California Bans Smokeless Tobacco at MLB Stadiums

[old_tony]

Real men love a big wad of chaw and hate hard slides.

No matter how hard you wish it, what Utley did wasn't a slide.

 

[mpcincal]

Brian Doyle used to have a big wad of tobacco:

Who else put so much in at a time?

I had a few Joe Coleman baseball cards from the 70s, and every photo had him with a huge bulge in the cheek.

 

[mpcincal]

Oh, and I'm pretty much in line with Ragu. Don't like tobacco, think the use of it is stupid, but geez these guys are adults; if they choose to use it that's their business. California might as well change its nickname from the "Golden State" to the "Nanny State."

 

[bigpern23]

Brian Doyle used to have a big wad of tobacco:

Who else put so much in at a time?

 

[playthrough]

We all know coworkers who would have a cup at their desks and chew, which is a bit gross. I respected one of my wife's old coworkers, who would step outside the bureau office onto the sidewalk for a chew. The fact that it was the female office secretary was a nice twist. Ah, rural Florida.

 

[Huggy]

Hockey players are big chewers too, many of them from the time they are teens. They just don't do it during games. Never understood the appeal of that filthy habit and when I asked kids on the junior team I worked with why they did it they couldn't give me a good answer. They just did what they saw a lot of other guys doing.

 

[dixiehack]

Not like they're keeping their teeth anyway.

 

[Riptide]

Pretty soon you won't be able to sit butt-naked on cakes in the clubhouse, either. It's a shame. :confused:

 

[SnarkShark]

Hockey players are big chewers too, many of them from the time they are teens. They just don't do it during games. Never understood the appeal of that filthy habit and when I asked kids on the junior team I worked with why they did it they couldn't give me a good answer. They just did what they saw a lot of other guys doing.

Oh yeah, big time. Lots of water bottles half filled with tobacco spit in trash cans at local rinks.

 

[bueller]

 

[cranberry]

Thank God. Now kids can watch their dads get ****-faced and consume nachos, hot dogs and 24-ounce sodas without having to endure the bad example of a ballplayer or two with dip in his cheek.