was one of those things where i felt like i need to be thankful for the life i m living so i teamed up with free month eded up with freemont brewing company and we created it had ipa. we have to comb through applications and it s difficult. every charity that s supporting our military is great but we try to get ones that are more locally focused, ones that reach out to both troops abroad and families at home and soldiers angels spoke to us and how they offer support for both the family and the soldier. tell us about the beer. how good of a beer is it? it s great. it s we age the beer on louisville slugger maple bats. they donate the bats for that process and we add in fresh orange zest so it s a bright
in zero? not sure of that natural product variability in it meaning wood breaks now those maple bats have shattering far less frequently. now major league baseball has fined bat manufacturers that don t meet consistently that grain standard but won t say which ones. future innovations on bats, at least in the discussion phase right now are some sort of sleeve over this portion of the bat which is where a lot of those complete breaks happen. shep? shepard: steve brown our resident red sox in cubby land. only 12 games back still hope. the white house hinting it plans to take action on gun control laws six months after shooter in tucson killed six people and critically wounded the congresswoman gabriel giffords. so what do gun activists, gun rights activists have to say about the particulars of this? we will get reaction from both sides of the issue as fox reports live from chase field in phoenix. site of the 2011 major league
mlv investigating why we have seen some broken bats recently and to try to fix the problem the league is going all the way to the source. steve brown is our chicago-based correspondent live in our newsroom there. what are they doing, steve? well, a book baseball immorality you no doubt know, shep, he wrote a book called the the science of hitting there is a science to bat making as well and the lab is in wisconsin. lots of major leaguers love maple bats. definitely more durable. it s tough when you get a bat you like. but the wrap on maple bats is when they break they shatter spraying big sharp pieces. last september cubs outfielder tyler coal bin was briefly hospitalized with the barrel of a broken maple bat stabbed him in the chest. the ray s david price in may had to limbo. out of the way in the back of