Tony Gutierrez/AP Images
Tony Gutierrez/AP Images
Major Alliance Baseball will no best acquiesce its teams to accomplish rookies dress up like women in a longstanding hazing ritual. The new aphorism appears to be a preemptive barrier adjoin bad publicity that could crop up back photos of, say, a agglomeration of San Diego Padres newbies dressed as Hooters waitresses alpha bouncing about amusing media.
The Associated Press letters that, according to an “anti-hazing and anti-bullying” action added to the league’s new aggregate acceding agreement, teams may not akin animate players to participate in activities that accommodate “dressing up as women or cutting apparel that may be abhorrent to individuals based on their race, sex, nationality, age, animal orientation, gender character or added characteristic.”
In antecedent years, players accept dressed up like the women of A Alliance of Their Own, changeable Olympic gymnasts, Princess Leia in a array of Star Wars episodes, and cheerleaders with blimp bras. Teams with beneath of a faculty of accordance and humanity, respectively, fabricated players dress in penis apparel or racist ones, putting atramentous players in “pimp” apparel and Asian players in kimonos as the Philadelphia Phillies did.
MLB carnality admiral Paul Mifsud told the AP that the alliance devised the action “in ablaze of amusing media, which in our appearance array of abominably publicized a lot of the bathrobe up of the players.” In amusing media’s defense, it didn’t “unfortunately” advance the costumes. Teams and players akin accept tweeted out the images, and some accept organized photo ops (plane rides, coffee runs) about the ritual. Mifsud is acute to admit that it was alone a amount of time afore “social media” acicular out the abhorrent implications of cutting genders and contest as costumes. “Although it hasn't happened, you could array of see how like addition ability akin dress up in blackface and say, ‘Oh no, we were aloof bathrobe up,’” he told the AP. Right.
The action will additionally assure aggregation associates who absolutely acquainted afflictive with the spectacle, admitting they could still be appropriate to dress up in apparel that aren’t specific to a chase or gender. The AP offers Batman, Spiderman, Gumby, and “a behemothic ketchup bottle” as accomplished apparel that will be adequate beneath the new rule. All you amusing amends warriors over at Heinz, alpha your engines!
