hm ... seems pretty quiet about this topic

Okay, once when I was a pitcher for softball --and, btw, the ball is not soft and it was fast pitch-- our team was warming up and my pitching coach was warming me up in the same area, and the head coach walked over and started talking to my pitching coach. Of course, it made me very nervous because I was sometimes pretty wild at pitching and didn't want to hit my head coach, so I kindly warned him that he might like to choose a different spot to be. He shrugged me off and went about talking with my pitching coach, not really paying attention. What do you know happened? Yep, I nailed him. Not on purpose, of course, but right where it counts. Not my fault! Well, okay, the team went into a different activity at that point while my coach perhaps gained composure.
Real pain? Perhaps. More pain than the times I hit batters in various other places? Perhaps.