MLB Dress Code?

Oh, wow, Charlie. I hadn't realized we were getting taken down by The Man.

His great writing style sometimes gets overshadowed by his reactionary stances.

 

Did Pierce blame Bush?

 

Every piece he's written for Grantland has been from an "everyone is an idiot but me" viewpoint. I know he's a God around this place, and maybe that's his schtick, but I think it sucks.

 

"If they can do this, what, precisely, can't they do? Can they regulate what is discussed in the press box? (They already regulate the volume, as I discovered that day in Fenway.) I know people with Amnesty International stickers on their laptops. Can MLB make a rule on exactly which mute political statements can be made within the confines of the ballpark?"

Yes.

Yes.

See Azrael's posts on this thread.

Besides, the "slippery slope" argument is usually logically fallacious.

Your liberalism is safe in the press box for now, Mr. Pierce.

 

Without going into further detail, I don't think that's true any more. I will note that once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, he posted here a few times under his own name. That might have been before the crash, though. That's typically a ticket to board reverence, as was pointed out on a Pearlman thread after Jeff showed up to defend his Payton book. And maybe it should be to a degree, as there is a certain man-of-the-people quality displayed in such gestures.

I did like his piece on the tiny Hmong football players in Sports Illustrated this week.

Pierce is cut from the same cloth as Keith Olbermann and Newt Gingrich. Erudite guys always attempting to marshal history for the sake of advancing their particular worldview.

 

I said earlier this was a waste of time, but after watching the Pujols signing on mlb.tv, I changed my mind. Lyle Spencer wore his official licensed Kurt Cobain replica plaid shirt unbuttoned and about five sizes too big, and there was some local TV guy in his Rob Ryan fright wig and a bright yellow T-shirt with the message, "See, the mustard doesn't show!" on it.

 

I've never met Mr. Spencer and wouldn't know him from Adam.

I do know that this would be quite a trick for some of our brethren in the business.

 

He's fundamentally correct, especially about the complicity of the utterly worthless BBWAA.

 

None of those descriptions would qualify as banned clothing. This is almost entirely about attractive women wearing short skirts.

 

Everybody should dress professionally, like it's a job, not as if going to a nightclub.

 

The people being paid the most wear glorified pajamas.

 

Bill Madden reveals the secret agenda in Sunday's column:

<i>...the columnist condemned the writers for supposedly being more interested in enacting the new “no flip flops, short shorts, miniskirts or spiked heels” clubhouse dress code for the media announced by MLB at the winter meetings. To set the record straight, it was MLB who moved to eliminate the slovenly and (dare we say) <b>slutty</b> clubhouse attire by some of the media and, in drawing up the new guidelines, the league asked the writers for their input when they didn’t have to.</i>

Damn sluts.

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