Ladies: Don't Wear Skirts to Comerica Park - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

I remember when I was in junior high and I was starting to notice how the girls in my class were becoming less of an annoyance and more an object of my attention. Make no mistake about it, it wasn't because anything they were saying was becoming more interesting, it was that certain parts of their bodies were becoming more interesting. Things that hadn't been there before.

I can even pinpoint the moment when it all happened. I remember standing in front of my class giving a speech on some book we had to read when one of the more "talented" girls in my class leaned over the side of her desk to get something from under her chair, exposing her cleavage to anyone who wanted a glance. I wanted that glance. I wanted it so bad that I completely froze mid-sentence to stare and lost all train of thought.

Why am I telling you all this? Mostly because I have no shame, but also because I wanted to let you ladies out there know that we men never grow out of this. Yeah, we learn how to deal with it a lot better than I did on that fateful morning, but we never stop doing it.

Just ask any of the ladies that have attended a Tigers game at Comerica Park lately.

Tigers photographers routinely shot inappropriate "soft core videos" of female fans at baseball games, a sexual harassment suit by Comerica Park's former scoreboard operator claims.

"We believe there is no merit to the allegations," Karen Cullen, spokeswoman for team owner Mike Ilitch, said Wednesday.

The videos were "freely and openly shown in the scoreboard area to all employees and supervisors on almost a regular basis," and are stored in a room behind the scoreboard, Reanen Maxwell of Beverly Hills says in her Wayne Circuit Court lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 22.

The "continued showing of the soft core videos" created a hostile work environment in violation of the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the suit claims. Maxwell is requesting damages in excess of $25,000 on each of four counts, plus at least that much in exemplary damages, costs and attorney fees.

Don't be fooled by the soft-core label, there was no late night Cinemax style action going on at the ballpark. There were just a lot of pervert cameramen walking around the stadium looking down ladies' shirts and up their skirts. While some could argue that these guys were doing the Lord's work, it's pretty understandable why women would get upset about it.

If you're a woman going to a Tigers game in the coming weeks, I'd suggest wearing jeans and a sweater until the dust settles. If you're going to a White Sox game, I suggest a short skirt and low-cut top. I won't look. I promise.

(Via SPORTSbyBROOKS)