This past weekend in an effort to reverse their current loosing streak the Chicago White Sox invited two guests into their locker room. Not inspirational speakers, and not anyone worth more than about $19.95. These players brought in two blow up dolls.
These dolls were placed in the middle of a cricle of bats in an effort to remove the bad 'mojo'. This seems desperate, but with a team who was about three losses away from batting one of these dolls in the seven spot it might have been the laid back mind relaxing experience these players needed.
Obviously these dolls were not used in a sexual way. Granted athletes are known for their objectifying of women, just look at the mess Roger Clemens is in right now, but so are corporation heads, former presidents, and the mayor of New York. Why are people out raged to hear this, when the people who are more prominent than baseball players are doing much worse, with real people.
The bottom line is that boys will be boys, and men will be men. If you look hard enough one will find some sexual dirt on any man over the age of 17. Besides, this story should not be news in the first place. Unless the White Sox try to say the dolls gave them steroids, I don't care what is going on in the locker room. It's not like they got an unfair advantage from this.
As a baseball player I can see how this little incident could help a team. During a loosing streak the locker room can be a place filled with tension and pressure, but baseball is game that requires one to be loose and relaxed. This stunt was obviously for that purpose and anyone trying to bring dirt on the White Sox should take a look aroung the world and what is on television these days and maybe they can come to a sensible conclusion that it doesn't matter. Players deserve their own space. As it is they don't get enough personal space, so like a married man's garage the players need their locker room.
