NEW YORK — The Torpedo Bat Era isn’t even a week old.
But in the short time since Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay pointed out the team’s new, misshapen sticks on live TV, Torpedo Bat Mania has consumed the baseball world. Clubhouses, press boxes, bleachers and broadcasts are abuzz with questions and curiosities about these novel, bowling-pin-shaped pieces of lumber.
Meanwhile, the conversation has crossed over into the public consciousness to a significant degree. Michael Strahan did a segment about it on “Good Morning America.” Movie star and Dodgers fan O’Shea Jackson Jr. tweeted about it. And perhaps most bizarrely, the account for the Assassin's Creed Video Game series posted a joke about a torpedo-shaped katana sword.
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