Equipment Questions

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Originally Posted by wadeintothem

It is not to address warm up or other practice equipment which is not dangerous. Some teams use the heavy warm up bats to warm up, others buy the adjustable weighted bats. There are no problems with these IMO. If someone comes to bat with their adjustable weight warm up stick.. enforce the penalty.. otherwise chill out.

Really? Then why does ASA dedicate a paragragh to the Warm Up Bat?

It IS as safety issue and if you, as the umpire, do not enforce the rule and an individual is harmed by an unapproved warm-up bat, attachment or homemade device, one of the first things you will receive from legal representation provided by ASA will be a note suggesting you consider hiring a personal attorney. This is because the insurance will only cover so much and that attorney will worry about protecting ASA's concern, not how any excess punitive awards will affect you or your family.

Liability litigation is a monster and it just isn't worth testing a $5mm liability coverage because you don't want to be the bad guy with the players.