Wood or Metal?

**yankeebaseball** · April 15th, 2007, 07:55 PM

Slugger or Plasma?

If you take the metal bats out of college baseball, Id have to say Id never watch a game. I usually watch 3-4 a week now.

**UTVols2** · April 15th, 2007, 08:03 PM

I love that ping, I wish MLB used metal bats. I am sure with technology these days they could find a way to make the Aluminum bats a little more "dead" to where it would comparable to a wood bat. I don't know maybe I am wrong. I personally love the sound of an aluminum bat, it is what playing baseball should sound like.

**yankeebaseball** · April 15th, 2007, 08:05 PM

I agree, year by year though the bats get more "ping" I remember when I played the REDLINE and C-CORE bats were hot, now my nephew uses PLASMA and STealth bats that put those to shame. I know that titanium bats have been demmed illegal.

**imported_MoonlightGraham** · April 15th, 2007, 08:32 PM

you need to look into a DeMarini, I absolutely LOVED mine, felt like the bat was actually bending on the whip.

But I disagree w/both of you. I think from highschool up they should use wood bats. Best time of my life was the summer I played in a wood bat league a few years back. Makes you really earn a hit.

**yankeebaseball** · April 15th, 2007, 08:35 PM

You like the D's?! I have seen them and took some BP with one and it felt aweful. I was really dissapointed. The Plasma bats, the Stealths and the XO Grid are all mean.

I have hit with woody's, I mean I know thas baseball, but to me its what separates the big leagues. Dunno, just makes the game more apealing (sp) I like the scoring.

**1inStripes** · April 15th, 2007, 08:40 PM

I like wood myself man. I used a wood bat some in HS actually. Hit a GS against Tom Walker, then preceded to break it in BP. It was one of the Louisville Sluggers you can buy for $20. I then ordered a Young bat after that with my name on it, but it never felt as good as my slugger.

Wood bats can travel almost as well as metal bats, but the sweet spot is so much smaller, IMO.

As for the good old days NOLA, I liked the Worth Copperheads, but their walls were so thin, I broke 3 in one season. They sounded great, and I loved the one they had that have a wood grain finish on it. I never was a big fan of Easton's Redline or CCore though. I did like TPS AirAttacks.

**UTVols2** · April 15th, 2007, 08:41 PM

You must have played in my era too, that is what we used as well. I have not picked up a bat in 9 years or so, I haven't even seen the new ones. Maybe I would now actually have a shot at hitting one out of the park.

**yankeebaseball** · April 15th, 2007, 08:43 PM

the copperhead lol. those things sounded like a tuning fork.
we had a couple in HS, they would split about 4 inches down the middle. good bats for a limited amount of time. I remember the black magic bats those were clubs, like swinging a fence post.

**yankeebaseball** · April 15th, 2007, 08:46 PM

95-99 is when I played. TPX and Easton made some early bats I used that were aweful but as time progressed they got better. C555 was the first bat I remember thinking made the jump to the next level bat. Since then its progressed every year