Metal baseball bats are dangerous!

It's early spring and I heard another story on the radio today about the "question" of whether or not metal baseball bats are more dangerous than wood ones.  The one I heard today was about a high school pitcher in California who got hit in the head with a line drive off an aluminum bat and had to have part of his skull removed to relieve the pressure and put into a medically induced coma.  All the powers that be in that school's baseball district got together and, after reading some studies (I wonder if any bat companies paid for them), decide that there was no safety difference between metal and wood bats. 

Anyone who has played any reasonable amount of baseball using both wood and metal bats will tell you there is a HUGE difference between the two.  While these "studies" may conclude that there's no difference between the speed of the ball off the bat anyone who has used both types of bats will tell you there's a huge difference.  I suggest we put the committees making these irresponsible decisions on the pitcher's mound without an "L" screen and let them throw a little BP to hitter using both kinds of bats. They'll figure out really quickly which type of bat is safer.

You can hear today's news story on this here.