Well, at least if I ran things, there wouldn’t be.

Remember how I was talking about new changes to Hadlock Field, home of the Portland Sea Dogs? One of said changes was that the ladies restrooms were painted in order to provide “a more home-like atmosphere”. I had the feeling that pink paint was involved here, and I was sorta right. It’s actually a rather ghastly shade of pinkish-lavender. The whole thing looks especially hideous, since the stalls are still the original blue that they started out as.

Meanwhile, the men’s rooms are still painted in the red & blue Sea Dogs colors. No, I didn’t use the men’s room, Mike told me.

I wonder if they will make further *improvements* to the ladies rooms, to make them even more “comfortable and home-like”. You know, flowers, soft music, even wine racks. After all, a “proper lady” should not only wear pink baseball attire, but she also shouldn’t be drinking beer. Beer is for men, you know.

Screw that!  I love wine, just not at the ballpark  Beer is for ballgames.  Wine is for nice dinners.  Of course, they really wouldn’t have wine in the ladies’ room, but it wouldn’t surprise me if someone built a frou-frou wine bar in the ballpark, and painted it all pink, just for the women.

I’ve also already ranted about how the Fisher Cats gave away stupid pink hats for Mother’s Day.  I’m annoyed not only by the ASSumption that ALL women love pink, but also the ASSumption that ALL women are mothers.

Anyhoo, I was at that Mother’s Day game, no pink hat for me.  I managed to dodge the pink hat giver-outers.

Finally, I’m even annoyed by all of the “pink for breast cancer awareness” crap that went on all over baseball.  Some teams had to publicly humiliate them by being forced to wear pink jerseys.  The Red Sox didn’t go that far, they just had to use pink bats.  The only thing good about it is that all of the pink crap was to be auctioned off to support breast cancer charities.  But still, why does pink have to be the breast cancer awareness color.  Are you AWARE that men can get this disease, too.  Okay, not as often, but it DOES happen.  Remember Rod Roddy, the announcer on “The Price Is Right” game show, who wore all of those glittery jackets?  He died of breast cancer.  If it can happen to him, it can happen to any man.

So maybe we should lose the pink here.  And while we’re at it, let’s put all of those pink baseball clothes in a big pile and burn them.  They have NO place in the game, none.