Pedro Strop's hat

[atomic]

The point stands that you made a poor analogy trying to compare baseball players to CEOs. If we're talking CEOs, look to Bud Selig. He hasn't cracked down on the hats, so your issue is with Bud Selig.

You are right about that. I don't get baseball at all. You have teams that are super concerned about the players appearance to the point of being overly controlling. I don't know how the union doesn't go after the yankees on their hair policies. Yet you have team like the orioles where guys have crooked hats and guys are wearing their uniforms different ways. It is like the league just lets the teams do whatever they want.

[OFFNY]

PEDRO STROP O (vs. D-RAYS, 4/16)

IP:. 0.67 - Plus *

H:o 2

R:O 3

BB: 1

SO: 1

Pitches: 22 (11 Strikes, 11 Balls)

2013 ERA: 10.80

* Strop did not retire any batters in the 8th inning before departing.

OO. ......... As I attempt to redirect you all back to Page 3, and Pedro Strop's crappy outing last night.

[atomic]

They're running around like mad men! God help us! SIDEWAYS CAPS! AHHHH

well the different way of wearing socks as well.

[DrungoHazewood]

The point stands that you made a poor analogy trying to compare baseball players to CEOs. If we're talking CEOs, look to Bud Selig. He hasn't cracked down on the hats, so your issue is with Bud Selig.

Oh how Bud disrespects the game by dressing and acting like a two-bit used car salesman.

[waroriole]

Different ways of wearing socks! Baseball players are doing whatever they want! It's pandemonium!

I saw Adam Jones with sunflower seeds, but McLouth didn't have any. I demand UNIFORMITY!!!!!!!

[atomic]

Different ways of wearing socks! Baseball players are doing whatever they want! It's pandemonium!

Well you could just have everyone wear what they want. Perhaps even a basketball teams uniform. Maybe take their shirts off if they get too hot.

I think it looks bad when different members of the team dress differently. I guess there is a reason the NBA makes players wear suits when traveling. Which is the other extreme.

[Mr Snuffleupagus]

One, only one?

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[Mayor McCheese]

I'd kill to have Mark Cuban own the Orioles, and he often looks like he just rolled out of bed to go to WalMart.

hah too bad MLB would never ever allow him to own or have ownership in an MLB franchise.

[DrungoHazewood]

Well you could just have everyone wear what they want. Perhaps even a basketball teams uniform. Maybe take their shirts off if they get too hot.

I think it looks bad when different members of the team dress differently. I guess there is a reason the NBA makes players wear suits when traveling. Which is the other extreme.

I demand they go back to the practices of the first half of the 1882 season, where players wore color-coded silk jerseys for each position. Teams were differentiated by their sock color, but all shortstops wore maroon silk shirts, second basemen orange and black stripes, pitchers light blue, etc. I'm all for rigidly mandated and enforced individuality.

Edit: Also note that link refers to ballplayers usually wearing bowties. I think to bring propriety and respect back into our debauched wasteland that might be an idea to consider.

[DrungoHazewood]

Well you could just have everyone wear what they want. Perhaps even a basketball teams uniform. Maybe take their shirts off if they get too hot.

I think it looks bad when different members of the team dress differently. I guess there is a reason the NBA makes players wear suits when traveling. Which is the other extreme.

Oh, and again with the domino theory. It does NOT follow that because you allow A, and maybe B, that C through X, Y, Z, and (tilde + ess-tset) will naturally follow and chaos will ensue. Vietnam fell, and yet the darned communists didn't take over the world.

[ledzepp8]

No I am not bigoted. I couldn't care less about his style. He could have dread locks down to his knees and facial tattoos and I wouldn't mind.

It is the uniform. He should wear it correctly. I don't care how he dresses when he isn't on the field. And all the Orioles should wear their uniform the same way. It is part of being a member of the team.

I have standards of dress at work and no one even sees me. I am not allowed to even wear a baseball cap to work. Is my company bigotted?

You see the point is that if you just say stuff like this, it's fine. It's your opinion on professionalism. When you insinuate that he's trying to be a thug and/or he's only doing it because he's from a ghetto background, you sound like Archie Bunker...only way less lovable.

And it's awesome that your work has a dress code, most jobs do. But does your boss tell you to cool it with your ghetto street thug act when you come in wearing a pratt knot instead of a windsor?

[ledzepp8]

And that is exactly why standards are needed. There is a reason for them. Appearance matters. What other people think about you based on how you present yourself matters. If someone wants to dress or act like a loser than non losers will look at that loser appearance and associate it with losers. Others will come to the defense of the loser looking guy and try to justify the loser association as they explain how he isnt really a loser.

If you want to be associated with losers and the like dress like them. If you want to be respected dress and act like it. Give people a reason to respect you. Present yourself in a worthy fashion.

You probably rue the day that gentleman stopped wearing three piece suits from sunrise to sunset 7 days/week...don't you?

So its bigoted for one to approve of decency? And its bigoted for one to expect a professional to act professional?

Ok, got it.

No it's bigoted when you assume that a man is from the ghetto and has a thug mentality due to the direction of the bill of his hat. Do you also assume that everyone that wears baggy pants and oversized shirts is a drug dealer?

[ledzepp8]

Backwards to you = reality in the real world.

How many CEO's do you see wearing crooked tilted ball caps? There is a reason for that. How you present yourself matters. And it matters to far more people than just me.

Try again bro.

So men that play a child's game are comparable to CEOs? Does it get lonely up in your ivory tower?

[MagicBird]

For all you crooked hat lovers and defenders, why dont you put your sport jacket on with the buttons and opening in the back?

Or maybe wear your shirt with the buttons on the back and your tie on the back?

Maybe put your pants on with the zipper in the back so you have easy access to your crack?

Make a personal expression in fashion. There would be absolutely nothing wrong with that! It makes no difference how the clothing item is designed to be worn. There would be nothing ridiculous about it if you decided to wear all your clothes on backwards, would it?

[tilgaham]

I don't give a darn how Pedro wears his hat, but if he pitches like he did last night again, we've got to put him in the Kevin Gregg role for a while. He almost lost us that game