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10 thoughts on Women Don’t Belong in the Dugout

  2. As a former sportswriter who had her worthiness to do the job questioned by idiots simply on the basis of gender, it’s good to see the collective, “what a stupid thing to say/think.”

  3. It’s a good start – I remember plenty of discussions on baseball forums on the question of whether women would at some point play in the major leagues that quickly devolved into feminist-bashing or woman-bashing. Even my favorite computer baseball sim still assumes the player is a heterosexual male (not just in use of pronouns; there’s a “personal life” screen where you, as a manager, date women, get married, have children, etc.) But I’ve never seen anything like a general show of support for women in the sport until now.

  5. You’re welcome!
    It’s a small thing, maybe, but in these dark days I found it heartening. I also liked how the trainer herself wasn’t afraid to declare Hernandez’s comments an insult to all women, not just her.

  6. I was waiting for you guys or Amanda to comment on this. I loves me some baseball (go Yanks! hehe) and I was disgusted by Hernandez’s comments. I was glad to see the trainer fire back, and even happier to hear Padres’ manager Bruce Bochy’s reply, which was something to the effect of, “Well, I thought gender wouldn’t even be an issue in this day and age.” Mad props to to the trainer and manager for speaking out (and to the Padres, who are apparently comfortable enough with women in the dugout to high-five them after home runs).

  8. Thank you for linking to my blog. 🙂

    Most people who read my blog would probably be surprised to find out that I’m a female. It seems like the majority of baseball blogs on the web are run by men. Not only can women be in the dugout, but they can be knowledgeable fans too! I hate when I tell guys I’m a Yankee fan, and they assume it’s just because I must think Derek Jeter has a cute butt or whatever, and that I probably know nothing about the sport. I even had a date who lied about liking baseball and pretended to know what he was talking about to impress me. But I quickly shut him up.

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