Top 10 Vegetarian- Friendly Ballparks

From PETA, who as the photo to the right shows, just might be finally getting the hang of this whole PR thing...

1. Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia Phillies)

2. AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants)

3. Safeco Field (Seattle Mariners)

4. PETCO Park (San Diego Padres)

5. U.S. Cellular Field (Chicago White Sox)

6. Busch Stadium (St. Louis Cardinals)

7. Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers)

8. Coors Field (Colorado Rockies)

9. Turner Field (Atlanta Braves)

10. (tie) Tropicana Field (Tampa Bay Rays)

(tie) Chase Field (Arizona Diamondbacks)

Really, Philadelphia is the most vegetarian-friendly? I'd have thought that it would be Milwaukee, now that their fat load of a first baseman went off meat, while ours still grazes... but then again, they did bring in CC Sabathia. And lust after racing meat.

The Vegetarian Menace

Now, when you look at the following clip, you probably think it's just one more baseball slap fight. This one's in better video quality than most.



Sure, you could put it in the teammate on teammate file with Manny Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis in Boston, Dioner Navarro and Matt Garza in Tampa Bay, and Michael Bennett and Carlos Zambrano in Chicago. Those are just the ones off the top of my head; I'm sure there hav been others.

But what's really going on here is Fielder giving in to the inevitable homicidal rage that takes over all vegetarians. From Hitler to McCartney, as well as the classic passive aggressive types like Gandhi and Schweitzer, the practice of not eating meat just leads to blowouts like this. Someone slip some veal in Fielder's tofu, and all will be well in Brew Town.

(The fact that I've named my roto baseball league The House of Meat has nothing to do with this assessment.)