Fool. A Bat is a bat. The player got hit with a ball, not a bat. Pads are for pussies that can't hang.
Next?
Can you read at all or are you fucking blind?
You guys are complete morons. The reason they are trying to ban them isn't because they just woke up one morning and decided to be asses. Its because metal bats result in faster batted balls, which result in less reaction time for the pitcher, which results in a higher likelihood of injury to the pitcher. When people are dying unnecessarily playing a sport and that sport's governing body or bodies fail to rectify the situation, the People have a duty to act.
Since you're so interested in how Californians govern themselves, why don't you pick up your favorite metal bat and march over there and protest this grave injustice!
I read fine. You obviously have missed that miniscule document titled "the US Constitution". If you can't run in the yard with the big dogs, stay under the fucking porch.
I'm about sick of walking twats like you trying to dumb down any and everything to the lowest common pussy denominator. If you can't hang, stay home hiding behind Mamma's skirt.
If you don't want to get hit with a bat or a ball, don't play. Any team I ever played on would be better off without a puss like you. We played a game and we played to win and if we got hurt we shrugged it off instead of acting like raspberries from sliding into second base was the fault of the ball field owner for not providing us cork to slide on.
You pansies need to get a clue.
I still have a scar on my leg from a girls cleat, but she broke her ankle, and was also out.
I also slid into third base the next inning, and it didn't heal until the season was over, because it would just reopen every game. Most of the girls on my team and some sort of injury. I was also using icee hot by they time I was fourteen.
Sports are not for pussies.