"See, I don't agree with putting spikes in your baseball bat. I think crushing the skull will cause enough damage to the brain that the added damage of spikes is redundant and unnecessary.

Plus, spikes give your weapon a chance to get stuck and slow down your next swing.

But most importantly, driving spikes through a baseball bat will compromise the weapon structurally, significantly increasing the chance that the bat will break the next time you connect with it. "