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Ridiculous lawsuit alert:

A Montana jury has found the maker of Louisville Slugger baseball bats failed to adequately warn about the dangers the product can pose, awarding a family $850,000 for the 2003 death of their son in a baseball game.

…Brandon Patch’s family argued that aluminum baseball bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel at a greater speed.

They argued their 18-year-old son did not have enough time to react to the ball being struck before it hit him in the head while he was pitching in an American Legion baseball game in Helena in 2003.

Pitching is dangerous, as I can attest after more than my share of close calls in my now finished career.  This is not news to anyone, and no silly little warning label that no one will ever read is going to make this more obvious than it already is. Anyone who has ever taken their life in their hands and stepped on the mound knows this already.  It’s a statistically small but very real risk that comes with the game, of that same type that comes with any sport.

The death of a young player is tragic, but so are silly lawsuits that seek to assuage grief by falsely assigning blame.

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