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We penalize the casual profanity with a local rule that basically says the following:
If it's loud enough for more than the player and the umpire to hear, that batter is out. If it's not the batter who said it, the next batter is out. Even on defense - if the defender utters the F-Bomb, then their first batter the next half-inning is an out.
It's self policing. And it works pretty well. I started one inning with two outs - the first two batters scheduled to bat were pis$ed off at the idiot on their team who kept swearing because he caused them to miss their at-bat.
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