Show us your Pink Bats

[OaklandAsFan]

Re: Show us your Pink Bats

biggest thing to remember here is that this season the umps have been told to speed up the games and players are supposed to have bats ready to go right from the rack (as we saw a player get into an argument over earlier this season after a cracked bat) so it isn't unrealistic that Daric grabbed both of them and tarred em up during BP so they would both be good and ready to go for the game with no problems. I think Daric at least was good enough to be honest about the fact that he wasn't sure, he could have just told us yeah my mom has it and left it alone but he answered honestly which IMHO is pretty cool.

[brianborsch]

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I will let you know as soon as I get it. Daric only had 1 at bat and the hit would have contacted the other side of the barrell from what was pictured in the auction(this is based off of Daric's hitting characteristics and from watching the video and looking at what side of the bat the ball made contact with). There seems to be a slight amount of pine tar on the handle (which is a characteristic of Barton. His pine tar should only be on the handle area.) So we shall see. He must have used both though at some time as OaklandAsfan said he couldn't tell which was which AND mlb.com listed this bat as game used which could include BP. It just sucks that there is no clarity there. Oh and their communication system sucks the big whanker too. I hate them for that.

[whatupyos]

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I realize what OaklandA'sFan said. I'm sure Daric didn't see either of the bats other then when he was batting, so he probably never saw them after he hit the HR; so technically he doesn't know which went where. My guess would be they were grabbed up by the team, one was given to his mom, one went to auction. From the MLB auction picture it looked like the bat had zero use on it. So if you get the bat and its clean as a whistle, it wasn't the HR bat...unless of course he used it during BP, which I can't see a player using both pink bats during BP, but its possible.

[brianborsch]

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But someone took the bat before he could sort it out, so they may have sent his mom the wrong bat. OaklandAsfan is saying Daric said he doesn't know which one made it to where.

Brian B

[whatupyos]

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I might be able to be of some help on the Daric Barton bat. He pitch hit in the 9th and hit a 2-run HR. So if it doesn't show use, its not a gamer. I went to last year's Mother's Day game in Oakland and saw Bobby Crosby hit a HR with a pink bat. I wanted to win it in the auction so I looked for it, but the one they auctioned off was not game used. Had no pine tar, as Bobby uses a lot of pine tar, and there were no marks on the bat. However this year, his bat had lots of use on it. So most likely, since Daric hit a HR that HR bat would have gone to his mother, as thats what I'd have done being that he didn't play a whole game.

[OaklandAsFan]

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I guess that is pretty good odds. Thanks for checking OaklandA'sfan! Do you know or can your mother check to see if he even used the other bat? If he didn't use the other bat then I would be able to tell when I got it as the HR bat should have a ball mark and possibly a seam impression whereas the unused one (if he indeed did not use the other) would be completely clean. Let me know if you can get anymore detail. I really appreciate this!!!

she is on her way home now (she flies up for all the weekend home games and sells the rest of her tickets for the season) I would assume that he used both of them or he himself would have been able to tell which bat he had

[CampWest]

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Sorry to hear about the Butler bat; I hope you find it again. It is stories like these which make me glad that I am of the "bid early and bid often" philosophy. I would rather pay more and be guaranteed the victory than chance being outbid in the final seconds as a sniper.

Nice ... Same thing happened to me. I also was trying to bid on the Butler bat last week, first they were having technical difficulties and the site wouldnt let me logon. I wasted 45minutes trying to logon and couldnt get in, that was early in the morning... I wasnt stalling or waiting for last minute. I was going to try again around lunch, but I had some unexpected high priority meetings sprout up and missed about 5 hours of time and never got back to a computer before the auction ended.

[brianborsch]

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I guess that is pretty good odds. Thanks for checking OaklandA'sfan! Do you know or can your mother check to see if he even used the other bat? If he didn't use the other bat then I would be able to tell when I got it as the HR bat should have a ball mark and possibly a seam impression whereas the unused one (if he indeed did not use the other) would be completely clean. Let me know if you can get anymore detail. I really appreciate this!!!

[OaklandAsFan]

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hey Brian I just got off the phone with my mother, She spoke to Daric today after bp and he said he honestly does not know which bat you have. He said that someone grabbed one of the bats before he had a chance to do anything, one bat went to his mother and the other one went to the auction but he does not know which one he actually used to hit the HR. Its 50/50 that yours is the one he used.

[jrhrlh]

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After checking the Pirates news archives, Freddy Sanchez was the only Pirate player to use a pink bat in the make-up game. All players had bats available in the dugout to use but he was the only one to do so. So,how can MLB certify any others as GU. Some I have seen do not even have a mark on them.

[metsbats]

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David,nice Delgado bat w/photo match. Now what do we do to get you the jersey? The quest continues....
(P.S. If Steiner still had the Mets contract it would be an easier chore but an expensive one.)

Interesting Robert that the folks at Amazing Memorabilia have not put the Mother's Day jerseys for sale at least on the Mets site. I just got a rep t work with last week and that may be one of my first questions to him. I'll let you know what i find out.

David

[Swoboda4]

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David,nice Delgado bat w/photo match. Now what do we do to get you the jersey? The quest continues....
(P.S. If Steiner still had the Mets contract it would be an easier chore but an expensive one.)

[metsbats]

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I won Carlos Delgado's 2008 Pink bat. This will replace the Endy Chavez I passed on to Swoboda4.

Here's a photo of the bat and a photo match.

-David

[jshortt]

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Josh,I was trying to get a hold of you just to make sure you knew that the Kepp bat may not have been used. Glad you already caught that. Do you know Kepp personally or just a fan?

AWA, thanks for the head's up. And sorry about inflating the price of that Edwin bat. When I realized it was you bidding, I backed off. Who'd have thought there would be a bidding war for an EE bat, haha?

With Kepp, it's a bit of both. Started as a fan, but after a while, it got past that. He actually heckled me from 2nd base during BP a few nights ago for wearing a Volquez jersey instead of his. People were looking at me like "what the eff is going on?"

-Josh

[AWA85]

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Josh,I was trying to get a hold of you just to make sure you knew that the Kepp bat may not have been used. Glad you already caught that. Do you know Kepp personally or just a fan?