Altered Bat? You make this call (or do you?).

[nc452010]

Dave:

You're (IMO) on a slippery slope with that one. I say that, with total respect (I hate the internet for such correspondence). As I told my friend, you're being judge, jury and executioner.....with your "feel" as your only source of "evidence".

I also asked....."Would you support your most junior umpire who made the same call....under the same circumstances"?

See where I'm going? Where does it end? I see this like I see a lot of TV crime shows. It's one thing to know in your heart someone's guilty of a crime. It's another thing to prove it. In the criminal justice system, that's required. In the case of a shaved bat......is it not?