More Broken Bats in 08 than 07

desus · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:36 pm

Kinda weird since in reality there are more broken bats this year than last year.

I'm averaging at minm one broken bat a game. Had a 4 broken bat game last week (pitcher was Halladay). The number of broken bats is definitely up from last year.

Anyone else notice this?

kilmar · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:54 pm

*Shrug* 15 bats lasted me all season. Ended up with 6 left I believe. Course, it's hard to get a broken bat when most of my contact with the ball ends up going 450+ ft.

BBiship2 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:21 pm

i have matt the sales dude on my list of friends, so i have like 45 bats in my house

cooldude1045 · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:29 pm

In my life mode they always claim you broke your bat. Even though you didn't. In other modes I didn't see any broken bats yet.

Da Cowinator · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:29 pm

I've only ran out of bats twice, and I am in my third year of MLB Life : ) . You can just get them free from your sponsers(or atleast I can) so it hasn't affected me as of yet : ) .

MaxDSterling · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:01 pm

I dunno, in my 2nd year alone I've ripped through about 20 bats. Maybe I'm using maple and need to switch back to ash.

lanceberkman · **Posted:** Tue Aug 19, 2008 11:12 pm

I'm using corked bats so it doesn't matter to me!

Da Cowinator · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:43 am

MaxDSterling wrote:

I dunno, in my 2nd year alone I've ripped through about 20 bats. Maybe I'm using maple and need to switch back to ash.

Made me LMAO

kilmar · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:26 am

lanceberkman wrote:

I'm using corked bats so it doesn't matter to me!

Do you not watch Mythbusters? They proved that corked bats makes you hit the ball a lesser distance than regular bats by a lot.

Da Cowinator · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:23 am

In my last MLB Life season I went through the year with only breaking two or so bats!

(No I didn't bat like .001 or something like that, I think I ended the year at .345)

calislim · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:10 pm

MaxDSterling wrote:

I dunno, in my 2nd year alone I've ripped through about 20 bats. Maybe I'm using maple and need to switch back to ash.

Maybe you should switch to maples. They break less and when they do, you can send the pitcher that broke it to the DL with "broken bat related injuries"

MaxDSterling · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:26 pm

kilmar wrote:

lanceberkman wrote:

I'm using corked bats so it doesn't matter to me!

Do you not watch Mythbusters? They proved that corked bats makes you hit the ball a lesser distance than regular bats by a lot.

Truth. cork may let you swing "faster" with a lighter bat, but the cork absorbs the energy of the ball coming in, and thus it has less "pop" coming off of it.

calislim · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:35 pm

MaxDSterling wrote:

kilmar wrote:

lanceberkman wrote:

I'm using corked bats so it doesn't matter to me!

Do you not watch Mythbusters? They proved that corked bats makes you hit the ball a lesser distance than regular bats by a lot.

Truth. cork may let you swing "faster" with a lighter bat, but the cork absorbs the energy of the ball coming in, and thus it has less "pop" coming off of it.

Makes you wonder about how guys like Sammy Sosa and Albert Bell hit so many home runs. Oh wait... The juice.

lanceberkman · **Posted:** Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:18 pm

That's why I've got 1 career HR! I'm just trying to slap out some bingles not hit upper-deck shots!

Wyl · **Posted:** Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:57 pm

I seem to go through phases where I break bats more often. It might actually be tied indirectly to motivation, since at low motivation levels the good contact area is smaller. With the smaller contact area you'd have more hits that weren't on the sweet spot, with more chance for breakage.

Just a thought.

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