The folks over at badjocks.com have published pictures of Elon’s baseball team hazing their freshmen. Lots of bras and panties involved which is a tradition I suspect dates back to 1988 when Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon) had Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) dress in garters to help correct his pitching form in "Bull Durham".
What is it about baseball and North Carolina that causes people to do crazy things like name their teams after bugs (Greensboro Grasshoppers) and dress in womens clothing? Could it be proximity to Greensboro?
Well I can’t say anything…in Winston-Salem we named our team after a wild pig (Winston-Salem Warthog). It’s better than naming your team after bait, but not much.
I’m waiting for the Grasshoppers to have a man-bra promo night and then I might make the drive over to see the new stadium.
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Girls around here are just as bad: http://badjocks.com/archive/2006/Wake-Forest-Womens-Volleyball.htm
The dressing up is OK, but the shaving heads, drinking/eating, especially alcohol, and the writing stuff/body painting are all unacceptabel. However, they’re all better than some of the hazing stories from high school baseball teams in my area.
I played baseball, and my senior class wanted to “initiate” the one freshman on varsity by shaving his head. We had never done that at my school (hazing had consisted of some punches to the arm, and carrying stuff for seniors) and I told the freshman that I’d take care of him, and did. It made me unpopular, but I only had a couple good friends on the team anyway. It is one of the few times in my life I’ve stuck up for something I believed in.
The way to stop hazing is for brave people to stand up.