New Basic Agreement to stiffen baseball dress code (espn.com)

Well I think the dress code should be adhered to - there should be some leeway if you don't want skin tight, crotch huggin, ass definin, jock revealin pants. Excuse me while i go take a cold shower... Edited for spellin errors.

[ September 22, 2002: Message edited by: copman ]

TIGHTER??? OK by me!!!

This dress code issue seems pretty trivial to me. Some of Sandy Alderson's comments were pretty amusing. Yeah, I'm sure Barry keeps 'em loose so he can beaned! That's it!

On the other hand, anything to tidy up Livan Hernandez's appearance is probably a good thing.

I can understand more form-fitting uniforms on batters, but who wants to see Boomer's every nook and cranny?

Pirates first baseman Kevin Young, who wears perhaps the baggiest pants in the majors, told Bloomberg that the sport may soon be filled with "robots."

In my opinion the "robot" look has been best realized in football. I love the tight pants, but above the waist one player is nearly indistinguishable from another. It needs to be that way, I realize, but it's one reason football has never really apppealed to me that much. Also the players tend to be big enormous hulks and they're just not my type. Please don't get all riled up. I accept that others find this body type very appealing.

"If you're a baseball player and an athlete, your uniform is like your suit," Young said. "If you like your clothes really tight, you should be able to wear them tight. And if you like them loose, you should be able to wear them loose."

Screw that Kevin. If you want the big bucks you can just put on those nice tight pants and strut your stuff.

They destroyed basketball when they let players wear these long baggy shorts. I haven't sat through a basketball game in nearly 20 years. Through the early '80's the game was played in hot pants and it was much more interesting. Like football players, basketball players are only going to appeal to some folks anyway. Most strike me as big goons. They need all the help they can get in the sex appeal department. Of course, I wouldn't kick Rick Fox out of bed.

Hockey. 'Nuf said.

Bottom line - baseball has more sex appeal than all of the othe major sports combined. It's good to see MLB making an effort to keep it that way.

I won't complain about tighter pants... ...but this bugs me more:

[quote]Two years ago, MLB also set restrictions on the sizes for protective elbow pads, like the ones Bonds and Biggio wear. However, players can go over the size limit if they prove a prior injury exists (as Bonds has done).

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To me, if you had a prior injury but it's healed, the big pads should come off. I think Bonds gets a MAJOR advantage wearing that big pad on his elbow.

[quote]Originally posted by Joe in Philly:
To me, if you had a prior injury but it's healed, the big pads should come off. I think Bonds gets a MAJOR advantage wearing that big pad on his elbow.[/QB]

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You're absolutely right, Joe....the "injury" excuse that Bonds continues to use in an attempt to justify his "right" to wear the equivalent of football shoulder pads on his elbow is an absolute joke!....while I applaud MLB for making a sensible decision on the ridiculously long uniform pants worn by Manny Ramirez, Bonds, and company (Selig must have been out of town when the exec offices in NYC came up with a reasonable idea for a change) when will they quit making an exception for Bonds regarding the "armor" on his elbow that no other player is allowed to wear?....or is this another case of one of their "superstar" athletes being allowed to break the rules and go unpunished due to his "elite" status?