New (Sports) Rules

Bill Simmons takes some inspiration from Bill Maher's popular segment and does his own version of New Rules. 

My favorite:

New Rule: No uniforms for baseball managers. It becomes a little harder to get into the drama of the NL East race each time Phillies manager Charlie Manuel waddles out to the mound. Here's a 64-year-old man with a potttbelly (he's so well-fed, I need three "t's") crammed into a uniform. The poor man looks like he's just months away from putting on a Santa suit and posing for pictures at a mall. Can't managers wear hoodies and jogging pants like NFL coaches do? What happens if Charlie's pants fall down during the Series? His lard is on your hands.

Baseball managers in uniforms never made any sense to me. Some will argue this is a time-honored tradition - an important tradition - and that baseball is one of the few sports with such a deep sense of history.  These people are clearly not Phillies fans, so they don't have to see Charlie Manual in a uniform 162+ days a year. It really is absurd.

 

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