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I think what is ridiculous is a catcher not moving to catch a ball. A catcher knows that the umpire is behind him and has to realize that if he doesn't stop the ball, it will likely stop with the umpire becoming the backstop.
So if you know you have a person behind you and don't move to catch a ball that is going past you, knowing that it is going to hit said person, that sounds an awful lot like intentional to me.
I generally tell every catcher below H.S. JV two things. One, framing the ball is okay but don't pull it or it's a ball every time. Two, block everything because I don't want to get hit.
Whatever rule deals with unsportsmanlike conduct is what I'll use to eject a catcher if he lets me get hit more than once. And I don't mean that he moves but misses the ball, I mean if he just doesn't move. Do that more than once and you are gone.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. ~Socrates
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