Stipulated: If you work for Hooters, and accept a job as an on-field ball girl for a Major League Baseball team, in this case, the Philadelphia Phillies, you may not object to the unflattering sobriquet “bimbo,” especially when you act like this:
Admittedly, the team is at fault, endangering its players and undermining the integrity of the game, by putting someone on the field who clearly 1) doesn’t know a foul ball from a nectarine 2) doesn’t have the sense God gave a muskrat and 3) hasn’t been told that her minimal duty is to pay sufficient attention to the game to avoid becoming part of it.
Still, this lovely blonde woman is allegedly an adult, and should be able to figure these things out for herself. She has a job that a seven year-old T-ball player could do with a minimum of thought, and still can’t do it right. It’s unethical to accept jobs you’re not qualified to do or not willing to learn to do, which in this case, apparently means any job that requires being more than vicarious visual sexual stimulation for middle-aged baseball fans.
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Pointer: Craig Calcaterra
Proofreading Kudos: David Elias, who was the first to flag “Sping Training”
Ethics Alarms 
Just a show window mannequin.
What is she supposed to be doing?
Paying attention, getting out of the way, watching out for the ball, since she is, you know, a ball girl. She’s in the field of play!
By the looks of the foul line, other players running in and the stands, I think she is actually not in the field but seated near the bleachers on left field side. Doesn’t excuse not paying attention, but aren’t you being a little hard on her?
No. She’s in the field of play—if a player can catch the ball and make an out where she is, she’s in the field of play. Foul territory is still the playing field. Everyone on the field…umpires, photographers, groundskeepers, ball girls, are charged with staying out of the way of the game. She wasn’t paying attention, and someone could have been hurt. And her reaction was to cover her precious face?
A disgrace to ballgirls everywhere. Usually, the women hired are athletes or softball players. They get it. Then there’s this:
Yes, it’s fake, but still…THAT’S a ballgirl.
Sorry, I can’t watch MLB here, except as snippets in our local news and I was unaware of these young ladies, where they sit and why, and I was wondering what they do. I understand the function in tennis, but in baseball? Even if she moved quickly, it looks as if the chair would still have been in the way.
She shouldn’t be in a chair, but if she is, she has to be ready to move her booty and move the chair too. Ball boys and girls aren’t new…most stand, or sit in a chair up against the stands, not exposed like that. It’s it the field of play, balls and player will be coming over there, and if she isn’t ready to vacate, she shouldn’t be there. At all.
She’s an idiot. in short.
The biggest idiots are the employers who hired her. If they employ an incompetent to do a job that she has no knowledge of without giving her proper training then incompetence is all that can be expected of her.
I agree with that, and that was Craig’s take. Bimbo ethics means “don’t hire bimbos.’ But really: you have to train someone on a ballfield to watch out for balls and players?
Thank you!
Why is she holding a glove if she doesn’t have it on her hand? I guess she can use it as a shield from being hit. And what is with the Hooters attire? Seriously? They could find a little league player anxious to be that close to the game who could do that job. Whole thing is an embarrassment.
I hear the Red Sox are going to sign her.
To play first base!
I just have never understood the clubs’ thinking in adding this cheesecake to the field of play. I would rather see attractive female umpires in bikinis…or, better yet, for real distraction, attractive females in bikinis doing all the walkabout hawking and vending of food, drinks, souvenirs etc.
My God, Eeyoure- don’t give them ideas!