| 29 May 2010
Yahoo! published an article on Friday, May 28, "Head injuries to pitchers trigger cry for protection." The article centered on USF pitcher Matt Hiserman, who I wrote about upon his comeback earlier in the spring, and around Gunnar Sandberg, along with other kids that have been struck by batted balls off metal bats. Obvisously if you are reading this, you know how I feel about this issue and ALL the reasons metal bats are bad for baseball.
I am glad Yahoo! wrote an article about the safety issue, but let's be clear here, the article is simply an advertisement for headgear, which will be and is made by the same companies that make the headgear necessary. I would be willing to bet, that if we dug not too deeply, we would find that a lobbyist firm or a publicist for a bat company approached Yahoo! and "asked" them to write the article. A person named Dave Halstead, technical director of the Southern Impact Research Center and a apparently some sort of expert in the area of head and neck injuries, is quoted in the article, saying this,
“It’s nonsense that the non-wood bat is the reason for these injuries,” Halstead said. “The exit speed from the bat is the same."
It is a gross injustice that he is allowed to get that comment out there. Was he supported and propped up by the SGMA or the "don't take my bat away" group or paid off by a bat company? I sure hope that was his reason for saying something he knows nothing about and should not be speaking about. He is a person that knows about head injuries and neck injuries, not baseball bats, or anything about the game. I am willing to bet he only knows the "evidence" offered by the bat cartel that talks about exit speeds in lab experiments.
THE PLAYERS KNOW THE TRUTH. REAL COACHES KNOW THE TRUTH. SCOUTS KNOW THE TRUTH. THE BAT MAKERS ABSOLUTELY KNOW THE TRUTH.
DAVE HALSTEAD, HEAD AND NECK INJURY EXPERT, HE DOES NOT KNOW THE TRUTH AND I WOULD LOVE FOR HIM TO KNOCK ON THE SANDBERG'S DOOR AND TELL GUNNAR THAT THE BALL DOES NOT COME OFF A METAL BAT ANY FASTER.
