This is the crap we will wear Friday
to celebrate Fenway Park's 100th anniversary.
That's right: They'll celebrate by turning Fenway into a fashion runway.
The teams will model hot new retro designs, like catwalking Kardashians. And you can buy them online! Frankly, these are nothing like the duds worn by the NY Highlanders in 1912. These are jersey equivalents of the fake antiques in Applebees. It's a marriage of the fashion and sports industries, which the world needed about as much as North Korea and the nuclear bomb. When did baseball become a shoot for Vogue? I respect that Fenway is 100, and as much as I loathe the Redsocks, Boston fans, Bobby V and teacher's pet Dustin Pedroia, I like their clam chowder and cream pie. I say, let the Redsocks wear whatever they want, thongs and pasties, if they like. But there is no reason why we should take off their clothes. Will the Seattle Mariners revert to their 1912 duds? If so, they'll play barefoot.
The worst part is how it's so sinister, so conniving, and so intent on squeezing a few more thin dimes from the already plasma-thinned fan base. This is what happens when you pay the Commissioner $25 million a year: Management becomes obsessed with sucking the cow until the udders bleed.
Listen: I am not trying to be some insufferable purist - you know, playing the Bob Costas card and weeping for the integrity of the game. I just hate the way MLB always looks to create new revenue streams at the expense of the sport. How much more money can they squeeze from us?
http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.asp?fileName=al_1912_newyork.gif&Entryid=194
ReplyDeleteWill they also wear the red and blue stirrup socks?
P.U. I smell Randy Levine's involvement.
ReplyDeleteAlso this:
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/yankees-linked-donation-to-scott-brown-draws-bronx-cheer/