Don’t drink the water!
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Two signs on the doors leading from the visitors’ clubhouse at U.S. Cellular Field to the first-base dugout read, “NO BOTTLED WATER ON THE BENCH.”
What’s this? Athletes can’t drink water? Even in the humid Chicago summers?
Here’s the explanation I got:
Gatorade is Major League Baseball’s “official sports drink.” So instructions were sent that no player could be seen drinking anything but Gatorade in the dugout. Not even Aquafina, which is the “official water” of MLB. Not even bottles of water with the labels removed.
White Sox clubhouse personnel said if players take bottled water onto the bench, all the bottled water will be removed from the clubhouse as punishment.
So remember, the biggest threat to baseball isn’t steroids or HGH or amphetamines or runaway ticket prices or four-hour games.
It’s water.
April 24th, 2008 at 13:12
drinking a 7-8 glass of water in summers help us in summers to keep our body temprature low.
April 24th, 2008 at 15:14
I’ve got only one word: Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/quotes)
April 24th, 2008 at 19:04
It better be a joke. If it isn’t I hope the law suites start soon!
Despite the smoke and mirrors marketing, the top three ingredients of Gatorade are water, sucrose syrup, high fructose corn syrup.
In other words, it is soda pop without the fizz.
In other words it is a sugar rush with a few electrolytes thrown in.
In other words it is unhealthy garbage.
High fructose corn syrup is a health hazard that is in far too many processed foods and responsible for many of the health problems facing most Americans, like obesity and heart disease.
It is unbelievable that that they would not permit athletes to drink water, the one thing necessary for proper hydration.
If they are really banning water in favor of Gatorade, I would urge the players union to sue the league and Gatorade for forcing players to drink what is essentially a long-term danger to their health.
And sent an email to the MLBPA saying as much.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:39
Uhm, the major health risk from high fructose corn syrup is obesity. Athletes who consume Gatorade do so because they’re exercising and burning a lot of calories; the idea is that the calories in the sports drink enable better athletic performance and are burned, not converted to fat. So in fact, putting HFCS into Gatorade is actually an appropriate use that has a legitimate purpose and with normal use would not lead to obesity. So perhaps you should be a bit more nuanced?
You’ll find that the wikipedia article on HFCS doesn’t cite any substantive evidence that HFCS has health effects any different from regular sugar.