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The Madness
Remarkable how Easton can never "leave well enough alone".
The original CNT+, Flex, Extended were the best bats on the market. The following year the new flex and extended both sucked. In that same year they revamped the stealth and came out with the scn4/5 which were both great. The next 2-3 years the stealth line sucked.
It seems like every 3 years or so Easton will produce a worthwhile product. It could be a supplier quality problem or it could be that they are trying to minimize warranty costs by making engineering changes to stiffen up their bats. If you can figure out how to ensure a bat will not fail after loosening up at 1k cuts you ought to be able to figure out how to hasten the break in period. Like it or not people tend to judge a bat by how quickly it breaks in, with perhaps the false assumption that it will only get hotter.
The original CNT+, Flex, Extended were the best bats on the market. The following year the new flex and extended both sucked. In that same year they revamped the stealth and came out with the scn4/5 which were both great. The next 2-3 years the stealth line sucked.
It seems like every 3 years or so Easton will produce a worthwhile product. It could be a supplier quality problem or it could be that they are trying to minimize warranty costs by making engineering changes to stiffen up their bats. If you can figure out how to ensure a bat will not fail after loosening up at 1k cuts you ought to be able to figure out how to hasten the break in period. Like it or not people tend to judge a bat by how quickly it breaks in, with perhaps the false assumption that it will only get hotter.