[greymule]

I don't know exactly what ASA said, but the tournament wanted to ban the bats and ASA would not allow the directors to invoke ASA's authority. I heard our guy was on the phone with ASA for a long time Friday. Even without that backing, a private tournament could of course set its own rules. But with a manufacturer's rep there threatening them with Perry Mason, the directors felt they had to allow the bats.

I do agree that if the directors had said, "ASA has determined that these bats are dangerous, and in the interests of safety we cannot risk allowing them," a lawsuit would have been easy to beat. But I'm not the one who would have had to pay the lawyers $25,000 to win in court.

Still, several people did warn me that as an ump I might be liable. Since there's a guy in the hospital now, I'm glad I worked under a fake name.

[Edited by greymule on Aug 6th, 2002 at 09:18 AM]