Hosting, Small Ice, and Face Shields

[Lowell '99]

With no comment about the other issues presented here, I feel pretty strongly that if a batter charged the mound with his bat in hand and beat the pitcher to death, he should be prosecuted.  There's no reasonable way that could happen (as opposed to a bat flying out of a batter's hands on a swing).  As for the ball hitting a player in the head, well, that happens all the time, and intent is a hell of a lot harder to prove.  Even Clemens' excuse for the broken bat toss at Piazza ("I thought it was the ball") is about a thousand times more believable than any excuse for a hitter charging the mound and beating the shit out of a guy with his bat.  

Just trying to support these tangents, that's all.



Post Edited (05-05-03 17:23)