It’s this “want it right now mentality” crowd. I mean who’s got time to actually break in a bat? Now people want these bat manufacturers to make bats as hot as possible day one right out of the wrapper, gonna compromise strength and durability somewhere doing it that way!Interesting. Anecdotally, based on my own family experience, we’ve been hitting Easton and Miken composite bats, both fastpitch and slow pitch for upwards of 20 years, and never had one crack or otherwise fail internally until this META. I buy new bats owing to my old bats going dead. Just seams odd to me that over the last 5 years or so, I’m hearing more reports of new bats not even making it through a season before they fail. Would be interesting to see actual data to confirm or disprove that, if it’s out there.