Hoodie and the blow. Fish.
Baseball’s fashion police have raided Joe Maddon’s hood.
The Tampa Bay Rays manager has been told by Major League Baseball that he can no longer wear his favorite hoodie. Maddon likes to put on the pullover during cold days at the ballpark, but MLB said it’s not approved for use during games.
Baseball reissued a memo last Friday saying managers and coaches could only wear jerseys or outerwear OKed by MLB.
Maddon, whose Rays will host the White Sox on Tuesday, wore the pullover during the weekend at Fenway Park.
“The thing is we’ve been doing it for several years now and they’ve really cleaned them up,” he said Monday after the Rays completed a four-game sweep of the Red Sox with an 8-2 win.
“There was a time where they first did it, it was more of—the quality was less. The quality has been raised, it’s more of a shiny kind of material now that I know presents well. I’ve seen them on TV, it presents really well. I have no idea why this is happening. For me, it’s just a comfortable thing. I’ve always worn hoodies,” he said.
...“Go back to your collegiate days, I did a lot of football—I don’t know if they think it looks too football-ish. I have no idea,” he said. “All I know is that it’s a comfortable piece of clothing, I think it’s attractive, if you’re looking for younger fan, I think those are the people that really are attracted to something like that, too. Listen, I will state my case because I think I can, but I will follow the rules, too.”
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Posted: April 20, 2010 at 12:33 AM |
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1. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: April 20, 2010 at 01:40 AM (#3508116)If I were Maddon, I'd just wear the hoodie under the jersey, see what they think about that.
Personally, I think all managers should dress in suits and ties and sit in rocking chairs in the corner of the dugout.
And straw hats.
And position their fielders with scorecards.
DB
And Shotguns
"Where's the clubhouse?"
*cocks shotgun*
"It's right back the way you came."
Wait, what are we talking about?
Especially with that hairdo Maddon was rocking in 2008.
So MLB is thinking of the children?
Gilbert Arenas is pretty much a big child, right?
This is a pretty ridiculous ruling by MLB.
That is all.
Yup.
Another name joins my (already extremely long) List of People to Kill.
Isn't it just a damn sweatshirt?
When did they change the name? I thought it was a sweatshirt. People started calling them hoodies, and I'm still confused.
(Not that I've worn any sort of hood since I was about, I dunno, 7 years old ... mainly because I'm no longer 7 years old.)
-someone who had to see Jack McKeon in a ballplayer's uniform for too many years
When Mike Nolan coached the 49ers, he fought tooth and nail with the NFL to allow him to wear a suit and tie on the sidelines, but was rebuffed because the NFL required coaches to wear only Reebok clothing on the sideline. In 2006, he finally got them to allow him to wear a suit for two games, but the suit had to be designed and made by Reebok. In 2007, he was allowed to wear a suit for all home games. Didn't help though - he got fired the next year...
If I was allowed to unilaterally change one thing in baseball it would be a requirement for managers to wear suits and ties.
It would be the second thing I would change. The first would be a permanent ban of the Yankees.
The problem is, once we get them out of the uniforms, most of them would end up sliding and then they'd all eventually look like Huggins, Belichek, and my great-uncle Geno, all of whom dress exactly and horribly alike.
Mancini has to be the most stylish manager/coach in a major sport I've ever seen.
I loved that. The league did its damnedest to prevent Nolan from looking sharp on the sideline, but has no problem with Belichick dressing like a hobo.
Fedoras in spring and fall, boaters in the summer.
*As should cats**
**Also with, I feel rather strongly, monocles
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