Should professional baseball players wear knee-length

Tag : night dresse

A poll of today's major league baseball players will reveal thatmost of their mommies tucked them in at night dressed in "jammies"with feet. That's the origin of their fetish for wearing baggypants nearly covering their spikes. And oddly enough, the creatorof this fashion trend is Mr. Perjury himself, Barry Bonds, the Homerun King.
Now everyone knows that Michael Jordan, Mr. Basketball, transformedNBA fashion in the 90's, replacing the speedo shorts of the MagicJohnson, Larry Bird era with the baggy, show nearly no leg shortsof today.
And Barry, feeling pressured in the early 2000's to set some sortof fashion trend himself as Mr. Baseball in America, shaved hishead like Michael and combined Michael's baggy uniform look withhis Mommy's early jammie purchases, going with what he felt mostcomfortable wearing as he lay in bed at night.
Ultimately he brought his jammie bottoms along with him to what wasthen Pac Bell Park and gave them to the tailor of his San FranciscoGiant uniform to copy.
The new style was picked up quickly by other major leaguers simplybecause it's normal for them to want to dress like the game'sgreatest player. And too, it felt so very natural, especially whenit came to night games, because that's how their mommies had alwaysdressed them before they went to bed.
Now Barry, controversial in most everything he does, was nodifferent when it came to setting this new trend and it was aparticularly difficult one for some baseball's major executives toaccept, especially the owners of the Boston Red Sox who's veryexistence, image and name is based upon that which covers theirplayers calves.
For awhile they feared that they might have to change the name oftheir team were this trend to continue but fortunately their formerfirst baseman, Kevin Millar, came to the rescue and talked the restof his teammates into "showing some sock" as they battled for the2004 World Series title.
I personally find it very difficult to take seriously anyone whowears jammie bottoms on a baseball field and tend to rootespecially hard for those who style their uniform after the playersof the forties and fifties. Especially Juan Pierre of the Dodgerswho's uniform style varies not at all from that which was worn bythe great Jackie Robinson.
I also think the jammie look takes away from the overall beauty ofmany team's uniforms, most notably the St. Louis Cardinals, the oldBaltimore Orioles, the Oakland Athletics, and the PittsburghPirates, as did the single stripe sock worn in the 1980's and stillworn by Greg Maddux today.
I'm simply hoping that the trend doesn't spread back to basketballwhere players might simply quit taking off their warm up pants oncethe game begins. And to horse racing where flopping pants worn bythe jockeys might slow down the times of our fastest race horses.
Thus I'd like to make a request to the Major League BaseballPlayers Association that they bring the socks backs to baseball.Obviously the inventors of the game had a reason for including themin the first place. So let's just assume that they knew somethingthat Barry didn't.