legal warm-up bat per NF 1-3-3

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Originally Posted by jkumpire

SA,
Look, we all know FED writes the rules so that FED and affiliates don;t get sued.
But if it is a safety rule, we have to enforce it

Ah nuts. I never knew or even heard of anybody who ever had any trouble using a baseball donut the way it was meant to be used. Smokeless tobacco, yes, a baseball donut, NO. Have you seen or used the long contraptions that have replaced the traditional batting donut? I never swung a metal pipe until I played MSBL and now I rather swing the pipe than use the donut replacement on my aluminum bats. Something must have went terribly wrong, but I doubt it.

Look, if some underage moron buys a donut larger than 2 and 1/4 inches in diameter and attaches it to a bat and swings the bat and the thing goes flying off the end and strikes somebody with such force that it results in ONE critical injury and ONE major lawsuit in over 100 and something years; I would NOT classify the use of a batting DONUT as a dangerous activity to vanished entirely from the game.

Edited to add: By the way, although I hate the rule, I do not allow the traditional donut to be used in the ballpark.