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Who cares the reason for the ban. Let's just be glad the things are gone!

They're an offense to the great American pass time, a whiney, tinny foreign accent on the great grassy stage that should only champion the hearty, manly crack of wood on leather!

Junior is a typical lib, seeking to use the power of government to ban that which offends his aesthetic sensibilities. The elites know best, after all. Can't let the proles have freedom to decide for themselves.

Aluminum bats (and 9-irons) are among the most leathal weapons on earth. They have no other useful purpose than to hit things. They should be owned only by thoroughly trained professionals and should be liscensed. When someone is injured, the bat manufacturer must be given responsiblity.

Wiffle balls are made of plastic which may contain harmful pthalates. - Baaaad Idea.

Hey New York, while you're at it how about banning designated hitters?

Let's see, uh, making the pitchers bat and run would tire them out more so they couldn't throw as hard, thereby making hitting safer for batters. How's that for a safety argument? It's the best I could on short notice.

Darn you, Ronald Regan! I hate to agree with you, but you're right!
Besides, wooden bats are more prone to dings and chips, so each can develop hitting qirks all their own. If they last that long, that is.

there's so much more to this story that you didn't cover.

the basis for all this nonsense in a brown university study from 1997 where it was found that the ball does in fact travel faster off aluminum bats. only problem here is that the manufacturers changed their specs after the study to make them as "safe" as wooden bats.

oddo attempted to call several expert witnesses at the hearing on this, and none of them, including the author of the brown study, would testify that the modern aluminum bats are more dangerous than wood bats. the only witnesses who testified on behalf of oddo's cause where a family who's son was injured while pitching where an aluminum bat was involved and former major league pitcher john franco who testified that to his eye it looks like the ball goes faster off an aluminum bat.

you think the politiicians you read about day in and day out are bad, the nut jobs that make up the ny city council take the cake.

This is all just a big, BIG, misunderstaning!

They don't want to ban aluminum-bats, they were mis-heard, they want to eliminate MOON-bats!

I'm still not sure why it's the duty of the government to rule over baseball. I guess...because they can.

And you know what's safer than playing baseball with wooden bats? Not playing baseball at all. Should they ban that? Should the government starting banning everything that's dangerous?

The government will decide what's dangerous and what's not...what you can do for fun and what you can't. After all, there's no expert in the world like a government appointed investigation committee, whose findings are imperical and used to pass laws to dictate how we live.