Major League Bummer. No, I’m not talking about the beleaguered White Sox reliever. Baseball’s front office has peed in the punch bowl yet again, sending threatening letters to players found to be in violation of the league’s uniform code. Listen, I get that some of the various accouterments have become pretty flagrant and have deviated from the players’ respective team color schemes in a big way, but what in the name of Roger Goodell are we doing here?
The big kerfuffle this past weekend had to do with Ben Zobrist’s all-black New Balance and PF Flyers cleats, but he wasn’t the only one who’d been warned about his non-compliant gear.