kind of power all of a sudden.

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In addition, Ott asked why Easton isn't doing the same and Coogan sort of said that Louisville has better technology at the moment. Strange comment.

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I'm certain that LSU has brand new bats in Omaha (donated by Easton). I thought Ott's question was whether Easton could be jacking their bats up for the Tigers. Coogan didn't really answer because I don't think that he really believes that the Louisville Slugger bats for Texas are juiced.

The balls do seem to be exploding off of Texas' bats much more than LSU's. It just seems very odd that every time a team with half the homeruns of the other tags a ball well it hardly ever falls short of the warning track, when the team known more for HRs seem to crush them to the warning track at best.

Won't accuse but it wouldn't surprise me with the way this CWS has gone.

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So now we think they are cheating?? Wow. Are we this pathetic?

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No, we didnt say anything, we are just repeating what was said by Coogan who is merely speculating due to the competition between the two bat companies.

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No, we didnt say anything, we are just repeating what was said by Coogan who is merely speculating.

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I was including Coogan in the "we".

I thought all bats had to be checked prior to the start of the game??

I figured it was nothing. The guy in work came in talking about this big scandel that was on Jimmy Ott.