Bring back the shorts!
College softball has suffered a huge loss.
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After a baker’s dozen games at the Women’s College World Series, a disturbing trend has emerged.
Shorts are dead in softball!
Used to be, just about every softball team that came to Oklahoma City to play for a national championship did so wearing shorts. They would wear shorts that fell just above the knee with stirrup socks that stretched all the way to the knee. It was a fun look, a different look, a look that set softball apart from baseball.
Teams that wore pants were oddities.
Now, short-wearing teams are the odd ducks.
You had to be paying close attention this week during the Women’s College World Series to find a team even wearing shorts. Through four days, only Louisiana-Lafayette sported shorts and the Rajun Cajuns only did so once. They went with pants in their other two games.
I don’t know why, but I found myself lamenting the loss of shorts in softball. Just maybe it felt a little bit like softball was trying to look more like baseball.
Boy, would that be a bad idea.
Softball is a fun, vibrant sport that is growing by leaps and bounds. People love the energy and the enthusiasm. They love the way the game is played. Heck, spend a few minutes listening to John Kruk on the ESPN broadcasts, and he’ll sound like Shakespeare waxing poetic about how softball is played the baseball should be.
Softball needs to keep its unique identity, and how the players look is a part of that.
But you can say this much for the gals, at least they wear their pants the right way. See, I’m a big advocate of the old-school, pants-to-the-knees, stirrup-socks-from-there look. It’s crisp. It’s sharp.
And it’s completely dead in baseball.
These days, the last thing a baseball uniform is, is uniform. You’ll see guys with pants to their knees, pant that go all the way to their shoe tops, baggy pants, tight pants. And they’ll all be on the same team.
The guys need to take a fashion tip from the gals. Then again, when is that not true?
Softball knows how pants should be worn, but that doesn’t mean they should always wear them.
Bring back the shorts, softball. It was distinctive. It was fun. It was one more reason to love this sport.
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