White Sox Banned Bottled Water in the Dugout: Must Protect Gatorade’s Image!

Ed Price, who covers the New York Yankees for New Jersey’s The Star Ledger, noticed that there’s an odd sign in the dugout of the White Sox’s stadium: "NO BOTTLED WATER ON THE BENCH." (Even in the humid Chicago summers!)

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.

Link - via J-Walk Blog

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April 24, 2008 at 9:53 am by Alex
Category: Food & Drinks, Sports

22 Comments to "White Sox Banned Bottled Water in the Dugout: Must Protect Gatorade’s Image!"

fluff
April 24th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Ok that is just downright sick. I would never go along with that. From now on it’s no more gatorade. Never again. I am disgusted.
Edward
April 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Two solutions: Use a dixie cup or put water in a Gatorade bottle.
xpargas1
April 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am
my school banned drink bottles because some chick was putting drugs in her water
JoBo S
April 24th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Ok this is just crazy. I can almost understand not wanting to promote other companies but to not drink ANYTHING else but gatoraide???
phoenix
April 24th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I’m with Edward - I forsee a lot of water in emptied-out Gatorade bottles in the very near future.

Let’s hear it for the power of High Fructose Corn Syrup!
Jaycatt
April 24th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Well, Gatorade has electrolytes, and that’s what players crave.
MikeB
April 24th, 2008 at 11:27 am
They use the big Gatorade coolers (with the paper cups) for water. Merchandising/sponors bring about some interesting scenarios… like win a driver sponsored by Gatorade won a race that was sponsored by Powerade he threw the celebratory Powerade to the side and gulped down some Gatorade. The sponsors were not amused… we’re talkin’ LimeCat levels of non-amusement here.
PurpleDingo
April 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
For those who haven’t seen Idiocracy, I feel that I should fill you in..
Josef Plaston
April 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
This is totally bogus. See Discover’s blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/04/24/no-water-for-ba seball-players-not-exactly/
Christophe
April 24th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
How about beer?
Karen
April 24th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
It’s been retracted: http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/04/h2o_is_ok.html
Manticore
April 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
lmao, it has what plants CRAVE!
Sheldon
April 24th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Did anyone actually believe this article? You know that no athletic team in their right mind would ban water.
Sofar
April 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Yeah sure, it’s easy to say that now.
Larfin Jackarse
April 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Water? That stuff is in toilets.
Alannah
April 24th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Thanks, Karen and Josef, for pointing us in the right direction.
Justin
April 24th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Yeah, what Alannah said.
XuYu
April 24th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
‘Roids make me thirsty.
su.wei
April 25th, 2008 at 2:41 am
this reminds me of the movie Idiocracy.

scary
Justin
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hey Alex, or someone, if you could post a correction on the front that would be great. We have two links in here that confirm this story is bogus.
fsmarch
April 25th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I agree w/ Christophe!
Lore
April 25th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
It still seems like people just need to chill.

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