Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, condemned the New York Yankees' use of the new Torpedo bats in a recent rant on social media. Following a series of home runs hit by the Yankees, including a franchise-record nine homers in a single game, Portnoy accused the team of attempting to cheat by enhancing bats with input from an MIT physicist. He argued this innovation dilutes the skills of players, compares it to using corked bats, and criticized MLB for allowing such practices.
"The Yankees hired an MIT physicist to basically take wood from the other part of the bat - near the handle and label and put it in the sweet spot - making the sweet spot bigger."
"If you get jammed and it's a home run, that doesn't mean you suddenly got better, that's just some geek from MIT, some physicists ruining 100 years of baseball."
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