DMV Photos

Just finished watching the first game of the World Series. I know it doesn't count because the Giants aren't in it but it was a pretty good game. The Phillies won, so that was awesome. I think everybody expected the Yankees to win, including the umpires so several questionable calls went against New York. There's been a lot of bad umpiring this year, but you don't expect it in the World Series. That's like having a burned out battery on the space shuttle...

I also have a question that's been dogging me since the beginning of the season. At every ballpark, there is a big screen that projects pictures of each player during his at bat. These pictures are blown up about the size of a king-size bed sheet so everybody in the stadium can see what the players look like. Now, these are athletic young men, handsome even. Why do they have the DMV photograph them?

They can take a nice looking young man with big, brown eyes and a wide smile and turn him into something that makes you hear banjo music. Why do they do that? Major League Baseball has lots of money, they could get a decent photographer. Jeez - the Yankees are rolling in cash -they could hire Annie Leibovitz!

In the 1970's MLB decided to try to make the game more attractive to women so they put the players in really tight pants. I know that's when I became interested in the game. Now, I'm not suggesting boudoir shots of the players, but couldn't they use photos that make the players look at least like they have an IQ larger than the number on their back? At the very least - make them look happy to be there...!