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Originally Posted by Eastshire
Your partner was wrong. That has little bearing on what were are talking about here as far as I can tell.
Fed 3-3-1c says "A . . . player . . . shall not carelessly throw a bat." "Penalty: At the end of playing action, the umpire shall issue a warning to the coach of the team involved and the next offender on that team shall be ejected . . ."
So this is covered by the rules. If you're arguing that a player who, in an attempt to hit the ball, throws the bat all the way to the fence has thrown the bat in a careful manner, then we disagree on what is careless.
We are not given a definition for carelessly throwing the bat, so if you judge that not to be careless, you can't technically be wrong, but I'd question your judgement in the matter.
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The point of my example was not to point out whether my partner was wrong or not, because in his mind and interpretations he wasn't. But, had his understanding of the "Malicious" interpretation been better understood, he most likely would have made the correct call.
Which takes us back to one interpreting "carelessly throwing the bat".
I have seen a bat being thrown at a pitch and have never been able to differentiate if the batter lunged and then the bat slipped from his hands or if he purposely was throwing the bat. Which in my mind does not fit the rule you cited.
So in that case, because it does not fit the rule, and as you stated there is "not a given definition for carelessly throwing the bat", how can you judge that because it ended up next to the fence, it was "careless". And because YOU, have judged that interpretation to be the correct one, how are you any different than my partner was?
Which you have already stated as being "wrong". Thats my point.