Sink or Swim: Grown Men Shouldn't Bring a Glove to a Baseball Game

In this episode of "Sound-Off with Sinkoff", host Brian Sinkoff introduces a segment called Sink or Swim, where he presents a statement and listeners can decide if they sink (disagree) or swim (agree) with him. 

Brian thinks that grown men shouldn't bring a glove to a baseball game. Brian argues that it is unnecessary and looks ridiculous. He discusses the optics of wearing a glove, the slim chances of catching a foul ball, and the impracticality of using the glove while eating or enjoying other activities at the game. 

He also addresses the idea of bringing a glove to protect a child and suggests that people should move their seats if they are concerned about safety.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone and welcome to Sound Off with Sync
Off.
I am your host, brian Sync Off.
Thanks so much for joining mehere.
Appreciate you checking out thepodcast.
We just launched this thing,hoping everyone out there enjoys
it, and it's just going to keepgrowing and growing.
I'm going to have guests, we'regoing to do call-ins.

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We're just going to have a lotof fun.
But speaking of fun, let's goback to my roots here a little
bit.
We're going to bring back anoldie but a goodie, and that is
a sink or swim.
For those not familiar with myformer show on ESPN radio from
2008 to 2011, one of thesegments I did was called sink
or swim.
It was a very popular segment.

(00:43):
It usually kicked off the showand what it was was I would sort
of bring up a topic, I wouldgive a statement, usually a
strong statement, and thenpeople would call in and sink me
, which would be disagree orswim with me, which means you
would agree and you'd give yourreasons why you sink me or even
reasons why you're swimming withme.

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It's a segment that we had alot of fun with.
We were able to just go nutswith topics.
It didn't always have to beabout sports.
But today's is Today's is aboutsports, and I wanted to sort of
delve into this here, asbaseball season is upon us.
And one thing, um that justgrinds my gears is, um, seeing

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grown men at a baseball gamewearing a baseball glove.
That is the sink or swim today.
So the sink or swim today isgrown men should not bring a
glove to a baseball game.
There is no reason for this.
It looks ridiculous.

(01:52):
Leave it at home, leave it inthe car.
You have no reason to bring aglove to a baseball game.
You look like a freaking dork,like I'm a dork.
Alright, I got a bobbleheadover there.
I got like Beastie Boys actionfigures, I got all sorts of

(02:13):
crazy stuff in my office here atthe Sinkoff Realty Group.
But having a baseball glove ata baseball game just looks weird
.
I mean, let's just think aboutthe optics here.
You leave your car, you walkfrom the parking lot to the
stadium, give them your ticketor scan your ticket, walk around

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the concourse, all the whileyou have a baseball glove on.
I mean that is justmind-boggling and it looks
ridiculous.
I mean it's like are you goingto bring a guitar to a concert
in hopes the band calls you upto play on stage, are you going
to wear floaties on your arms inhopes that the big wave comes

(03:00):
and a tsunami hits and you'reprepared?
That's what bringing a baseballglove to me as a grown man
feels like, and no, bringingyour glove to a game because
your kid has a glove, that's nota valid reason, unless there's
a catch on the field after thegame.
But how often is that?

(03:20):
Not often.
So mainly that happens at minorleague sports events.
So my son, I took him to a tonof baseball games.
I took Zach to a lot ofbaseball games as a kid.
We never brought gloves and ifhe wanted to bring a glove I
wasn't going to bring a glove.
First of all, let's just startcalculating the odds.

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The odds of you catching a foulball in your glove from
wherever your seat is are almostslim to none.
In certain parts of the stadiumyou're almost never going to
catch a ball, maybe at a homerun derby I mean.
I've been to hundreds of gamesand I've never I've actually
caught foul balls.
But usually you catch foulballs in a bounce it hits the

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seats in the air or a rollusually a roll and then you get
it.
That's how you get um, a foulball.
So it's.
It's you.
Just you worry about carryingthe glove.
And what are you going to dowith the dumb glove the whole
time you're going to?
You know, eat your ice cream,eat your churro, eat your cotton
candy with your glove on.
And again, if you don't haveyour glove on the entire time of

(04:28):
the game, it defeats thepurpose of having the glove
right.
Like, oh, I'm going to put myglove down and eat my food, then
why did you bring the gloveLike?
You can't justify it to me.
It's hard to justify.
Again, I've gotten foul ballsat games.
Never used a glove to do it.
Again, if your kid wants tobring his glove, his or her

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glove great, let them do that.
But it doesn't mean you need todo that.
I mean, do you want to joinyour kid's little league team
too, to be just like them?
Do you want to hop on thesoccer field and play soccer
with your kid, cause they'replaying soccer?
I don't think so.
Um, you know, if you're worriedabout protecting your kid from
like a foul ball, you know,brian, I'm bringing my key, I'm

(05:14):
sinking you, I'm going to bringa glove to the game to protect
my kid from a foul ball.
Move your seat.
People don't sit in an areawhere it's a danger for you to
sit and you need to feel likeyou have to bring a glove to
protect your kid.
Move your seat.
Don't sit there.
Don't take your kid to the game.

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There's a concept I've seenpeople bringing their infants to
a game.
That's just too young.
I was watching the oriole gamelast night or two nights ago.
They were playing, I think, theroyals.
It was like 37 degrees orwhatever.
At camden yards it was rainingand there was a dude in the

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stands who had his infant at thegame.
I'm thinking you are aninconsiderate human being.
If you're taking your kid, it'saccepting cold, crazy weather
so you can enjoy a baseball game.
That's kind of the same thingwith, like um, protecting your
kid being in an unsafe place.
While you're watching a baseballgame, your need to bring the

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glove.
I mean, are you really going tobe, you know, superman holding
your glove out, like BrooksRobinson making a stab at third,
protecting it from a kid?
Yeah, someone will probablysend me videos of you know four
instances in the last 37 yearsof someone having a glove to
save someone else.
But the odds are, you'reprobably going to get bitten by

(06:40):
a shark before you catch a ballat a game with the glove that
you wore for six hours to bringto said game.
Okay, that's the sink or swim,sink or swim.
Grown men should not bringtheir glove to a baseball game.
I welcome your feedback.
I welcome your comments.

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