[IISnakE]

Well Alfus, you know I agree with you on this, but just for the sake of discussion let me ask this. (situation: your child is in the dugout without a guard of some sort. They are sitting there minding their own business watching the game, someone in a split second yells your child's name and they look around.[split second distraction: perhaps to have their cap tossed to them or a bottle of water tossed their way to hand to another player... who knows] but in the split second a ball is hit and it's a shot straight into the dugout, like the same one I saw @ Pikeville... and your child is hit. It's an accident plain and simple, but if your child is hit and seriously injured, how would you feel then? I was going to ask who would be responsible, but that's not the issue on this one but it would certainly come up.)
[this sounds like a an ad on tv for a lawyer...lol]

I'm certainly not trying to "stir" anything up, just making a point that sometimes the stars are lined up in a fashion and things happen... why not take the initiative and do something to prevent such an occurance. Kids are kids and even though they should be paying attention at all times, should a serious injury have to happen to them to prove the point?