Batman's New Bat (Company)

[Crash Course]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/sports/7939995.htm

"I believe in an old saying that says pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered," Mattingly said. "So we don't want to jump right into the slop and try to get too fat too fast."


What a priceless quote.

[Elmo]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/sports/7939995.htm



What a priceless quote.


I wonder about you and the pigs and slop contingent there Steve - I think we need your position on biscuits and gravy, scrapple and chitlins here.....

(if you can get a handle on it :D )

[KCBOOMER]

It is a cute quote. Meaningless, but cute.

[Crash Course]

Anyone have thoughts about the bat model itself?

[Skip]

Wells and Mattingly designed the handle. It features two flat angles along with a rounded side, forces the bat to stay in the hitter's fingertips. I'm not getting this. It sounds like there had to be a definite corner/point in the grip the way I read this. Not somthing I want my hands or fingers on when any reasonably fast pitch hits the bat. What am I not seeing correctly?

[Crash Course]

That's the way I see it too.
The grip is incredibly important to hitting - but, more so, as Lau taught, to avoid white knuckles. This grip may actually encourage a batter to hold that bat tighter - and get those bad white knuckles.

[cubfan33]

The handle is ... very tough to describe. It's almost teardrop shaped. Supposedly, it forces the grip to LOOSEN, not tighten, but if tinkering with a swing is bad, altering a grip is going to be a nightmare. Add in that the bat isn't yet "approved for use" and this one's not going to show up in games for a while.

[Crash Course]

Unless, of course, someone does a Sammy and "forgets" and grabs the wrong bat from the rack.. ;)