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Those of us who grew up in the 1990s remember when The Sandlot was released, in the spring of ?93. Baseball fans united over a ragtag group of ball players, lead by Benny ?The Jet? Rodriguez, who met to play pick-up baseball as seriously as if they were in game seven of the World Series, all day, every day. I was 11 and saw it in the theatre with my older brother, Matt, and everything was going fine until Hamilton ?Hammy? Porter, facing down the local Little League team, screamed, ?YOU PLAY BALL LIKE A GIRL!? A full-out brawl ensued, as if this insult was the worst of the worst. As a diehard ball player (even more so then), I booed loudly and started to pelt the screen with M&Ms. My brother had to tell me to calm down or he was calling our parents to take us home. But surely we?ve come a long way, right" Imagine my surprise when I was faced with the exact same sentiment, 23 years later, on Tuesday night. John Gibbons, manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, in response to a new MLB regulation that cost them their third win of the season, told the press, ?Maybe we?ll go out there wearing dresses tomorrow? for all the limitations the new Chase Utley rule imposes. My jaw dropped, and I wished for M&Ms to throw at the TV. And I wasn?t the only one. The Twittersphere exploded with rage for the social unacceptability of Gibbons? remark. He?s dug himself even further into the hole by saying that everyone should ?lighten up? and that his mother, daughter and wi...