Baseball used to be alot Cooler
To get you ready for the World Series starting tonight (although I'll probably be watching the Knicks Season Opener) comes this story from the NYTIMES. The Yankees have started a tradition of pieing a player in the face when they have a walk off homer at Yankee stadium. Posada describes it as such. "Boom him in the face." But not everyone thinks this tradition is the bee's knees:
Jim Bouton, the former major league pitcher and author of the 1970 tell-all book “Ball Four,” said there was a time when teammates would celebrate a hitter’s latest homer by sending a fake telegram saying the team had just released him.
He does not think much of the pie craze.
“In my day, they had more creative ways to sort of celebrate,” said Mr. Bouton, 70. “Pieing would have been silly, kids’ stuff. We would put a live snake in a guy’s underwear. That is something that real men would do. This is silly stuff, you know what I mean? It’s kid stuff. The guys today, they’re inexperienced.”
Would they put the snake in the players underwear when they were wearing it or what?
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