More from the "It's not my fault" crowd.

[W5GA]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356596,00.html

Yet another frivolous lawsuit from those who refuse to be liable for their own actions.

[KB1PRQ]

Hopefully someone will beat the parents to death with aluminum bats.

[kb3laz]

Hopefully someone will beat the parents to death with aluminum bats.

nope they should use fishing string, pliers, a cigar cutter, a coil lighter, a blow torch, and some zenbone. And if they still live torture them.

[ve2nsm]

Soon you will see a ruling making if mandatory for little league baseball to use foam bats in order to avoid injuries.
The ball will be made softer too, and lighter, and of course the size of the field would have to be reduced accordingly :D

I feel the pain of the parents, but how can you be so utterly stupid?

[NA4BH]

I can't believe they left the baseball manufacturer out of the suit. They must be saving it for the real big suit. The one that includes GOD (for making the dirt they played on), GOD again (for not making the atmosphere dense enough to slow the ball down). The Ambulance service, tire maker on the ambulance, the company that paved the roads, the company that made the uniforms (for not putting a steel plate over the heart), and GOD for the third time (for not giving their kid the speed and coordination to get out of the way).

Anything for a buck.

[ac4ut]

There are probably some large medical bills involved. This is, in many cases, what initiates such suits.

[N9MOQ]

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[n7wr]

The kid's dad was his coach. Maybe he ought to sue himself since he (at least as much as the manufacturer, Little League Baseball and the Sports Authority) ought to have known of the dangers.

[k8wpj]

Where's Darwin when you need him?

Seriously, the kid's parents have got to be on glue, if they think that suit actually has any merit...

Things happen, life isn't fair, deal with it...

[KG7E]

I once broke my hand sliding into second base. I should have sued the manufacturer of the base pad that caused the fracture, and the second baseman who landed on my broken hand after he caught the ball. And the umpire who threw me out of the game for swearing as I was walking off the field on my way to the hospital. How much could I have gotten?

[KD6NIG]

Soon you will see a ruling making if mandatory for little league baseball to use foam bats in order to avoid injuries.
The ball will be made softer too, and lighter, and of course the size of the field would have to be reduced accordingly :D

I feel the pain of the parents, but how can you be so utterly stupid?

One thing that should be noted was that when the injury happened, it was not during a little league game.

Little league is in the suit because they have a label on the bat certifying its use for little league games, but it wasn't a sanctioned event by them that the injury occured during.

[N8UZE]

They should have included everyone present at the game for not knowing CPR. That probably would have prevented the long term brain damage.

[KD0DKI]

I was a little league and babe ruth coach for years, I'm finally letting it rest after 6 years of total fun.

I was hit in the head with a thrown ball by a 13 year old (blind side) durring fungo, My bell got run darn good. You have to remember we teach the boys to throw as hard as they can, it hit me doing about 63 mph. The kid is a really good pitcher. I did go see the doctor they did an MRI, didn't find anything in there... :D

Durring a game 2 years ago a coach was hit low (yes there) with a line drive foul at first base. He wasn't paying attention to the game (divorced guy with divorced women in the audence). We had to help him off the field, he had puked all over himself so we really thought about leaving him :D

This happened to my daughter and my son was holding the bat.
He was holding the knob of the bat swinging it with the barrel down.
My daughter walked up behind him and took the end of the bat in the top front teeth jamming them up in to her jaw. She has caps and can't take some sound waves, she gets really upset like finger nails on a chalk board. She is fine now...:)

We had a kid slide in to second and snap his anckle, I knew what it was when I heard the pop, sounded like a good long hit with some tissue damage. Total dislocation of the anckle and it was pointing in the wrong direction. Kid thought he could still play.

No one sued, it's part of the game! If parents don't know sports are dangerous then they should stay at the library. I bet mommy is a real work in progress.

I feel for the kid, he will be disabled as long as he lives.

[ve2nsm]

I was hit in the head with a thrown ball ---- it hit me doing about 63 mph. ---- I did go see the doctor they did an MRI, didn't find anything in there...


Well, you said it first :D:D:D:D

[ad5mb]

There is not enough information here to be sure, but...
something like this features in John Grishams "The Appeal".

