Nanny Guvmint strikes again ~ baseball bats (Santa Clara, Arnold: how much, houses, high schools)

[Curmudgeon]

Is nothing sacred? Given the economy, does the Legislature really need to get involved in the issue of metal baseball bats in high school games? Whatever happened to the good old days of skinned knees, stubbed toes and sometimes even broken bones as rites of passage for active children? Californians don't need to protect children from themselves. They need to protect themselves from the Legislature!

Two-Year Ban on Metal Bats in High School Baseball Advances at californiascapitol.com

[hoffdano]

It just continues, right? Santa Clara county banned toys in fast food meals. For some reason the county needs to step in because mom/dad doesn't know how to tell their kids they aren't getting a happy meal?

[Snort]

When a maple bat shatters and a splinter embeds itself in someone's arm, we'll be seeing a ban on wooden bats and the introduction of Nerf baseball.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Is nothing sacred? Given the economy, does the Legislature really need to get involved in the issue of metal baseball bats in high school games? Whatever happened to the good old days of skinned knees, stubbed toes and sometimes even broken bones as rites of passage for active children? Californians don't need to protect children from themselves. They need to protect themselves from the Legislature!

Two-Year Ban on Metal Bats in High School Baseball Advances at californiascapitol.com

don't you know we need the govenment to control our lives from conception to death? They will tell us what to eat, when to eat, what kind of paint to use, where our kids can play, require a certain bedtime for them. Then when the kids grow up they will be advised on where they can live, how much money they can have and when we reach a certain age, the government will decide what medical care we can have.

Shouldn't games like hopscotch be outlawed? Kids can lose their balance and skin their knees, and maybe drama in high schools should be discontinued cause Suzie didn't get the lead role and is damaged for life. The grading system is another thing that needs to go, all kids should be told they are exceptional and can achieve anything they want, whether they can or are willing to work for it shouldn't matter.

Now, do you want to know how I really feel?

Nita

[mateo45]

Wooden bats have been around since the late 1800's, and they're what the Pros use even today. Besides, isn't preserving "tradition" what Conserve-atives are supposed to be all about? Or does all that always go out the window whenever the "Darwinian" subject of "competitive" advantage comes up?

[Ceece]

Seems like a non issue to me. Nobody but the metal bat companies will complain.

And regardles of "the economy", the world keeps spinning and other things can and will be addressed. That's a stupid excuse for not doing anything dontcha think?

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by mateo45

Wooden bats have been around since the late 1800's, and they're what the Pros use even today. Besides, isn't preserving "tradition" what Conserve-atives are supposed to be all about? Or does all that always go out the window whenever the "Darwinian" subject of "competitive" advantage comes up?

Preserving traditions like what -- roasting our meat over open fires, outhouses with Sears catalogs for TP, no electricity? Be real, if you can. At issue is not the material used for the bats, it's government once again being overly intrusive. But I guess people like you (guessing you're a liberal) like government telling them what they can and cannot do, down to the smallest detail. It saves you from the draconian chores of actually having to think for yourself, be an individual, exercise some independence and ::::horror of horrors:::: take responsibility for your own decisions.

[californio sur]

Originally Posted by nmnita

don't you know we need the govenment to control our lives from conception to death? They will tell us what to eat, when to eat, what kind of paint to use, where our kids can play, require a certain bedtime for them. Then when the kids grow up they will be advised on where they can live, how much money they can have and when we reach a certain age, the government will decide what medical care we can have.

Shouldn't games like hopscotch be outlawed? Kids can lose their balance and skin their knees, and maybe drama in high schools should be discontinued cause Suzie didn't get the lead role and is damaged for life. The grading system is another thing that needs to go, all kids should be told they are exceptional and can achieve anything they want, whether they can or are willing to work for it shouldn't matter.

Now, do you want to know how I really feel?

Nita

I disagree with you and Curmudgeon most of the time but like your sense of humor! I know how much harder a ball hit with a metal bat goes compared to a wooden bat but overall the danger to baseball players isn't that much different. If the legislature bans metal bats Schwarzenegger may end up vetoing it anyway. Arnold recently vetoed the law forbidding smoking at all state beaches. There is a balance of power between the state legislature and the governor.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by californio sur

There is a balance of power between the state legislature and the governor.

Only on a good day!

[sms1967]

Aluminum bats are being outlawed because of the number of serious injuries attributed to the high rate of speed... it really has nothing to do with government. You might feel differently if it was your kid that suffered a head injury.

Have you nothing better to cry about? Conversely, wooden bats were pushed aside, in favor of aluminum, because of the costs associated with broken bats.