A baseball item from Staple and some Boland blogrotica
Forgive me for veering off from football yet again (yeah, like we never do anyway), but Staple wrote a very informative piece on the increased use of maple bats among Major League players. 
Seems more and more players prefer using maple over the traditional ash bats. And there might be a connection between the increased frequency of said bats breaking and becoming potentially hazardous to players and fans alike.
(I do have one more baseball item I'd like to get to. I learned about it on Father's Day when I gathered with my own dad and a couple of my brothers, including Mickey, who was named after Mickey Mantle. Anyway, the item is a little gross, so I'll figure out a way of addressing the situation in a semi-mature fashion ... on another far less mature note, check out Boland's latest blogrotica on the Jets' blog. Thanks to a tip from a fellow blogger, Boland has discovered the motherlode of hot cheerleader pics.)
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You make me sound so shallow...
Maple bats suck.....Period (I started using them a few years back...for a while).
They ARE prettier, they feel lighter than standard Ash bats, it seems like you get a little more pop on the ball (nothing compared to aluminum), but their life expectancy is far shorter.
Now, I am the first person who will unequivocally state that "bad swings" break bats, not defective wood.
But ANYTHING hit off the hands or the end of a maple bat will break it.
Not so with Ash.
My league chased a "maple bat salesman" off of our blog boards with a ringing cacophony of "your bats suck".
Just my opinion.
You call that "gross" ?
As your (much younger but without the Tom Crean hair) brother I feel compelled to bring you closer to the views of the real world
I would wager that most of your sophisticated readers already know the little baseball tidbit we discussed this weekend.
I think your readers would LIKE to hear about the underside of sports. We want to know what happens when the cameras are off. How about telling us about the following, for example:
- Rookie Hazing, including, but not limited to
-The shave
-The baby elephant walk
-The atomic sit-up
- Locker room chatter
- Dating habits
- Practical Jokes
c'mon, give it up!
hey, can you get me tickets to the MLB all-star game?
signed,
bob's brother mick
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