In the Bleachers by Ben Zaehringer for June 25, 2022

George Brett would be attacking the ump.

Albert Bell?

The Ump: "Me thinks thou dost “protest” too much, Mr. Shakespeare."

That could have happened to Sammy Sosa but his bat broke in a game versus the Rays and the ump stared at all those little balls of cork, seemed like the stadium was silent for a whole minute before Sammy got run. Apparently Slamming Sammy thought he needed more than steroids to blast that ball outta the park.

Is that batter Mr C Cat?

Ha! I remember there was a huge controversy about a corked bat used by Albert Bell, of the Cleveland Indians. Fun times!

He’s a real corker!

Why? It obviously has no cork!

Ah memories of Sammy Sosa !

Good way to keep him from noticing how far up the pine tar goes!

For anyone a little vague on the advantages of a corked bat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corked_bat

Cork free. And made in a cork free factory.

There’ve been a pretty fair number of big-name baseball players who’ve corked their bats at some point in their careers. Albert Belle and Sammy Sosa are probably the most notorious, but even Babe Ruth and Pete Rose are believed to have tried corking.

Ed the Red posted a link on bat corking – strictly on physics the batter is worse off. The book author stated that the one measurable is the mental component – if the batter is in a better mental state, that could give him enough of a boost to overcome the bat limitations.

Insert Barry Bonds joke here