#8: High-cuffed Pants and Stirrups

Baseball is an old-timey game. A relic, if you will. That’s part of the charm of it– baseball is virtually the same as it was when our grandparents’ grandparents saw it, and it will be the same when our grandchildrens’ grandchildren watch it (unless blurnsball takes over by then). Part of the charm of today’s game is when players still dress in that “traditional” look, the high-cuffed pants and stirrupped-socks. There’s no way you can possibly say that this:

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via Wikipedia

via Wikipedia

looks worse than this:

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via ESPN.com

via NY Daily News

It’s just not possible.  You’re wrong.  No offense to Ryan Howard, Manny or David Wright, but that look just isn’t right.  It’s interesting that I found that picture of Wright, in fact.  If you do a quick Google search for him, there are some images of him with stirrups, and some without (like above). I wish I knew the answer, but perhaps it’s an institution of the new Mets regime?  For their sake, I sure hope so.  They may play like crap, but at least their legs will look good.