Any hockey fans here?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

I'm only partly kidding on the batter being allowed reprisal, the ability to throw a bat endwise with accurate force would be useful. Better would be a "designated" player ejection for a pitcher striking a batter with the choice of the ejected player by the team at bat.

So brushing a batter back should be illegal? Because any time one's intent is to throw a brushback pitch, there's a chance the batter is gonna get plunked.

But if it's gonna be left to the team at bat whether the opposition's pitcher (or their best hitter or their vaccum cleaner third baseman) stays in the game or not...you'll start to see hijinks in the batter's box that make all that phony thrashing around on the soccer field look downright legitimate.

Maybe instead of a designated hitter, we have a designated stunt man, who goes out there to make getting hit it look really bad.