MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

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  • JEM
    Banned
    • Feb 2009
    • 501

    #31
    Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

    So it takes a NYM being hit in the head for the MLB to get to work on a new helmet...

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    • J0nnD0ugh
      Hall Of Fame
      • Feb 2003
      • 16602

      #32
      Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

      Originally posted by WakeUnc2321
      Does your hospital experience factor into your conviction?
      Maybe. I don't know. I just don't see how people can say they'd rather look cool than be safe. Isn't that what Dale Earnhart said? He'd probably still be racing if he hadn't so strongly objected to various safety features that are now mandatory. I think it's downright stupid to wait until someone dies or is a vegetable before action is taken. If you have the device that you know will work better now, why delay?
      Originally posted by VP Richard M. Nixon
      I always remember that whatever I have done in the past, or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible one way or the other.
      -August 17, 1960
      Thanks, dookies!

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      • Chaos81
        Hall Of Fame
        • Mar 2004
        • 17150

        #33
        Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

        Originally posted by JEM
        So it takes a NYM being hit in the head for the MLB to get to work on a new helmet...
        Huh? The helmet was being worked on before he got hit. It was supposed to be introduced for spring training next year.


        Anyways, he already stopped wearing it.

        http://www.google.com/hostednews/can...qpHIcLv9t-hpWg

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        • p_rushing
          Hall Of Fame
          • Feb 2004
          • 14514

          #34
          Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

          This is going to screw a lot of people up. The extra weight and tightness will mess with a lot of players swings. If they could come up with something that inflates like an air bag only on contact, I think more players would wear it. All that cushioning is going to be hot.

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          • CMH
            Making you famous
            • Oct 2002
            • 26203

            #35
            Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

            I really thought this was only for Wright. I didn't know it was being designed for everyone. Not sure what to think about that new revelation.
            "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

            "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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            • Speedy
              #Ace
              • Apr 2008
              • 16143

              #36
              Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

              Originally posted by J0nnD0ugh
              Maybe. I don't know. I just don't see how people can say they'd rather look cool than be safe. Isn't that what Dale Earnhart said? He'd probably still be racing if he hadn't so strongly objected to various safety features that are now mandatory. I think it's downright stupid to wait until someone dies or is a vegetable before action is taken. If you have the device that you know will work better now, why delay?
              I agree wholeheartedly, just curious if that was a factor.

              The manly ego I would believe is the sole reason. Obviously, I have pride as a man in feeding my family, as well as my testimony and how I'm seen of others but not enough to the point that appearance > life.
              Originally posted by Gibson88
              Anyone who asked for an ETA is not being Master of their Domain.
              It's hard though...especially when I got my neighbor playing their franchise across the street...maybe I will occupy myself with Glamore Magazine.

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              • DR Russell
                Rookie
                • Feb 2009
                • 364

                #37
                Re: MLB's new helmets need a little bit of work

                Originally posted by Skerik
                Big head mode has been activated.
                LOL.
                They look horrible, i hope it's not mandatory for MLB in the future.

                DR Russell

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