He needs time to stock up on 'roids anyway.

You play, you pay. Why would you practice w/a corked bat? Would you practice basketball w/a net 1' lower than regulation? It would throw your game off.

Damn, Gelatinous, I was about to post the same pic...

Here's what I haven't heard from anyone. Considering there are 8000 cameras at almost every Cubs game, couldn't some SportsCenter intern cull old footage to find out when he used "the bat" in the past? Granted most of the bats are identical but you could do a scientific study (Sammy usually doesn't swing the black bat.... so to speak)

Gelatinous: yes, you are right. what was I thinking?!

Malinois: no problem. ; )

I read everywhere that corking doesn't really help anyway. Is that true?

Robert Adair, a physicist a Yale and closes thing to an expert on baseball physics as you will ever see (he has written books solely on the physics of baseball) says it does not. I saw Joe Morgan the other night, and he said he didn't think it did either, and even it, the lighter bat wouldn't help a power hitter. I'm inclined to believe them. Other hitters swear it makes a difference, but that could just be mental.

I guarantee, though, if you x-rayed ever single bat in every major league dugout, you'd find more than a few corked bats.

Not looking to see inside the bats. Just if the characteristics of the broken bat match any of the ones he's used in the past. Color: Black Company: Loisville Slugger and so on and so forth. Then compare that to when he uses other bats. Granted that's alot of work but baseball is a statistical orgy.

you know what i find funny? sammy sosa breaks a baseball rule and everyone is on his back for it. tons of other athletes break THE LAW, such as pimpslapping their wives, using coke, have other drugs, get caught DUI, but no one makes a big fuss about it! but nooooo, someone accidently grabs a wrong bat and everyone is on his case about it.

and phelex, most other corked bat batters, scuffed ball pitches only got 7-10 days.