Bottom line: Aluminum bats don't have the length - weight ratio of wood. You can make a short heavy aluminum bat. Small kid can swing it, hit like a pro. Imparts too much energy into the ball. This condition has been known for years. TV News could have been spreading this scare story for years. Maybe we should sue the media, for not giving us the proper FUD ( Fear, Uncertainty, Death )

[n0ov]

I never in my wildest dreams thought there would be a generation of folks who have absolutely no concept of right, wrong, or accountability? Heck no wonder why folks are trying to make a case to eliminate freedoms we enjoy under the 1st and 2nd Amendment -- with the "not my fault crowd" logic, it's not my fault that person got mad at me over the internet, I had a defective computer.........keyboard

[wb5ydk]

Although he was not playing in a Little League game, the organization is being sued because it gave its seal of approval to the bat, certifying it as safe for use by children...My, how someone is grasping at legal straws!

I think that in the future, organized sports will be played by homebound kids on video game consoles linked together over the Internet. Nobody will get hurt: no sprained ankles, no elevated heart / breathing rates and no dirty uniforms for Mom to wash. Furthermore, the scoring on these games will be designed so that both teams will win in the competition and all players will earn MVP status for the day's game.

[n0ov]

Plenty of law suits for carpol tunnel. Of course, that may a bit challenging proving the actual cause for young males going through............................ well enough of that

[kb2vxa]

He failed to catch the ball which would have resulted in an easy out. In baseball this is called an error. I hope the judge is a baseball fan. On the other hand he may think aluminium bats are dangerous and wooden bats are not. Why else would aluminum bats be outlawed in major league baseball? If that's the case he's a football fan.

"Plenty of law suits for carpol tunnel."

I had two surgeries for carpel tunnel syndrome so who can I sue? I have tendonitis so can I sue for that too? What about my bad back and flat feet? I want to get RICH so please tell me!

[K0RGR]

This one is pretty far fetched. It's too bad the kid was hurt, but the kid was playing baseball. I bet his parents had to sign some form of release before he was allowed to play - at least if the organizers of the game had any gray matter at all these days.

Everything is dangerous, but there was no negligence here.

If the manufacturer of the aluminum bat had sold it as a 'safer' bat, then I suspect they might have a slight chance of prevailing here.

I wonder how many kids have received similar injuries from balls hit by wooden bats, or simply thrown?

[K9STH]

VXA:

The main reason that aluminum bats are outlawed in the major leagues is not that they are more dangerous than wooden bats but that the ball generally travels farther when hit with a metal bat (the metal does not "give" like wood and therefore more energy is transferred to the ball). When metal bats were tried in the major leagues mediocre hitters suddenly started hitting balls out of the ballpark. Since that was not considered to be "in the spirit of the game" metal bats were outlawed.

I believe that metal bats are still allowed in college play. However, I do know that several attempts have been made to outlaw them.

Some high school leagues have outlawed metal bats but I believe that the majority still allow them.

All 3 of my daughters played fast-pitch softball and my eldest was 5 times metropolitan Dallas (Texas) all-star starting pitcher in middle school and high school. In high school she was 5'1" tall and weighed like 85 pounds. The first time she walked out onto a softball field the other players (she was in coed softball PE) did not take her serious. But, the fact that she carried a bat that was 1/2 ounce less than the maximum weight and 1/2 inch shorter than the maximum length allowed and a ball glove that "had been through the wars" should have told them something! The very first scrimmage showed the other players that she was serious. After that, she was usually the very first player selected when choosing teams.

Anyway, aluminum bats have been in use for going at least 4 decades. There have been just as many players, probably more players, injured over the years where wooden bats were used. Any sport can cause injury or even death. That is just a "fact of life".

Glen, K9STH

[WF7A]

If they really wanted to go after the true culprit (in spirit, anyway), the parents should sue the descendants of Sir Isaac Newton. After all, it's his three laws that started the whole transfer-of-force thing.

If they don't want to go after Isaac Newton's descendants then they can sue Nabisco since they're guilty by association...figuratively speaking.

[kc9jwa]

So many sue for anything these days, its life you have to take risks weather its you or your family, if i sued for gettin hit in mouth by baseball i be ok now lol, or my brokin finger by a basketball what sue the basketball company or michael jordan cause of seein what he can do , i was 15 then. Seriously people go eat at mcdonalds get fat and sue what on earth, thats about same for me to go to a ciggy store by a pack smoke it and sue for loss of oxgen.:mad: