Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

[Phil316]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

Enough to offset the "sizeable donation"?

Who knows what they donated.

[Mark17]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

Enough to offset the "sizeable donation"?

[Phil316]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

Breast cancer awareness loses because now the players who would have used a pink max bat or Sam bat used their normal bat. That would bring BCA less money at MLB auctions would it not?

[Mark17]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

So who gets hurt? The charity gets a sizeable donation, enough players are out there with pink bats to call attention to the cause, and H&B, a company I personally love, receives some advertising.

Honestly, some people seem to get upset over almost anything these days. Does it really matter to breast cancer awareness if not every single player uses a pink bat? I look at the situation and see it as win-win-win all around.

-Mark

[R. C. Walker]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

According to the article:

"To get that designation, Hillerich & Bradsby, the parent company of Louisville Slugger, made what one source deemed "a sizable donation" to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the league's charitable partner. The terms of the donation included other manufacturers being able to make pink bats but not stamp the bat with their logos."

Sounds to me MLB is partially to blame as well as the other bat brands riding the Pink Bat advertisement train on Louisville Sluggers dime.

[Phil316]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

So basically Louisville Slugger only wanted people to see their brand being used on Mother's Day. They paid for the banning of all other logos on pink bats for Mother's Day.

That is why I noticed a crap load of players NOT using pink bats today.

[mdube16]

Re: Louisville Slugger is Ridiculous

I read this and really think LVS is getting bad PR for no reason. They paid for an exclusive corporate sponsorship with the money being donated to charity. The other companies can still do pink bats with restrictions but the ignored the rules which they knew and caused a stink.

[HawaiiSportsNut]

Talk about corporate greed.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb-whiffs-by-banning-competitors--pink-bats-on-mother-s-day-013725273.html?utm_content=buffer6cab1&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=Buffer