acceptable or just weird

He had a great segment on his show a week or so back on just this topic. A few highlights:

“If you’re old enough to drink beer, you’re too old to bring your glove”

“Bringing a glove to a game is like bringing your older brother on a date—you need all the help you can get because you’re a bit pathetic”

“Only Cubs fans should bring gloves to games—no other fans have that much false hope”

the last one is definitely my favorite—I think it was called in by a Brewers fan.

but then again, i bring a scorebook and clipboard to every game, so maybe i shouldn’t judge…

The girl said It’s okay. Being that I don’t care what the guys think about me. Only what the girls think about me… It’s okay.

if I can’t bare hand it or snag it with my cap I got no business catching it.

Something just doesn’t look right when anyone over the age of 15 is wearing a glove in the stands.

Got a ball from Joel this year, and I get balls for nearby kids around 3 to 4 times a year out of around 8 to 10 games. Nothing wrong with bringing a glove. I always attend BP and sometimes I sit in foul territory. My gal would murder me if I let a ball hit her.

So that’s two women who approve of the glove at the park.

I always bring a glove. I go to BP before each game in hopes of catching a practice home run. I caught one from Duncan a couple of years that stung my hand. Franklin threw me a ball last year and Ray King tried to throw me a ball until some punk-ass kid ran right in front of me and caught it. After I caught a home run ball, I always bring my glove if I’m sitting in the outfield stands. So, anyway, I had a couple of experiences that make me always bring my glove to a game….and I’m 27.

I took my dad to a game last season. We were sitting straight back from the plate in one of the last rows of the lower deck (got the tickets from a rich friend, I cannot personally afford those). I went to the bathroom and got back like two pitches into an inning. Turns out my dad had a pop up come literally right at him, but he had 9 dollars worth of Bud in one hand and a bag of peanuts in the other. He told me he would rather have the beer and the peanuts than the ball, so he let the guy right behind reach over his bald head and take the ball. I was so pissed at him…

...but then again it was a 9 dollar beer.

that if you have played baseball on a field with 90 ft between bases, you shouldn’t bring a glove to the game.

For those of you who are saying it is protection, you need to just use your bare hands or your body. It’s not a bullet, it’s a baseball. It will heal.

After further thought, I would allow a surgeon to use a glove, since a hand injury could cause complications and place other people’s lives at stake.

And on another note, I can’t recall ever making fun of anyone for having hurt their hand when trying to catch a foul ball barehanded. I do recall making fun of someone for catching a foul ball with a glove on and then complaining about how it stung your hand. Suck it up. There’s no crying in baseball.

The chances of you even needing the glove are so low that it’s pointless. Plus, if you catch a foul ball with your bare hands, you’d be a lot cooler.