Yankees Banish Baby Ruth From the Clubhouse

New York Yankees Manager Joe Girardi has done the unforgivable: He has banned Babe Ruth from the Yankee clubhouse…er, make that Baby Ruth. Yes, you heard me, no more candy bars. Instead of getting fat off weaker teams with sub-par batting averages, it seems the Bronx Bombers are now getting fat off sugar and sweets. So fat, in fact, that junk food and sweets have been removed from the clubhouse. Why the sudden need for a healthy diet? Weight-wise, the Yankee roster comes in at fourth place with their players averaging 217 lbs. per player. But, hold on a second--Babe Ruth had his ups and downs, for sure, but his average playing weight is listed at 215 lbs., two pounds under the new limit, and nobody told number 3 what he could or couldn’t eat. What would the Bambino make of this new decree? He loved his ice cream, and often ate it before, after and during a game. Would Girardi seize his goodies and bench the Babe, thus provoking a new “Curse of the Bambino?” Or would he let him play, since he would be lighter than the “average” player on the roster? Baseball is, if anything, rooted in tradition, and dietary concerns or not, I somehow think the Yanks would have made room for the “Sultan of Sweets.”

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