Oh, yes, it's obvious that 'Jarah', 'Ashley', 'Trey', and 'Erin' are just your run-of-the-mill 20-somethings. Nothing special to look at - their partners are obviously with them for their personalities and their depth of character.

their partners are obviously with them for their personalities and their depth of character.

Honestly, I would almost guarantee that that the women surpass the baseball players in these qualities.

their partners are obviously with them for their personalities and their depth of character.

Honestly, I would almost guarantee that that the women surpass the baseball players in these qualities.

This is pretty funny. Probably because it's true.

Isn't this article about how the Nats don't have any hot wives? And Belfry Bob must have zero game and a jealousy streak a mile wide, I've seen way hotter girls dating house painters. They all looked pretty standard for twenty something girlfriends/wives.

I too lead a life of maximum masculinity and would turn up my nose at any of these sorry excuses for arm candy.

I like these kinds of threads because there is always somebody that thinks the women in the picture are pretty ordinary.

What McCoy said, Arb. I was waiting for that comment, too. My wife's mom was a NY model, so she's got nice bloodlines in the looks department - I'm certainly not disappointed in her appearance. But to say those young ladies in the photo are 'ordinary' makes me think you didn't spend a lot of time in bars, malls, or anywhere else other than perhaps your imagination in your 20's. Or else the women in Richmond Virginia were extra ugly (I suppose that's possible.)

And I don't mean to tar the ladies with any stereotype brush....but , based on the excerpt, I was expecting something other than what looked like typical wives/girlfriends of pro athletes. They may indeed be all of high character and be whizzes at math.

I'm sure if the ladies in the picture were doing a spread for GQ, FHM, or Maxim their photos would look much much hotter than this rather candid photograph. Considering all the technology that goes into photoshoots I'd say that most people that we think are "hot" would look rather ordinary when you see them walking around in person.

Oh, yes, it's obvious that 'Jarah', 'Ashley', 'Trey', and 'Erin' are just your run-of-the-mill 20-somethings.

I love a well-used pair of quotes as much as anyone, but in this case I don't get it. Is there a reason to believe that the names listed in the article aren't their real names?

It's entertainingly easy to tell whether the MLBer met the wife before or after becoming a professional baseball player.
Before: generally quite normal-looking.
After: almost without exception, generic LA/NY "hot."

EDIT: very much agree with #8.

I'm sure if the ladies in the picture were doing a spread for GQ, FHM, or Maxim their photos would look much much hotter than this rather candid photograph. Considering all the technology that goes into photoshoots I'd say that most people that we think are "hot" would look rather ordinary when you see them walking around in person.

This. The vast majority of famous people we think of as "hot" are often shockingly ordinary looking when not professionally made up/photographed/airbrushed. They're still usually very attractive, but reality doesn't look much like an FHM or Maxim cover.

The vast majority of famous people we think of as "hot" are often shockingly ordinary looking when not professionally made up/photographed/airbrushed. They're still usually very attractive, but reality doesn't look much like an FHM or Maxim cover.

face, aren't you being a little condradictory? if someone is attractive, they are attractive. they aren't ordinary looking. but i'm pickng nits.
different publications have different agendas with their photography, so the photoshop work on women in maxim is going to be of a different order than that of say vanity fair, though a hell of a lot goes on there too. there was a long article a while back in the new yorker about how much photoshopping goes on in the magazines nowadays. i was surprised.
in newspapers its verboten to alter photos for almost anything but better contrast or brightness or more 'correct' skin tones.

i believe it was in that same article in the new yorker that the writer was thinking the same thing about models and such, that they were pretty ordinary looking outside the studio. but he found that that simply isn't true. up close the vast majority of them are very beautiful, even without makeup and designer clothes.

But they are a lot closer to being "ordinary" then "put them up on your wall and get a bottle of jurgens" level of hotness you usually see for them in photopgraphs.

As a living breathing human it is extremely hard to look very beautiful every millisecond of the day but for one millisecond for a camera it can be done and it can also be aided by other factors. Makeup, clothes, lighting, computers, so on and so on.

It's entertainingly easy to tell whether the MLBer met the wife before or after becoming a professional baseball player.
Before: generally quite normal-looking.
After: almost without exception, generic LA/NY "hot."

I don't know that I agree with this. The star athletes in my HS and college usually had pretty hot girlfriends.

I don't know that I agree with this. The star athletes in my HS and college usually had pretty hot girlfriends.

First, of course, it's a generalization.

Second, and perhaps more important, I'm talking about the girls these guys actually marry.

As a living breathing human it is extremely hard to look very beautiful every millisecond of the day but for one millisecond for a camera it can be done and it can also be aided by other factors. Makeup, clothes, lighting, computers, so on and so on.

As a living breathing human it is extremely hard to look very beautiful every millisecond of the day but for one millisecond for a camera it can be done and it can also be aided by other factors. Makeup, no clothes, lighting, computers, so on and so on.

face, aren't you being a little condradictory? if someone is attractive, they are attractive. they aren't ordinary looking. but i'm pickng nits.

If it'll help, think of it as "ordinarily hot", as in the type of hot chick you might see at your local drinking establishments. Odds are you see people all the time you think of as hot, but you probably don't think, "Man, she's right off the cover of Maxim!" Probably because virtually nobody actually looks like that.

I used to have a site bookmarked, long since lost, where a professional photographer had some side by sides of pre and post photoshopped model pics. The difference between the two was staggering, and went a LOT farther than smoothing out facial blemishes, etc.

If they wanted glitter, they should have kept their jobs as strippers.

As a living breathing human it is extremely hard to look very beautiful every millisecond of the day

Probably because virtually nobody actually looks like that.

well, i'm not trying to start anything but i live in L.A. and i work in media row on wilshire blvd., sort of a red hot center of an area where a lot of people vying for some sort of entree into the business are working and going to the gym and i can tell you there are no shortage of extremely hot women walking around at any hour of the day, in and out of makeup and sweats and i do mean put a pic on the wall and get the jurgens. i didn't think it was possible either, but i can't believe how much hotness i stand next to around here and i'm not even talking about celebs. YMMV.

As a living breathing human it is extremely hard to look very beautiful every millisecond of the day

It's even harder once you've stopped living and breathing.

I actually spend lots of time in bars now, the Nat's wives/girlfriends, while above average, aren't extraordinary. Any girl that needs hair and makeup to look beautiful isn't, she might be attractive, but the truly beautiful don't have to work very hard to dress it up.

And I don't mean to tar the ladies with any stereotype brush....but , based on the excerpt, I was expecting something other than what looked like typical wives/girlfriends of pro athletes.
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Oh, yes, it's obvious that 'Jarah', 'Ashley', 'Trey', and 'Erin' are just your run-of-the-mill 20-somethings.

You mean you didn't mean to stereotype just the ladies, you also wanted to tar their boyfriends and husbands as well.

Cause you didn't just imply they are bimbos because of how they looked, but because how they were named. I guess their boyfriends passed over many high quality life partner candidates simply because of their bland names, and were instead attracted like bees to pollen by girls with bimbo names. What foresightful parents, labeling their little girls at birth to ensure they'd grow up to be irresistible lures for professional athletes.

I mean, is Erin a stripper name now? I've frequented many a strip palace, but never encountered a Trey or Jarah, and only one Ashley.

Jarah

That name was chosen by the scrabble bag method, yeah?

It's even harder once you've stopped living and breathing.

Take it to the zombie thread.

Never will you find more pretentiousness than in a thread about the varying attractiveness levels of women.


We all have tastes. None of yours are any better than the next guy's.

Never will you find more pretentiousness than in a thread about the varying attractiveness levels of women.

Oh yes, look in the Olive Garden thread, everybody go to these wonderful small non-chain restaurants.

None of yours are any better than the next guy's.

what if the next guy has a thing for madeleine albright?

And I don't mean to tar the ladies with any stereotype brush....but , based on the excerpt, I was expecting something other than what looked like typical wives/girlfriends of pro athletes. They may indeed be all of high character and be whizzes at math.

The problem here is not that the wives appear to be vapid; it's that the article certainly is.

Oh, yes, it's obvious that 'Jarah', 'Ashley', 'Trey', and 'Erin' are just your run-of-the-mill 20-somethings.

"Ashley" was the fourth most common name for girls born in the 1980s. How much more "run-of-the-mill 20-something" do you want?

I know this because my last name is Ashley, and it seems like it went overnight from "something I have to spell all the time" to "something I have to explain is actually my last name all the time".

Oh, and "Erin" was the 28th most common name for girls born in the 1980s. Science!

It still blows my mind that Cole Hamels married HeiDDi from Survivor.

Looks are looks, but the girl's dumber than a bag of hair. How do you put up with that on a day-to-day basis?

It still blows my mind that Cole Hamels married HeiDDi from Survivor.

whoa. lots of nsfw pix of her on the intertubes.

It still blows my mind that Cole Hamels married HeiDDi from Survivor.

Looks are looks, but the girl's dumber than a bag of hair. How do you put up with that on a day-to-day basis?

Hamels might not be an intellectual sort, and an empty-headed reality star might be his type. Hamels and, I dunno, Cate Blanchett might not have much to talk about.