Friday, January 12, 2007
Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd...
...and while you're at it a couple of dogs, and maybe a pizza, and a burrito, and a pulled pork sandwich, and some of those nachos, and a corn dog, and a big plastic baseball hat full of ice cream, and...
My corruption of this sweet tune from a simpler time is inspired by a recent post by Sports Prof on what would have to be considered a controversial development for Major League Baseball.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are offering all you can eat seats. For a fixed fee, fans can get all the hot dogs, sodas, peanuts and popcorn they can eat. Beer, ice cream and candy are extra. This is just what America needs -- encouraging an already overweight population to stuff themselves silly. Obesity and the myriad number of healthy problems that accompany it is upon us already. What are the Dodgers thinking?Meanwhile, this announcement was made less than two weeks ago:
This reminds me of a story regarding baseball and the overarching allegation that baseball players just aren't in the same shape as football or basketball players are. Years ago, when he was with the Phillies, a 70 year-old woman sitting near the dugout caught John Kruk taking a drag on a cigarette.
The woman caught Kruk's eye and admonished him: "You should be ashamed of yourself. You're a professional athlete."
To which Kruk replied, "Lady, I ain't an athlete. I'm a baseball player."
(read the whole thing)
California Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Cathedral City, proposed a bill today that seeks to ban trans fats in baked and fried foods in restaurants and school cafeterias throughout the state.
Though the proposed bill is not as comprehensive as the trans fat ban passed earlier this month in New York City -- where trans fats in all restaurant foods are now banned -- it seeks to limit the amount of heart attack- and stroke-inducing fats in restaurant and school foods.
Garcia said lawmakers in California -- where legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have named health care the top issue in 2007 -- should take her bill seriously. If passed, the bill would place enforcement responsibilities on the state's 58 county health departments.
As far as I know, the LA County Health Department has not yet weighed in on the Dodgers new promotion, but something has got to give.
5 Comments:
By 
Cardinalpark, at
Fri Jan 12, 02:03:00 PM:
The St. Louis Blues are running a food giveaway this Saturday during their nationally televised hockey game on NBC agaisnt the Kings. So the Dodgers aren't the only ones using food as a fan magnet...:)
By 
, at
Fri Jan 12, 03:37:00 PM:
nothing brings the fans to the ballpark in philly like dollar-dog night. Very popular with the impecunious grad student crowd, of which I am a member.
By spd rdr, at
Fri Jan 12, 05:19:00 PM:
Thank God for baseball stories in January!
I've always felt that managers deserved a special place in heaven for having to walk out to the mound before 35,000 people and take the ball from a home town favorite while being sixty years old and 45 pounds overweight and wearing the same outfit he did when he was nine years old.
True grit.
By Dawnfire82, at
Fri Jan 12, 06:16:00 PM:
NSA listening to international phone conversations with known terrorists? Fascist police state.
Making it illegal for me to eat fucking animal crackers (which my personal trainer sister in law informed last week is full of 'transfats'), ok and actually desirable.
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By , at
Fri Jan 12, 11:50:00 PM:
Before you know it some wheatgerm inhaling heath freaks will be demanding we ban RONALD McDONALD and replace him with some stupid idea lke WHEATGERMAN
