One of the paragraphs in this article actually disproves the rest of the article. It blows my mind that this article can exist. Basically it comes down to this:
X exists.
Here's all the interesting details of X.
btw, X doesn't really exist.
X exists.
Now what?
What a relief to hear that a hitter's sudden power surge is related not to performance-enhancing drugs, but the knob on the end of his bat.
White Sox left fielder Scott Podsednik has stopped using a bat with a shaved-down knob, and the difference in his performance is rather noticeable.
Podsednik hit no home runs and only one triple in 507 regular-season at-bats, yet he now has two homers and two triples in 38 at-bats in the postseason.
Must be the knob.
"All year, Scotty has been cutting the end of the knob on his bat — I think it had something to do with his hand hurting," White Sox right fielder Jermaine Dye said. "A lot of guys were telling him that you lose the balance in the bat by doing that. One day, taking batting practice, he started swinging a normal bat and started hitting balls out of the park."
Podsednik's postseason surge actually began before he changed bats, which he said occurred just before the start of the Series.
"I don't know if it has anything to do with the knob," Podsednik said. "I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week."
Podsednik added, "I'm a feel guy. Sometimes I like swinging a bat with a knob. Sometimes I don't. Tonight it just so happened that the bat had a knob on it. I don't know if it had anything to do with the result or not." — Ken Rosenthal
