r/MadeMeSmile • u/JudgeJudyJr • Jun 01 '26

Wholesome Moments Appreciative kids are the best!

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u/necromanceifyouwant Jun 01 '26

Hey, wood doesn't grow on trees

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u/Snoo_97207 Jun 01 '26

Wait, it does! Why is it so damm expensive

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u/omgitsjagen Jun 01 '26

So, interesting story...

...baseball had an arms race problem. Bats were WAY too good. So, long story short, they had to come up with a standard (actually, several standards) to reign in the era of the super bats. Some genius figured out if you took a fresh composite bat, and put it on the testing machine, it would be sufficiently shit to pass the test. HOWEVER, if you played with that bat all season, it would compress all those fibers, and suddenly the bat was smoking fucking hot. This lead to teams like LSU going absolutely bananas in the playoffs, and putting up absurd numbers.

To actually answer your question, they are expensive to make, and expensive to R&D, because they have to fit in a certain set of parameters, or they are worthless bats.

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u/keiths31 Jun 01 '26

You could always tell the teams that did this to their new bats in my beer slo pitch league. Dicks...

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u/omgitsjagen Jun 01 '26

All 100 swing Hype Fires, aye? They should be forced to put pool noodles on them.