Girls GIRLS GIRLZZZZZZ
On the Internet
Writing baseball blogs
Girls GIRLS GIRLZZZZZ
Are baseball fans
Writing baseball news
(apologies Nikki Sixx)

Yeah, I know I shouldn’t like that song one bit, but I remember being a little girl dancing around the living room chanting GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS with the video. I got most of the words wrong so I guess I missed the message of the song (tsk tsk tsk). Yeah, I’m so old that I grew up with MTV, which was on most of the time and back then they used to play actual videos. You know, when we used to walk to skool 10 miles uphill in the snow and ice BOTH WAYS!!! And we LIKED it!!!
but I digress…
And speaking of old, it wasn’t real†too long before I was born†that some Neanderthal ballplayers†complained bitterly that (gasp) female sportswriters (Texan Anita Martini, in particular) were to be allowed in the locker room – like, you know, if them chickie poos was a gonna see em nekkid, then those females, why they oughtta be nekkid too. Cuz how could a female be actually ALLOWED to write about sports? Or something like that. After all, what could females POSSIBLY know about baseball? Never mind that our grandmas, great-grandmas and great-great grandmas played professional BASEball, even though we aren’t allowed to any more. Never mind that at least 1/3 people in the stands are females (and trust me on this, 1/3 of the male population is NOT gonna drag some female somewheres for 3 hours when she does not NOT wanna be there – no male wants to suffer THAT much for†such an incredibly long†long time afterwards unless he’s the kind of guy who likes a spankin you know what I’m sayin..)
Where was I?
Oh yeah. It wasn’t too long ago that Susan Slusser made headlines for being a baseball beat reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. And with the explosion of baseball blogs, more and more FEMALES are writing about our favorite teams as well as our thoughts on baseball. These days, almost half the fans in the seats are female, even if more males blog about baseball, stats and ballplayers. Our MLB.com beat reporter is Alyson Footer, who sometimes appears on the post-game shows, too. Here at MVN, Samara Perlstein has been blogging about the Tigers for 4 years – you know, from back when they were losing 100+ games a year every year for years.
But anyway, I’m going to give a shout out to a couple of my fellow female bloggers.
First are the grrrrlz at We’ve Got Heart. Check out Stephanie’s interview of Pam Gardner, who has been working for the Astros since 1989, BEFORE Drayton McLane bought the team. She’s now President Of Business Operations, and yes, I know that some guys do not consider that to be a “real” Front Office position, since she is not directly involved with either major or minor leaguers. But, you know, there are already 3 female assistant GMs in the majors and there are female scouts (our eyeballs work just fine, thank yuh verra much) and it won’t be real too long before more and more females will be working in scouting and player development, in the stats departments, in the negotiations departments and even – as actual real GMs.
Next†is Red Hot Mama, a website written by, you guessed it, GIRLS!!! They talk about Reds baseball and discuss other NL Central teams. And, occasionally, we discuss our love for men in general and red hot baseball playing men in particular. (And I don’t want no grumbling from you readers who firmly believe that 16 pages of non-athlete females with ginormous plastic boobies wearing bikinis is an appropriate topic for a “sports” magazine…)
Next is Girls Don’t Know Anything About Baseball, written by fellow Texan Eleanor “EMC” Czajka, about the Rangers and their minor league affiliates. Check it out.
How many guys still miss Bat-Girl?
I wouldn’t be real too surprised if more than a few of all yall males check out Sexy Sox Girls, putting aside your understandable prejudice against partially clad busty young females who for some reason, are wearing a little bitsy bit of what might could be red-sox gear, if you aren’t distracted by Other Things. Of course, the writing is limited to comments on the girls’ appearance, but hey, I know all yall guys can manage to put aside your pre-conceived notions of what a baseball blog should be all about. (And just forget trying to talk me into starting a Sexy Astros Chicks blog starring lil ol me…)
Oh, and last but not least, props to Jesse Barfield for understanding what grrrls fantasy baseball is all about:
“Can the baggy uniforms be the reason that female attendance has gone down a bit? Chicks may dig the long ball, but if the uniform isn’t fitting, in the baseball stands, the chicks ain’t sitting.”
Trust me on this, there IS a reason that the Ausmus and Backe jerseys/t-shirts are such big sellers with female Astros fans…

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