OT: Fan suffers life threatening injury from a broken bat at Red Sox game.
This is one of the worst things I have seen at a sporting event.
Hopefully she's ok. Looks horrific to say the least.
With the way some of these spaces are designed it's almost amazing more fans aren't seriously injured. I remember reading some hockey book or other when I was a kid detailing how a guy caught a slap shot Bobby Orr took. He woke up the next day to a black strip the size of the puck wide only to find out that he had broken several bones.
Someone taking that to the neck or the back of their head easily could have been killed, but somehow it never happened until 2002. Hopefully this woman makes it and baseball makes whatever changes needed to prevent another incident.
Sounds like Fenway may have it's own issues to solve.
Hopefully all the Fenway baseball purists will SHUT THE FUCK UP and allow Fenway to come into the modern era for fan saftey. There is no excuse for this to happen to a fan.
Can you expand on this? What are BoSox fans opposed to?
Well, the Ricketts family is currently in the process of turning Wrigley into freaking Disneyland, so... Not really a problem going forward, for better or worse.
John Henry's ownership group already massively (and impressively) improved and renovated many key areas at Fenway ever since they bought the Sox in 2002. Fans aren't holding anything back.
This is one of the most ignorant things I've read on the blog. This is a baseball issue, not a Fenway issue. This could have happened at any stadium. Fenway is into the modern era of fan safety. The concourses have been renovated extensively since FSG took over. The seating bowls have undergone improvements as well. I really have no idea where this take came from. This has much more to do with bat materials than anything else.
Hopefully all the Fenway baseball purists will SHUT THE FUCK UP and allow Fenway to come into the modern era for fan safetyWhile this is extremely unfortunate, has anything like this ever happened before in Fenway's 100-odd-year history? For that matter, are we sure that this would have only happened there?
I can't imagine that won't result in some change to fan protection.
Terrible. I was just wondering yesterday when they are going to shutter Fenway Park.
or maybe they'll just buy a bigger net?
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
What a terrible situation. Made worse by the fact that she was likely there with her son, who had to see his mother taken away like that. What a horrible accident.
Are there any updates on her condition? I hope she recovers fully...
No child should have to see something like that with their parent.
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I would put quotation marks around "life-threatening," as the original piece did. There is no verification that this person's life is in danger. When you get hit in the head and blood starts coming out, it's easy to panic. I did it myself when I was a kid.
I hope, for the sake of all involved, that the injuries are minor and much less than they originally appeared to the person who sustained them.
However it works out, I definitely agree with the general sentiment on maple bats. If they wanted to make bats totally safe, they would make them out of metal but subject them to "trampoline effect" testing simiar to golf clubs and balls. It would be pretty easy to test the velocity of a ball coming off of ash or maple and use it to determine the maximum velocity allowed in a metal bat.
From the Boston Globe:
The woman, who was not identified, was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said Boston police Officer Rachel McGuire, a department spokeswoman. There was no word on her condition late Friday night.
At 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Beth Israel spokeswoman Jennifer Kritz said the hospital is not providing any information regarding the condition of the woman at this time.
Don't want to speculate, but it seems if she was doing better they'd say so.
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Guess I was just thinking that if it wasn't as serious as headlines implied , and/or that the prognosis was good, the patient or family would be eager for the public to know and give the hospital permission.
When I was a kid a friend and I were tossing the football in the driveway at night and it went under our boat parked there. My friend ran to get it and being dark didn't see the raised prop and hit it with his head. When he came back out he looked like Freddy Krueger as he was instantly covered in blood yet he didn't even know he was hurt. Required a few stitches and all was well.
Same happened to my dad one time boating and he fell off the jetski and it hit him in the head. Moe stitches and another huge pool of blood at the drs when they reopened the wound to put the stitches in.
Hopefully this situation is similar to those. Relatively minor injuries that look awful.
The first game my son, who was 6 at the time, saw was at Tiger Stadium. I landed tickets from my company and they were first row behind the plate at the edge of the netting. I put my son in the seat with the most protection from the net. He had a ball and I spent the whole game in terror because I was beyond the netting. A few got fouled back but not really close to me. No rubber necking that game, eyes front at all times.