Perhaps you’ve been caught up in all this ironic curling enthusiasm that’s currently sweeping the interweb and hadn’t heard the Major League Baseball just banned firearms from its clubhouses, which I found odd considering how baseball’s a sport that typically prides itself on being progressive and open to change. Of course, even the most logical seeming laws will have its detractors and this instance is no different. Enter Ryan Franklin……
Via:
Franklin, described by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as an avid outdoorsman, doesn’t like the ban on firearms in the clubhouse. “If you grew up around it, being in the outdoors and stuff, I was taught as a young kid how to respect firearms,” Franklin said following Saturday’s workout. “First of all, you don’t get stupid with it. Always treat a gun like it’s loaded. That’s what I taught my son and daughters. There’s a place for them.”
Now, I know the deer population of MLB clubhouses has been running rampant under Bud Selig’s reign as commissioner but with that said it’s hard for me to fathom a scenario where a baseball locker room could be justifiably considered a ‘place for guns’, especially seeing how Rubén Rivera hasn’t been on a major league roster in nearly a decade.
