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Originally Posted by KSRef
At our State H.S. rules meeting last night (Kansas) we were instructed to record the number of bats we inspected before the game. At the home plate conference we are to advise the coach of how many bats we checked and ask him/her if that is correct. "Coach we checked 10 bats is that all of them?" With the increased penalty for players using illegal bats (player AND coach ejection) they want to be sure the coach has an opportunity to let us know if we got them all.
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I believe this college mechanic to be a waste of time and effort. A courtesy check is more of a passive deterent, but has minimal effect on anyone who wants to cheat. Counting and recounting is like throwing good money after bad.
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The bat issue in softball is as much about liability, insurance and litigation as it is about competition, inflated egos and softball.
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