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November 04, 2009 – Comments (3)

http://www.billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_092384f6-c3eb-11de-8110-001cc4c03286.html

 I don't know who's heard about this story, but what basically happened was that a 12 year old little league pitcher was hit by a baseball in 2003 and died of heart failure.  Apparently, his loving parents somehow associated this freak accident with the metal bats used by almost all little league's around the country. 

So, rather than appealing for their district's little league to switch to the use of wooden bats, these loving parents did what any good person would do, file a lawsuit against the maker of the aluminum bats.  And, what do you know, the jury awarded these good hearted parents with $850,000 to fill the void left in their hearts by the loss of a loved one because the bat company apparently "failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product poses".  What a great country we live in, where all problems can be solved by the trial bar, any loss of happiness can easily be recompensated with a wad of cash, and where life is apparently too dangerous to be sold without a "warning" sticker.

What really pisses me off is that these people act like there saints.  "We just want to save someone else's life," the Mother said.  EFFING BULL.

In the end, this sort of stuff pisses me off so much because it shows how messed up our system truly is (see: Malpractice).  Everyone feels as if they have some sort of "privilege", and our extremely slanted legal system has ensured that bloodsucking lawyers can manipulate our idiotic juries into voting for the "little guy" and standing up against those "big evil corporations", "greedy doctors", and other evil people (see: People with jobs).

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#1) On November 04, 2009 at 9:35 PM, devoish (99.65) wrote:

Aluminum? I suspect it was a composite but I cannot find a model in any report. I played softball for years and stopped at age 35. I had enough power with an aluminum bat to keep the outfielders from cheating in. At 45 and in much worse shape I played another season. With a composite I had legitimate home run power, even though I was not stronger.

It is not like baseball has lengthened the basepaths or the distance to the mound in 60 years regardless of the changes in the bats.

From what I can read, Hillerich and Bradsby argued that their bat was no more dangerous than a wooden one. Their advertising may have worked against them on that.

They probably would have done better to argue, "yes the bats are better, but the parents have responsibility". Anyway, let's see what the parents actually get, after the appeals process, and how much those dollars will be worth in 2020 before we condemn the Judicial system.

This is a nice bat. It was not available at the time of the accident. But I doubt you are seeing to many "aluminum" bats in litttle league these days. I sure there are none left in u12 girls fastpitch on Long Island.

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#2) On November 04, 2009 at 9:57 PM, rebelcow (< 20) wrote:

Regardless of what the bat was made of or what the defense argued, the fact that a jury would find the manufacturer of the bat responsible for the death of that boy is pure idiocy.

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#3) On November 05, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Gemini846 (91.07) wrote:

The bar to prove negligence is far too low.

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