I’d say they give as good as they get.

Hah!

Do people not normally wear undershirts with their dress shirt? What kind of monster doesn’t wear an undershirt?

So your position is still that Joe Maddon, an otherwise intelligent person, doesn’t know the meaning of the word “illegal” and no context or other meaning can be gleaned from an off-the-cuff direct quote?

Reading isn’t the same as understanding.

Nobody mentioned alcohol until you flew in from left field to hijack the topic. Maddon was talking about, and I was talking about, solely smokeless tobacco. Nobody said or ever implied that everything legal should be allowable on a baseball field. The discussion was clearly contained to smokeless tobacco until you…

Neither Maddon’s comments, nor my comments, referred to anything other than smokeless tobacco. Nobody mentioned alcohol until you came flying in from left field to hijack the topic with it. Nobody said everything legal should be allowable on a baseball field. I was correcting the original poster’s complete…

“Alcohol isn’t an illegal drug. Should players be allowed to drink during games?”

“Alcohol isn’t an illegal drug. Should players be allowed to drink during games?”

Yes, lots of precedent and good reasons for stopping beer sales in the 7th inning or banning smoking tobacco. Maddon is taking exception to just the smokeless tobacco ban. Most likely because it has a lot less external consequences, like driving drunk or second hand smoke, and because his players like to chew during…

OK - and you are still not reading the context. Do you think he really doesn’t know what the word “illegal” means? Or did he mean something different than a strict definition reading of his comment?

“Alcohol isn’t an illegal drug. Should players be allowed to drink during games?”

I’m responding to someone who clearly misread the context. Not much of an assumption to be made. Do you understand why taking a stance on chew is different than taking a stance on cigarettes or beer on the field? If not, I don’t think there’s anywhere to go from here.

Do I even have to answer? Drinking a beer on the field takes up one of your hands... which you presumably need in order to hit/pitch/field. Alcohol dulls the senses and slows reaction time. Seems important that a pro baseball player doesn’t do that.

I don’t know - why don’t you ask him? Should Joe Maddon have to address every issue of personal freedom just because he addressed this one? Does everything immediately need to be escalated to the next degree? Clearly smokeless tobacco is less annoying/unhealthy to the people around you than smoking a cigarette. He is…

They own the White Sox stadium and lease it to the team. So, partially yes.

Hoverboards aren’t an illegal drug, but you can’t use those either. How far do you want to go with your logical fallacies?