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Posted on 6/2/13 at 8:59 pm to Tigerholic
i think a little bit of umpphhh should be added to the bats or balls, not much...
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:09 pm to Moustache
It has been discussed numerous times recently, but there has been much speculation that the ball will be changed next year. The ball that has been discussed has been the minor league baseball. it's wound tighter than a college baseball and has lower seams.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:10 pm to TheDoc
I know I'm one of the few but personally I like the way the game has gone with the new bats makes so many of the other parts of the game more important. The bats could be have a little more pop and I wouldn't mind but to me more of the games are interesting now compared to the borderline slow pitch softball games that used to happen regularly
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:17 pm to Moustache
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Not really.
Yes really.
You took a position that 95% of fans would agree with (that they went too far in deadening the bats) and tried to make it into the fact that baseball is now been remade to seeing eye singles and errors.
That's simply not the case and it hurts your argument.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:44 pm to moneyg
I'm just hoping they switch to the pro ball.
It doesn't need a ton of pop off the bat, just barely more tha. It has now.
Hopefully the lower seems will let well hot balls carry the distance.
That should put the game where it aught to be.
As long as the best high school players are going pro and skipping college ball, I do t want to hear shite about wooden bats.
When our lineup is full of Bregmans, then let the wooden bat people have some input.
It doesn't need a ton of pop off the bat, just barely more tha. It has now.
Hopefully the lower seems will let well hot balls carry the distance.
That should put the game where it aught to be.
As long as the best high school players are going pro and skipping college ball, I do t want to hear shite about wooden bats.
When our lineup is full of Bregmans, then let the wooden bat people have some input.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:46 pm to Moustache
It would great to have 70 or 80ish HR's as a team, happy medium
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:50 pm to Moustache
It certainly isn't as exciting as it use to be. The wanting to be like the pros is a very thin excuse since hardly any of these kids will ever play pro ball. Let pro ball take care of their own needs.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:54 pm to Oyster
MLB averages just barely over 1 homer a game.
(I crunched the numbers once, but don't remember exatly)
When college ball approaches those numbers they make changes to slow it down.
(I crunched the numbers once, but don't remember exatly)
When college ball approaches those numbers they make changes to slow it down.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 9:59 pm to upgrade
Power hitting is part of baseball. Allow it to happen.
I feel like we've over corrected.
The game doesn't have to be cartoonish with bomb after bomb. But I feel very strongly that the game has changed for the worse in the dead bat era. There are very few hitters now that can change a game with one swing. I think that diminishes the game.
I feel like we've over corrected.
The game doesn't have to be cartoonish with bomb after bomb. But I feel very strongly that the game has changed for the worse in the dead bat era. There are very few hitters now that can change a game with one swing. I think that diminishes the game.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:05 pm to DollaChoppa
These bats suck, hell even wood has a sweet spot. These things a shite all the way arounds.
This post was edited on 6/2/13 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:21 pm to Moustache
Not me.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:23 pm to Moustache
I like the sound of these bats better. Huge college kids pinging aluminum bats is one of the reasons the sport didn't go mainstream. Now college baseball is growing rapidly.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:25 pm to upgrade
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I'm just hoping they switch to the pro ball.
That could negatively affect pitching.
The right answer is to change the bats...but it won't happen.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:27 pm to Moustache
Personally I think people love home runs. That's why MLB overlooked steroids. Why not give the bats some more pop? Players are going to have to get used to wood either way, and scouts know what stuff makes up a good pitcher not just ERA.
I would be for 90's bats if I wasn't worried they would punch a hole in some kid.
I would be for 90's bats if I wasn't worried they would punch a hole in some kid.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:28 pm to moneyg
The pros use the pro ball obviously.
The bats are close to wood.
If the low seems hurt pitching then so be it.
The bats are close to wood.
If the low seems hurt pitching then so be it.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:31 pm to Moustache
Here is a study done on the bat changes. BBCOR bats may be safer, but excitement is lagging. They went to far with the re-design.
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:41 pm to Moustache
Same feeling watching HS now too! HRs few and far between. 
Posted on 6/2/13 at 10:41 pm to sicboy
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It's a little frustrating, but considering safety was one of the big reasons they went to them, I can live with it.
Nothing happened from 09 to the last change to warrant a change.
Posted on 6/3/13 at 10:06 am to sicboy
Don't think for a moment that this was about player safety, sure that was the excuse that the NCAA pushed but in reality it was all about $. The best way for them to get money was to grow the fan base as quickly as possible. Well, many of your old-standards, like LSU, already had an established fan base and couldn't really grow much faster than they already have. So, the other way to grow the base was to get other, smaller, weaker teams to start having a good season here and there. By lowering the total averages, and thus the total number of runs, they have allowed weaker and less talented teams to preform against better teams. In the good ole days, one error from a good team against a not-so-good team didn't mean much because you were ahead 14-3, but now, when the game is 3-1, a good team making one error or a weaker team getting on a semi-hot streak can spell disaster to the better team. I highly doubt a team like, I don't know, say Stony Brook, could have held a candle to LSU's '97 team.
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