Posted by: Mister X () on Sun Jun 15 20:11:38 2003

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> > Come on thejuice, MLB won't change their underwear for weeks if they start winning games or go on a hitting streak. They will do almost anything that they think gives them an advantage. Confidence is the biggest issue in sports. If you have it you play well. If you don't you play bad. Players will do anything they THINK will help them. It's all a mental thing. A cork will give some players extra confidence, which will help them play better.
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> Points well taken X, you are right, but do you honestly believe that corking a bat does NOTHING to help a player. i just dont see where the idea that it would help came from in the first place if it never had a positive effect to begin with. People dont just pick up cork and decide that it will make them better. at some point in baseball history corking a bat had to have helped somone hit the ball better or else these players never would have gotten the idea that corked bats help to begin with.
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I've used an aluminum bat all my life, so all I can go on is what I have heard. You may be right. At some point in history it might have helped someone hit better. After all, it should increase batspeed. But then again, boneing bats used to help also (as this board knows:-)). Back then, bats weren't made to the exact precision that they are today. It could have helped someone. But did the CORK really help that person Or was it a false sense of confidence created by the cork?? Did the cork itself provide the results or did the cork provide the confidence which in turn provided the results IN SPITE of the cork??? I tend to believe the latter, especially with our modern science backing it up.