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Originally posted by Carl Childress
CB: The American Heritage Dictionary lists "inadvertent" as a synonym of "careless."
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Don't disbelieve you Carl; however the law in most states sees a difference between "careless" and "inadvertent" in determining an individual's culpability for his/her acts. I do, too.
Did you forget to read ALL of the last paragraph of my post? I was not kidding, nor being cute with language: I have never seen a "carelessly" thrown bat on the 90' field. If I saw it, I believe I would call it [as I posted]. I have made the call on a small-ball field.
I have seen INTENTIONALLY thrown bats [& other items]; and have imposed the prescribed sanction. I have seen ACCIDENTALLY released bats, for which the rules prescribe no penalty or warning. I have even seen what I would characterise as INADVERTENTLY thrown bats, which neither caused nor threatened harm to anyone.
Just lucky, I guess.
[Edited by cbfoulds on Apr 24th, 2005 at 06:34 PM]