Tag Archive | MLB
Pink Bats: Not Just About Breast Cancer Anymore
On Friday I wrote about pinkwashing in baseball, but I want to take a minute to address the argument that it’s good because it raises money for breast cancer awareness and research. Cancer is serious and sad and horrible. My mom survived breast cancer. For a 28 year old, I probably know an above average [...]
Boston Strong
My first reaction, upon hearing of the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, was this: “marathoners are the strongest people I know. Thinking of you, Boston, as I am always.” Then I looked at the time during the race: 4:09. Four hours and nine minutes of running. I can’t run a marathon [...]
We’ll say it again – IT’S OPENING DAY!!!!
Baseball is FINALLY here, the long cold winter months are over, and happiness simply does not describe how we feel. Because in baseball, things like this happen: And things like this happen: Thank you Earth, for turning on your axis and rotating around the sun so that Opening Day can come and baseball can be [...]
MLB Fan Cave Dwellers Move Toward Gender Parity
It’s Opening Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And with it, our first baseball post of the 2013 season: About a week ago, and for the third year in a row, the MLB Fan Cave announced its group of Cave Dwellers. Cave Dwellers basically get to put their normal lives on hold for 6 months, hang out at the Fan Cave [...]
Why Would I Wear This?!: “I Came to the Baseball Game to Seduce Boys” Edition
Today I learned that all of the items below exist and I need to share with you. You’ll note that the items are almost exclusively part of the Victoria’s Secret PINK line being sold by Major League Baseball. The theme here is not that the buyer/wearer came to watch baseball, but instead that they are [...]
White Guy, White Guy, White Guy…
In case anyone was wondering why some women feel intimidated when trying to break into sportswriting, please see the email I received earlier this month from MLB regarding the upcoming SABR Analytics Conference: Given the years of discrimination against female participants in baseball (players, writers, managers and otherwise), this isn’t surprising. But if MLB and [...]
MLB Dress Code Update: One Season In
At the beginning of the MLB baseball season this year, we discussed the new dress code for reporters that was instituted by MLB for press rooms and all premises reporting work. At the time, we wondered whether the rules were just a way for the paternalistic, male-centric MLB to “save” female journalists from themselves. It was [...]
ESPN The Magazine’s Political Survey
In its most recent issue, ESPN The Magazine conducted an anonymous survey of players across the four big sports about various political issues. At the outset, I don’t think sports and politics should mix, but obviously athletes have lives beyond their jobs, and I don’t fault them for using their fame to advance their beliefs and values. [...]
Female Athletic Trainers Making Headway in Baseball
There was a fantastic article published a few weeks back by WHPTV, written by Jason Bristol, discussing the prevalence of female athletic trainers in baseball’s independent Atlantic League (not affiliated with Major League Baseball.) Discussing the difference, Bristol points out: The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) believes there are two female head athletic trainers [...]
Yunel Escobar: Yikes, But a Teachable Moment
On Saturday during a day game between the Blue Jays and the Red Sox, Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar took the field with the phrase “Tu ere maricon” written in his eyeblack. “Tu ere maricon,” as many have reported, means “you are [a] faggot.” I don’t think I have to say much about the phrase itself. I’ll [...]
