Bean Whittle found it amusing and so he posted in Bronx & Beans a picture of a baby in a Red Sox shirt and a Yankees hat as a diaper.
Forget for a moment the extra funds needed for baby powder to deal with the chaffing that a hat will cause (nice parenting, by the way, whoever that was). Forget for another moment the psychological trauma the kid now has to deal with because of confusion between which team to root for (again, solid parenting).
Now think what's worse: that hat protecting your manhood or having your franchise's greatest player/icon ever desecrated by having his museum placed in that beacon of sports history Tropicana Field?
That's correct, the Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame is located right there in the belly of Tropicana Field, home to a Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays with a .399 career winning percentage (645-972) coming into 2008.
What the heck do the Rays know about hitting, except how to let other teams do it well? (Granted, they have a good offense this year, but what about the previous 10 seasons which yielded 70 wins just once. As Doctor friend Sophie would say, "Every bread has its cheese.")
Was there no room in Fenway to honor Teddy Ballgame with such a museum? I understand the ballpark is old and small, but Theo and Co. keep finding places to put seats, surely they could find a little nook for a Ted Williams museum of sorts instead of letting it rot away in a stadium that hasn't averaged more than 18,008 fans per game since the 2000 season.
I know Ted hated Boston fans and media for most his career and vice-versa, but still, to let it slip away to St. Petersburg and Tropicana Field is just plain sad.
- La Monica