Monday - May 19, 2008

Dewey, Cheatum, & Howe: we’ll sue anybody

A New Jersey couple, whose son was struck in the chest with a line drive, is planning to sue the maker of a metal baseball bat used in the game.

Two years ago, Steven Domalewski was pitching when the ball slammed into his chest and stopped his heart. He was resuscitated but now has brain damage and is severely disabled.

The family contends metal baseball bats are inherently unsafe for youth games because the ball comes off them much faster than from wooden bats. The lawsuit will also be filed against Little League Baseball and a sporting goods chain that sold the bat.

An attorney says Domalewski will need millions of dollars worth of medical care for the rest of his life.

The bat maker says while it sympathizes with Steven and his family, the bat is not to blame for the injury.

This is just ridiculous. Yeah, it’s a shame your kid got injured. It really is terrible. But suing the bat company is really stupid. How is it you think the sporting goods store is at fault, when any other store could have sold the exact same bat? Why not sue the parents of the kid on the other team who hit the ball? After all, if that kid hadn’t swung the bat so fast, your kid might still be Ok. And let’s ignore the obvious: another kid with a wooden bat and a faster swing could have hit the ball just as hard or harder.

No, if you have to find somebody to sue here, sue the Little League association itself. I think they set up a rule that says only metal bats can be used, not wooden ones? And they’re the group that didn’t have the foresight to require pitchers, and possibly all infield players, to wear some kind of body armor like the motocross racers wear. Nor did they make a rule that a defibrillator be on hand and that the coaches and umpires have the necessary training to use one. Because something like this happens about once every 20 years or so. They needlessly placed little Johnny at risk, playing such a dangerous sport!!

You’ll lose the suit, but every kid playing baseball in America will then be forced to wear the protective gear. And every team will have the device and the training. Thereby driving up the cost of having your kid in Little League by a huge amount. Thanks a lot. But we’ll all sleep happy, knowing our kids are so much safer now. Until one of the little spazzers trips over the curb in the parking lot and knocks his teeth out. Then the lawsuits will start again.

In the moonbat utopia of America everyone is a victim. Always. Which means that no matter what happens, somebody is going to get sued. Always. I think all parents should be sued, because of the negligence of bringing children into this world full of risk. So nobody should be allowed to have children anymore, for their own good!

Posted by Drew458     on 05/19/2008 at 07:39 AM   
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