Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: The Last Word on Brett and the Bat Message-ID: <2091@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 21:28:24 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.2091 Posted: Tue Aug 2 21:28:24 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 05:00:33 EDT References: <487@houxm.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 15 It WAS the Yankees who read the rules. You (and Lee MacPhail) obviously have not. The rules say that (1) an illegal bat shall be thrown out and (2) any player using an illegal bat shall be called/thrown out (they are two SEPARATE rules!) The rules also CLEARLY define an illegal bat, and the definition INCLUDES *ANY* substance (including pine tar) more than 18 inches from the base of the bat. Brett's bat had pine tar 22 inches up; are you saying that that's not an illegal bat? As for the 'you Yankee people' remark, anyone who seriously believes that only Yankee lovers think the Yankees were right is blinded by their own hatred. Last night, on nationwide network television, Earl Weaver himself said that he thought the Yankees were right and he went on record saying that MacPhail was wrong.