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People spend 200 bucks for a bat that lasts 300 swings?It's considered bad form simply because todays compsite bats have a self life of about 300-350 swings before they either break or stop passing the compresion testing.Spend the $199, buy a Ultra II and thank me when you start hitting the ball in the face consistently. This bat has the largest sweet spot in softball, so much so that it was deemed illegal in all sanctioned play with the exception of Seniors.That's considered bad form? I didn't know that especially since some guys bring 3 different bats. I thought it was find one that you can hit with. I will check out the Play it Again sports to see if there are any more current than mine, though. Thanks for the tips.Well, here's your predicament. You like your bat. You like the 26 oz. you don't want to spent the coin needed to significantly improve. It's also bad form kind of to borrow your teammates' really good bats.
Sounds like sticking with your garage sale bat is the play.
Less than $1 a pop, much cheaper than women.People spend 200 bucks for a bat that lasts 300 swings?It's considered bad form simply because todays compsite bats have a self life of about 300-350 swings before they either break or stop passing the compresion testing.Spend the $199, buy a Ultra II and thank me when you start hitting the ball in the face consistently. This bat has the largest sweet spot in softball, so much so that it was deemed illegal in all sanctioned play with the exception of Seniors.That's considered bad form? I didn't know that especially since some guys bring 3 different bats. I thought it was find one that you can hit with. I will check out the Play it Again sports to see if there are any more current than mine, though. Thanks for the tips.Well, here's your predicament. You like your bat. You like the 26 oz. you don't want to spent the coin needed to significantly improve. It's also bad form kind of to borrow your teammates' really good bats.
Sounds like sticking with your garage sale bat is the play.
I'm sure there are "competition teams" around. A couple guys I play fast pitch with came from teams like that, but I'm not aware of leagues in our area at that level. They probably have some up in Charlotte though. We do have a beer league that no one takes seriously. It's commonplace to mock the occasional "softball guy" when they come around. It's more about drinking and scanning the talent more than anything else.
Was just going to add this. It is indeed bad form to borrow someone else's nice bat.Well, here's your predicament. You like your bat. You like the 26 oz. you don't want to spent the coin needed to significantly improve. It's also bad form kind of to borrow your teammates' really good bats.
Sounds like sticking with your garage sale bat is the play.
I've seen guys who have no business hitting home runs ever put the ball over a 350 foot fence with relative ease.
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Interesting. In my areas - Arizona, Nevada, SoCal, fast pitch has essentially because extinct and slow pitch is huge. I'd happily play fast pitch (or preferably baseball) and it took me a year to succumb to slow pitch, but it really is a great game once you get passed the false notion that it's just about drinking beer and trying to hit home runs.
Let me make one thing clear: I'm NOT advocating for any post-market changes to a bat. I strongly recommend buying a good, legal bat (frankly, I prefer to buy used because it's both cheaper and the bat is then broken in - I usually just buy from other tourney guys who have an unhealthy obsession with getting softball bats and then are much more willing to part with a bat for a low price if it's going to a buddy/teammate). So I'm a touch sensitive here to the suggestion that I'm recommending some suped-up bat.
This is a very good bat.
I'm not seeing the problem here - unless you are the odd man out on the team. Otherwise, the team would share/use whatever bats are there. My team has about 4-5 bats any given game. The newest is the Miken Freak (Black/Yellow). Everyone typically uses the newest bat there, unless you like one of the other bats better. We have two new bats and three older bats. All get used, and there are 3 owners between all 5 bats. No one on the team really cares who uses whose bat - just that we are getting hits and generating runs.Was just going to add this. It is indeed bad form to borrow someone else's nice bat.Well, here's your predicament. You like your bat. You like the 26 oz. you don't want to spent the coin needed to significantly improve. It's also bad form kind of to borrow your teammates' really good bats.
Sounds like sticking with your garage sale bat is the play.
Probably so. At the time I could count the number of outs I had for a given season. I'm a big lumbering dude, so I wasn't beating out ground balls. I had to hit with accuracy to have a chance. Probably sounds dooshy, but I'm not trying to be. There were at least three guys I played with that I never saw record a hitting out in the 3-4 years I played with them.
I guess neither of can prove it, but I say
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I guess neither of can prove it, but I say
Did the games last 5 or 6 hours with all those guys never getting out? I assume because of the time limit, you guys only played one inning?
I didn't say they never got out. I said they never recorded an out hitting. The one particular team I played on went around the order twice most innings and most outs were recorded on force outs at third. Games were usually over by mercy rule in the third inning. I'm not trying to convince you. You don't have to believe me 
And that's cool. There are certainly some guys that don't mind. The guys I played with all had their own bats and if there was someone on the team that was inclined to borrow, I'd offer my secondary bat, not my best one. I likely spent $200-$350 on a bat that I don't want someone else getting some of the previously discussed limited swings/hits out of it, not to mention they're less likely to treat it properly - meaning I've seen guys throw bats, hit them hard on the ground if they make an out, stuff like that. And some bats can dent - double walls can for sure. I didn't want somebody denting my expensive bat.I'm not seeing the problem here - unless you are the odd man out on the team. Otherwise, the team would share/use whatever bats are there. My team has about 4-5 bats any given game. The newest is the Miken Freak (Black/Yellow). Everyone typically uses the newest bat there, unless you like one of the other bats better. We have two new bats and three older bats. All get used, and there are 3 owners between all 5 bats. No one on the team really cares who uses whose bat - just that we are getting hits and generating runs.Was just going to add this. It is indeed bad form to borrow someone else's nice bat.Well, here's your predicament. You like your bat. You like the 26 oz. you don't want to spent the coin needed to significantly improve. It's also bad form kind of to borrow your teammates' really good bats.
Sounds like sticking with your garage sale bat is the play.
No doubt, softball guys can be the biggest dooshes in existence. I hear this big oaf at work talk crap about people on his team that can't hit, and how he hit three 500 ft home runs. And all the while everyone around thinks, dude you are playing slo pitch softball. Get a clue, you sucked as a baseball player when you were young and couldn't hit your way out of a wet paper bag. Now you're all puffed up hitting an object a 95 yr old man could hit.
My teammates and I are really nice guys too. Generally if somebody doesn't want to use a bat it's no big deal. If we're in a big tournament and some guy has one that is broken in perfectly he may even offer others to use it.
I can't hold my tongue on this one. Sounds like you guys were playing like nine a side in church league against really weak teams which helps, but come on. I hear you on being able to place the ball. That's what I do too and can usually carry about a .800 OBP. But there certainly going to be times where you "accidentally' hit into an out - line one at an infielder, hit one a little too well and line out to an outfielder, or, at most levels, some fielder is just simply going to make a good play on an otherwise well hit/placed ball. And this is ignoring the inevitable momentary loss of concentration and hitting like a popup.
This is most of them. And quite frankly they are the ones that are HR or bust reliant on their bat to help them out. I really debated even telling the story I did because I knew most wouldn't believe me, but whatever. It is what it is. The guys I played with were never like this and had been playing slow pitch for many years and were just that good
Oddly, two of them now play fast pitch with me and have no plans of ever going back to slow pitch and several years ago they were on the US National slow pitch team (I didn't even believe them when they told me their background....I didn't know there was such a thing) We dropped the ball on qualifying for the ASA tournament this year, but maybe next year. It's addicting.
I pitched for years, and juiced up bats scared the #### out of me. Especially when I'd talk #### and start getting line drives all the time at me.Zow said:
Point taken. At the Play it Again Sports, I am debating between a couple of DeMarini offerings. One for 90 and another for 80. The uprising and the ulitmate weapon. Both are 2014 models.Zow said:
