The Chicago White Sox manager is taking a hit for allowing his players to put up two anatomically correct blow-up dolls in the locker room.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Slezak says the White Sox erected the "infantile and sexist shrine," before their Sunday game in Toronto. Slezak writes that the shrine was "designed to help the team break out of its slump" and that the dolls are "surrounded by 'strategically placed' baseball bats" and accompanied by a sign that reads, ''You've Got To Push.''
Ozzie’s response to the Sun-Times was not quite contrite:
“Everyone in the clubhouse, 100% of the people in the clubhouse, they are 18 years old and that's a private thing. If the players do it in the dugout so everyone in the public could see it, or did it in the hotel lobby…We did it in the clubhouse. A lot of worse things happen in the clubhouse. I don't really know why people are making it a big deal. If people got their feelings hurt because of that…they don't really know much about baseball.”
Big surprise. The problem is…he’s actually right. Baseball players are the most infantile, emotionally stunted misogynists on the planet. The homo-eroticism in a major league clubhouse is as prevalent as it is completely creepy. In what other profession do people begin kissing your ass at age 7 and then reward you with untold millions to continue your fairy-tale life?
Only one real question remains. Were the blow-up dolls male or female?
