Dangers of using aluminum bats. Another fucked up court case.
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http://www.wlky.com/cnn-news/21467637/detail.html
The panel ruled in favor of a family who sued the company for not warning users about the dangers of using aluminum bats.
The verdict means Hillerich and Bradsby is on the hook for $850,000. The company said it's not sure what it means beyond that because the jury also decided there was nothing wrong with the product.
I'm gonna go to america and sue everything. Hay , putting a fork in my eye made me blind and not able to do my work properly, WARNING LABEL NEEDED!
The panel ruled in favor of a family who sued the company for not warning users about the dangers of using aluminum bats.
The verdict means Hillerich and Bradsby is on the hook for $850,000. The company said it's not sure what it means beyond that because the jury also decided there was nothing wrong with the product.
I'm gonna go to america and sue everything. Hay , putting a fork in my eye made me blind and not able to do my work properly, WARNING LABEL NEEDED!
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so, this brandon guy threw a pitch, some batter hit the ball with an alluminum bat, and the ball hit brandon on the head so hard it killed him?
so it's the bats fault?
if he had used a wooden bat it would've phased through him like a ghost?
what exactly are the odds of hitting the pitching in the head in the first place?
I'm not going to generalize the stupidity of the american people when it comes to lawsuits because i'm sure it would have been the same in most of the "western" world, but when are the aliens gonna come and wipe us out already???
Not knowing what, exactly? That solid objects like baseballs, when traveling at speeds of upwards of eighty miles an hour, can be dangerous if said object collides with someone's head? I feel bad for her that she lost her son, but she says this like they're playing ball in Basra, using landmines as bases.
Not taking anything away from the family for there loss but if you are so quick to profit from the death of your own child then there is something wrong with you. If your child dies, you greave. And ScudzAlmighty, the rest of the western world is nothing like that. Possibly the UK to a smaller extent but otherwise its an American cultural thing. Its nothing to bash or be ashamed of other countries have their own quirks.
Make baseballs out of marshmellows - Being hit in the head with a giant marshmellow would probably be ace.
Next!
That was my thought. How are they not suing the baseball manufacturers instead. Or whoever decided to use hard balls rather than soft ones.
I have used both wood and metal on various levels of play from high school to collegiate and semi pro and I prefer wood.
Being a third baseman in an aluminum league is one of the craziest places on the field. I have had balls hit at me so hard that I hardly had time to even get up out of my stance and make an attempt on the ball.
Baseball can be a dangerous sport. Even a hitter can be killed by a wild pitch when guys are throwing 90+ mph.
BUT people need to understand that wooden bats can be just as dangerous. Broken bats as well as hard hit balls. I had a good friends career cut short because of a broken bat that hit him while he was in the on deck circle. It came at him so fast he didn't have time to move and ended up damaging his eye and creating a pretty nasty scar on his face.
It's tragic and I feel sorry for this families loss but you can't put blame on the bat. Why not the ball? Hitter? League? Coach? Field? School?
Personally I think colleges should switch to wood. It is one of the main reasons so many players get drafted and stay in the minors for so long because they can't hit with wood or don't have that same power they had with the metal bats.
Tony Gwynn coach of San Diego State makes his team hit with wood and so did my coach in college. It makes you a better hitter in the end because you choose your pitches and you learn to make better contact.
I don't see how this is the bats fault, it should totally be the league's fault for using aluminum bats - weak. I know you can't use them in the major leagues, but isn't aluminum bats standard for lower leagues?
So many people always want to put blame on things when accidents and tragedies happen. Person shoots up school. Lets sue the gun makers and musicians the kids listened to. WHAT? NO!
PLAY BALL
Oh...wait...
What a farce.
Deaths in sports is not uncommon. There is a certain risk that you know clearly and you sign a waiver when you play because you know the risks. I knew everytime I put on my football pads or my baseball uniform that there was a risk I was taking.
We can't put blame on everything when there is an accident like this. It's just ridiculous and we don't need warning labels on everything. Oh look a cliff. I'm gonna jump off because there isn't a warning label to tell me not to. Seriously?
Like I stated earlier. I feel sorry for the family but I don't think Louisville Slugger is responsible.
whoa whoa, there exist another mass of land outside america?? i call bullshit.
Faulty leg manufacturing obviously.......sue his parents, or better yet GOD!!!!
Unfortunate for sure, but 850 K? where do people get these numbers ? why not 1.22 mil ? or 150k ? and this money has to come from somewhere.... All of us are already having a hard time enough economy-wise without folks like this demanding xyz sums to ease their greiving process ??
Angry haz is angry!
STEEEEEEEEE-RIKE!
I don't know why they stopped at suing the bat makers...with the same logic they could sue everyone and everything in the univers/es.
I vote for suing the god particle, at least that may be proven to exist soon enough (unless it *is* sabotaging itself from the future as the newspapers would have us believe)
The trouble with being judged by a jury of your peers is that it assumes your peers have an ounce of common sense. The bat company should have protested that the jury consisted of too many humans, and too few rational robots.
When the 3 people you're pitching toward all have protective head gear maybe you should assume there is some kind of risk to your head while playing said sport...
Obviously the guy wasn't that great of a pitcher, the guy got a hit... /rimshot
Or too few aluminum bats.
It's alarming that when anything goes wrong people get sued more and more these days. So if this is the law if you use a public phone and end up getting an ear infection could you could sue the phone company?
I'm very sorry about the kid dying, but everything else about the situation is infuriating.
kat - if they played it 'your' way the'yd be trying to hit balls rolling across the ground :P
Went down hard then recovered, it hit my inner thigh and a little bit of the shaft/balls so not that bad. Good thing he was using a wooden bat, eh?
Yes! there exist a fence to the south, and a red hat to the north. Beyond that the world falls off O_O