So says Brandon McCarthy

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/protective-headgear-mlb-pitchers-coming-soon-according-brandon-213744402--mlb.html?_devicefull

How did baseball survive for over 100 years without this? No one ever hit a line drive back at the pitcher?

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That's going to look nuts. I miss the old days when guys came to the plate wearing their soft caps. That's when men were men.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Baseball survived. Herb Score's career didn't.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

They could introduce the facemask like they do in softball.

And with it being optional, I don't envision many pitchers using it.

May as well change the league logo to John Olerud ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

They wont want to look like a dork like Olerud.

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That's a good reference.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I would prefer they go back to a dead ball.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I think to some degree they already have.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

People just making jokes here? No one can really care that a pitcher would wear a helmet right?

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Team Cutler.

"protective headgear" doesn't necessarily mean a helmet:

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-- source

No, it's fine ... kinda surprised if they weren't "allowed" to already ... peer pressure would surely play some part in it now though ... if it's mandated, then nobody can really say anything, not to the level they could without it anyway.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

People are always going to mock something like that at first. When Charlie Wait wore the first glove he had it made the same color as his hand so people wouldn't notice. They did notice and he was ridiculed. It took a popular guy like Al Spalding to make it okay to wear a glove without being laughed at. I would bet if a guy goes 15-8 with a 2.20 ERA wearing a helmet, no one will be laughing at him.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Have you forgotten the great Dick Allen?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

That wasn't to protect him from baseballs. It was to protect him from the bottles and batteries that were thrown his way in the Philadelphia outfield.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It is comparable to when they instituted helmets in hockey.

Let the pros choose to wear it. Make it mandatory in little league and it will be the norm in a decade.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

He was wearing it playing for the White Sox at 1st base. They don't play Philly. I do think that is right though. I forgot about people doing that to him.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Awesome!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Now thats bringing the funny. Fucking outstanding, Greg.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Great minds and all that....

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Post of the year.

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I did not realize redskin greg had that level of funny in him.

Nicely done

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

+100

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GO BEARS!!!

If they do anything, it should start with youth baseball. I know my reflexes aren't what they were, but the composite bats out now are so "hot," I can barely pitch batting practice to my son anymore without getting smoked.

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