I've never understood why baseball managers and coaches are forced to wear uniforms in the dugout. Can you imagine Bill Parcells roaming the sideline in up plays wearing football pads? Or Phil Jackson drawing up basketball plays in shorts and a tank top? Of course not. So why is baseball any different?I'm not sure we'll ever get the answer to that question, but at least we know how serious Major League Baseball is policing this issue. From the Boston Globe:
Red Sox manager Terry Francona was peeved this morning that a (major league baseball) security person made him show that he was wearing his uniform top in the second inning of Wednesday night's game with Derek Jeter at second base.Granted, I'd be a little more sympathetic to Francona's situation if he was trying to go for Connie Mack's elegance instead of Bill Belichick's slob fashion, but still, how does this affect the game? And more importantly, why is this so urgent it needs to be addressed in the middle of a game?
"That was as embarrassed as I've been in a long time for baseball," Francona said at his pregame press conference today.
[...] "The timing to me was incredible," Francona said. "He made me show him. I thought Jeter was going to steal third." Francona said that the exchange caused him to miss one pitch.
[...] At one point Francona said he told the security person, "Can you wait a second?" The security person said, "No."
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8-30-2007 @ 2:53PM
Bill said...
Only in New York. The writer is correct how is it affecting the game. Why couldn't they wait till between innings.
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8-30-2007 @ 3:02PM
MJBUtah said...
I thought that they had to wear the uniform because managers and coaches are allowed to enter the field of play during the game.
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8-30-2007 @ 5:47PM
Michael Kudisch said...
Francona wears the pullover due to circulation issues from past medical problems--he always feels cold, even in 90 degree heat.
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8-31-2007 @ 12:34AM
john said...
As much as I hate the ded Sox, I am a Terry Francona fan and if that ashle came into my dugout during any game I was trying to manage, I would've had a Louisville slugger halfway up his ass. Leave Francona alone. His pullover is sanctioned by the players union and he wears it for circulation problems ....Watson is such an arrogant jackass....
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8-31-2007 @ 2:07AM
George B Vieto said...
It was the crossing the line by the fashion police to bother Terry Francona with this petty uniform issue.
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