The Ogden Raptors, the Single-A affiliate of the Dodgers, have canceled Hourglass Appreciation Night, and it’s just as well because I’m not sure I even know what it was supposed to be.
According to the original Raptors press release below, baseball has no clock, and so it’s a … salute to clocks, by honoring women with hourglass figures at the ballpark? And … I give up.
But aside from being the season’s most half-baked promotion, I think most of us can agree that it was also the most sexist. Two days after the release went out on the Raptors web site, it was taken down, and the team offered an apology.