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he had no idea who was in the costume and what part of the body he'd be hitting and what kind of damage it might do.

How does one normally swing a bat? Level, but his swing was way high, very unusual and thus very intentional. I think he was quite confident she/he/it inside was not 8+ feet tall, which she/he/it would have needed to have been for the bat to connect with any body part(after coming through all that foam). This wasn't a blow to the head or torso, but a blow to a foam hat, and the swing was slow.

Like I said, it wasn't the brightest of pranks, but it is being way overblown.

I didn't saw it wasn't intentional, I said it was STUPID. So he tried not to hit the person inside, BFD, so he got lucky and succeeded, BFD. It was still amazingly stupid and he should have known better.

Not even close to being blown out of proportion. Somebody does something this stupid it should be the talk of his sport for the next day. If we're still yacking about it monday then it's blown out of proportion. 24 to 48 hours of shame and ridicule is right in line with it. He should feel like a moron because he acted like a moron.