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No one has said this, but I think one rule of thumb is important.
If an action is such that you would eject in the middle of the game, then you should also eject if that action should happen to occur at game's end.
So, if you're tossing a kid for this bat and helmet toss in the 2nd inning, then you ought to toss the kid for doing the same at the end.
That said, the original post had people chiding BU for not ejecting, when PU, right on top of the action, failed to do so. In FED that's appropriate, as this is an automatic ejection. Since it's not in OBR, this is obviously PU's call and if BU poaches this call, it's as bad as poaching any other call of PU's.
If I were PU, I cannot imagine not ejecting for this, but I leave open the possibility that there may exist extenuating circumstances which I cannot currently imagine, which would lead me to not eject.
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