Wanted: Fat Guys for All-Male MLB Cheerleading Squad

Saturday , February 23, 2008

AP
MIAMI —
The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men.

The National League team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading
squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.

The team hopes to recruit seven to 10 tubby men to dance, cheer and jiggle
during Friday and Saturday home games this season.

Real manatees, 1,200-pound mammals sometimes referred to as "sea cows," are
not considered the most agile of creatures and often get caught in boat
propellers.

The Marlins want their Manatees to have the same dimensions, but to be
decidedly more agile. Men will be judged on how well they dance a
choreographed routine.

The Marlins already have a cheerleading squad, the considerably more svelte
Mermaids.

Men selected for the Manatees won't be paid. They'll get tickets to games
they perform at, and the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been
smallest in major league baseball for the last two seasons.

The Marlins aren't the only pro sports team capitalizing on Americans'
expanding waistlines. The Chicago Bulls basketball team have the Matadors,
a big-man dance troupe that's entertained fans at home games since 2003.

And although cheerleaders might be an unfamiliar site in baseball, big men
aren't, as fans have long cheered on the likes of Babe Ruth and Kirby
Puckett.
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Only a FOOL would believe in the FOLLY of Global Warming
Al Gore's movie IS an opinion (or more accurately a political device), and
there's very little 'scientific evidence' in it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/us/07stormcnd.html?ei=5065&en=1bb1732aba749ac9&ex=1200286800&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1199718180-11vT1Os9DH52pB43B/S+vg
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/06/br_r_r_where_did_global_warming_go/
http://www.newstatesman.com/200712190004
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19619301/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=485336&in_page_id=1811
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml

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