Wood bats VS. Aluminum

[Sluggo]

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Please? For the love of Pete?

[xpress34]

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AND I have known/know many females that play softball in high school and college and I respect them as athletes (A few of them can throw harded than I ever could ) but to say that softball and baseball are on the same level is insanity

You ever see Jennie Finch throw???

They had her on an episode of Sports Science to test the impact of a MLB fastball (I don't remember the pitcher - I was looking at Jennie) versus Jennie's fast pitch.

The MLB guy recorded pretty astounding numbers on the pressure plate.

But Jennie - not to be outdone - SHATTERED the Pressure Plate on her 1st Pitch!!!

There's some MLB pitchers I'd rather face than her!!!

- Chris

[chakes89]

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What sexism?

Softball and Baseball are 2 completely different things and there is a reason that guys play one and girls play the other

In my opinion, If you can do something drunk it's not a sport (Softball)

AND I have known/know many females that play softball in high school and college and I respect them as athletes (A few of them can throw harder than I ever could ) but to say that softball and baseball are on the same level is insanity

DAMN IT!

Edit for another freaking typo

NO EDIT is pissing me off

[chakes89]

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Of whom? I didn't ruin anything. I merely would like for the sexism to stop and for Vintage Deputy and frazn however you spell it to spot baiting me...

What sexism?

Softball and Baseball are 2 completely different things and there is a reason that guys play one and girls play the other

In my opinion, If you can do something drunk it's not a sport (Softball)

AND I have known/know many females that play softball in high school and college and I respect them as athletes (A few of them can throw harded than I ever could ) but to say that softball and baseball are on the same level is insanity

[Sluggo]

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Enough with the genetics and WNBA references...

What's the earliest reference anyone remembers wrt aluminum vs. wood bats? I'd say 1989.

I remember a story probably around '89 or '90 involving then-Pittsburgh Pirate Bobby Bonilla playing some IF during batting practice. RJ Reynolds grabbed an aluminum bat and hit a few pitches for the heck of it. Reynolds sent a lazer Bonilla's way, Bonilla tried to field it, and the liner BUSTED THE WEBBING out of Bobby's glove!!

[xpress34]

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That expansion is what adds the extra velocity to the ball when it comes off the bat - particularly a softball.

Sorry all... that should have read "particularly a baseball".

Just wanted to clarify...

- Chris

[chakes89]

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Don't you just love the "No Edit" feature

I feel like an idiot when I leave out a word or mis-spell something

[frikativ54]

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Of whom? I didn't ruin anything. I merely would like for the sexism to stop and for Vintage Deputy and frazn however you spell it to spot baiting me...

that should say "stop"

[frikativ54]

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This thread would have a good discussion topic had someone not ruined it with their nonsense

I do believe a banning is in order

Of whom? I didn't ruin anything. I merely would like for the sexism to stop and for Vintage Deputy and frazn however you spell it to spot baiting me...

[xpress34]

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WAIT.......I mean it was an ALUMINUM bat that splintered!!!

Squeeze -

Thank you for adding more MLB knowledge to my brain... I don't think I've even heard that about Steve Yeager...

- Chris

[xpress34]

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So - maybe I'm not experienced with aluminum vs. wood. But I don't understand a LOT about a LOT of different things. Care to clarify here or in email?

the main thing with aluminum bats is the 'Trampoline Effect' as someone said earlier. Technically speaking, Aluminum bats are 'Tubes'. That is they are hollow inside - not solid like a wooden bat.

That 'hollow' core is what allows an aluminum bat to compress and expand - hence the 'trampoline effect' when it makes contact with a ball.

A wooden bat being solid, it doesn't compress and expand - if the wood is soft, it may compress, but it will not expand.

That expansion is what adds the extra velocity to the ball when it comes off the bat - particularly a softball.

As Newton's 3rd Law of Physics states - "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

That said, a pitcher throws a ball to Batter A with a wood bat - the simply physics are the BALL (not the bat) compresses and expands at the moment of impact sending the ball the opposite direction from which it came with almost the same velocity at which it came in.

Pitcher throws a ball to Batter B with an aluminum bat - BOTH the BALL and the BAT Compress and expand exerting an EXTRA force on the ball when it goes back the opposite direction therefore INCREASING the Velocity above what it was when it was coming to the plate.

I hope that makes more sense to you.

And - as a traditionalist, if you let the Pros use Aluminum, I can say here without the slightest doubt that you would have to expand the outfield at EVERY MLB park because the HR #'s would be INSANE - and therefore destroy the sanctity of the Record Books even more than Roids have already done.

- Chris

[mariner_gamers]

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We have a winner! One of my favorite movies...

Me too!!!

[chakes89]

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This thread would have been a good discussion topic had someone not ruined it with their nonsense

I do believe a banning is in order

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[chakes89]

Re: Wood bats VS. Aluminum

This thread would have a good discussion topic had someone not ruined it with their nonsense

I do believe a banning is in order

[Vintagedeputy]

Re: Wood bats VS. Aluminum

WOLVERINES!!!!!!

We have a winner! One of my favorite movies...