MLB to Craig Biggio: Take off the frickin' pin...

[ZubenElGenubi]

So, you have Craig Biggio, future Hall of Famer, one of the last great franchise players, being ordered to remove a pin from his cap. No big deal, you say? Except that he's been wearing the pin (for his charity, Sunshine Kids) for 20 years..at all preseason games and before actual games. So, now some suit decides enough is enough and the pin's gotta go. It strikes me as incredibly hypocritical for MLB to do this in light of the drug/steroid epidemic that is threatening to devour the game...not unlike the cancer that is attacking the Sunshine Kids.Craig is one of the most level-headed and well-spoken players in the league today and it riles me to no end that MLB would quash a genuinely good-hearted soul. I have no idea how to fight back, short of writing a letter to the commissioner of baseball. In pen and ink and via snail mail, I suppose.http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl...=.jsp

[NascarXprt]

Holly Crap! a pin?! come on MLB get a grip its only a charity pin. geez. yes Craig is a great good and honest player why do this?

[drunkenmaxx]

hell, at least he didn't get a DUI like old tony did!

[redlava]

Not sure what the rationalization behind this is. I understand the strict uniform codes that pro sports enforce, but we're talking about spring training games here.

[Kari]

That is incredibly ridiculous...come on Major League Baseball! I think we all know the reason your league is going down the tubes, and I can assure you that it is *not* yellow sunshine charity hatpins worn during spring training. I can't believe that even after he stated his reasons for wearing the pin, because it makes the kids (who are CANCER patients) smile when they see it on a baseball card, they still want him to take off that pin.