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" wanted to get information on what others think about the situation"
Do your really want to learn something, or just come here to argue and get your position justified? You start out by stating that a collision occurred. Then you insult the #1 expert on this board. (How to win friends and influence people!) Then you decided that the action was intentional. Then you want us to feel sorry for you because you got tossed. Too bad. I would have tossed you also.
The rule that governs your situation is about "Retired Runners" and it will be consistent in most codes. It requires "Intent" in order to call interference. A retired runner cannot be expected to just go poof and disappear from the field. Defenders steps in front of a runner to apply a tag and gets run down, too bad. A runner slides into a defender standing in front of the base and the defender goes down in a tangle, too bad! Unless the runner takes an action - that is observable to the umpire - that indicates the runner deliberately tried to interfere, you don't have a case.
That is not a mis-interpretation of a rule, that is an umpire judgment. And if you continue to argue judgment calls, you deserve to get tossed.
WMB
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