Baseball is Back – But We’re Watching Them Hooters in Front

Ah, spring is in the air as Major League Baseball’s spring training camps are in full swing, and opening days around the league are edging ever closer. Doesn’t hurt that today marks the first official day of Spring too.

But there may be more this baseball season attracting fans to the game than the crack of the bat, if spring training is any indication – sex.

Yes – sex in baseball.

Not in the stands, though I’ve often wondered about those sitting in the nose-bleed section – on the field!

In many ballparks across the league, the lanky skinny teenage ball boys have been replaced with hot Hooters waitresses, wearing tight, revealing outfits.

They are still responsible for catching balls out of play, though many watching are more captivated by their excessive cleavage than whether or not they can use the glove they are sporting.

And someone forgot to tell baseball’s latest eye candy how to play the game. There have already been a couple of incidents where Hooters girls have interfered with a ball in play.

If a traditional ball boy did that, he’d be ejected from the game, possibly fired. After a jiggle or two, and a deep sigh, maybe a pout, the umpire just laughs, smiles and waves it off, as the jumbo screen replays the jiggle and bouncing girl in slo-mo.

It’s no secret that sex sells. Advertisers have been luring us in with pretty faces – and more – for as long as we’ve all had hormones.

And sex in sport isn’t new either, just think about those late night boxing matches with the ring girls, or the hot chicks in skin-tight outfits accompanying winning Indy Car drivers.

What is new, is placing the sex objects right in the action, where they can influence the outcome of a major sporting event.

If the Hooter’s girl hadn’t caught those balls, then the batter might have been out – instead of getting another shot at getting on base, or driving home a run.

Baseball is going to be an interesting sport this season.