cardfaninfla wrote:On this topic, you either enforce rules or you don't. You allow people to wear whatever charity or organization they want to draw attention to or you don't.
And for twenty years, they didn't.
He's wearning the pin in his FSN stock photo. He's wearing the pin in many of his baseball cards (which is exactly WHY he wears it in ST games). He wears it in interviews. Hell, he wears it in the shower, for all I know.
Anyone who is even a casual Biggio watcher knows what the pin is, and what it stands for.
And 20 years later... some lackey in the MLB offices was watching a ST game and decieded to step on Selig's crank for him.
mcgee51taguchi99 wrote:I don't know that I've ever heard someone, especially here, damning both the decision to call a tie and have home field in the WS determined by the ASG.
Check the "If you could change one thing about MLB, what would it be" thread.
The sentiments aren't directed at Bud, but there are people (myself included) who don't feel HFA should be determined in the ASG.
Right, I'm one who who does not agree with HFA being determined by the ASG as well. I'm saying that I could care less about the tie and am going out on a limb in assuming that others who feel the same way about HFA could care less about the tie too.
Does it make me a bad person if I find these quotes funny?
"But I've been wearing this pin for 20 years because it puts smiles on 20,000-something cancer patients' faces."......
........The 41-year-old second baseman, who is 70 hits shy of 3,000, said he wears the pin in spring training because many of the pictures for baseball cards are taken during those games and the children like seeing the pin on those cards.......
.......They didn't think about all the cancer kids that get enjoyment out of it."
I think the guy is completely sincere in his intentions, but he's going a little overboard, no? And, uh, "cancer kids?"
cardfaninfla wrote:On this topic, you either enforce rules or you don't. You allow people to wear whatever charity or organization they want to draw attention to or you don't.
And for twenty years, they didn't.
He's wearning the pin in his FSN stock photo. He's wearing the pin in many of his baseball cards (which is exactly WHY he wears it in ST games). He wears it in interviews. Hell, he wears it in the shower, for all I know.
Anyone who is even a casual Biggio watcher knows what the pin is, and what it stands for.
And 20 years later... some lackey in the MLB offices was watching a ST game and decieded to step on Selig's crank for him.
It hasn't been a rule for 20 years. The rule is fairly recent. But once again if Biggio gets to wear his pin what about the guy who want's to "play for PETA" or whatever group you can think of. If you let one guy do his thing then every other player can start wearing whatever pin they want.
Astros second baseman Craig Biggio has been given permission by Major League Baseball to return his yellow Sunshine Kids pin to his camp after being ordered last week to remove the pin.
Biggio, who has been wearing the pin during spring training games his entire career, adorned the pin for the second consecutive game Friday night after the Astros received word from the commissioner's office Wednesday it would be allowed.
"I think it's probably just more of a misunderstanding than anything," Biggio said. "I think when they realized what it's all about and realized I've been doing it for 20 years and it's all about the kids, now we're back to doing our normal thing, which is nice because all the kids are happy."
Biggio, a national spokesman for the non-profit organization for kids with cancer, was told by manager Phil Garner to remove the pin following batting practice March 22. He wears the pin to bring attention to the organization for which he's raised more than $2 million.
"There's nothing malicious here," Biggio said. "It's all good and all about making some children who have cancer feel good about themselves."
Biggio will also continue to wear the pin during regular-season batting practice.
