Comments on: Parents to Sue Maker of Metal Baseball Bats Over Son’s Injury

By: Crazymon

Crazymon — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:43:48 +0000

They might as well sue god for making the leather that was put on the ball and sue the animal the leather was taken off of :-/

By: Concetta Simonetti

Concetta Simonetti — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:06:37 +0000

Kids should all be wearing chest protectors. Safe-Heart is awesome (Google it) and kids love wearing it. This is whether they’re using metal or wooden bats.

By: Basti

Basti — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:33:25 +0000

I remember a few years back a guy sued Sears because he backed over his own kid with a riding mower. He blamed Sears because they hadn’t installed some kind of safely device that would prevent that happening. DUH! Apparently he never heard of looking behind him before backing up.

These kind of lawsuits are all about ‘free money’ and some damned lawyer wanting to fill his pockets as well.

By: cary

cary — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:18:36 +0000

Fred, really – how can you POSSIBLY apply COMMON SENSE to this situation?

If you keep calling for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY people aint’ gonna like ya nearly as much as they do now…

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:29:30 +0000

Grief makes people do all kinds of irrational things.

It was an accident; trying to place blame when no one was at fault, just tends to make people less sympathetic to their tragedy.

I feel bad for them, but find it foolish to initiate a lawsuit that has no merit.

By: Derek C.

Derek C. — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:11 +0000

I agree with you TexasFred 100% and may I add the following below:

This was a terrible and tragic accident but to point the finger outwards is ridiculous on this. Why do people always look for a reason or throw blame without realizing that sometimes accidents just happen and that there was nothing that could have been done to prevent them. To sit there and say that the bat manufacturer knowingly produced a product that was dangerous for kids is absurd. This boy would have been hit just as hard regardless if the bat was wooden or aluminum. Little League is only 45 feet from mound to plate. Not to mention, you throw,catch and hit a ball, which in essence is a projectile. You as parents should have known what the dangers are in Baseball BEFORE your son played, not sue people AFTER he was hurt because of your own ignorance. To the parents, why don’t you go and sue the manufacturer of the baseball as it is a projectile or the glove maker, you can say it wasn’t big enough to catch the ball. Or, why not sue the manufacturer of the uniform he was wearing, you can say there should have been some kind of padding in there to protect kids from getting hit by the ball. One more thing for the parents, you had no problem BEFORE this accident with your son pitching or using an aluminum bat did you? So I ask you, if this did not happen to your son but rather to someone else would you have lobbied on behalf of them if their son/daughter was hit like this? Probably not, because it didn’t happen to you and you wouldn’t care, and your son would still be using the same aluminum bat that he has always used and you as parents wouldn’t care that he was.

Thanks TF,

Derek C

By: TexasFred

TexasFred — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:05:32 +0000

To Susan the ‘bleeding heart dumbass’:
I don’t allow comments from people that give fake emails and you did, private@private.com is pretty obvious…

It wasn’t your comment that stopped you, it was your ‘hit and run’ bullshit…

By: BobF

BobF — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:33:54 +0000

If they felt the bats were unsafe for youth games, why did they allow their son to play?