When Will Baseball Break With Maple?

There's no other way to ask it.

When is Major League Baseball going to break with Maple?

Yesterday, Cubs rookie outfielder Tyler Colvin, who leads the league in rookie homeruns with twenty, was at third when the bat from teammate Wellington Castillo separated.
He was injured when the fat part of the maple bat impaled him in the chest.

Colvin's season is over. His career was almost ended in an instant, thanks to another runaway piece of maple wood.

Commisioner Selig said the problem has been handled, citing that baseball is down over 50 percent in broken bats.

One problem: This is not like the rest of baseball, where percentages tell the entire story.

Cubs infielder Jeff Baker tells the story of seeing an umpire in Kansas City get slashed in the neck with a maple bat. Don Long was hit in the cheek by the same part of the bat a few years ago.

Is a player going to have to get killed on the field by a bat impaling their heart to get baseball to do something?

Baseball just keeps sitting on their hands, hoping nobody gets hurt by maple bats.

They can't wait anymore.