Barry Lyons

Stop Asking The “Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich?” Question

It never fails.  Whenever a team’s social media team hosts a player and encourages the fans to ask the player’s a question, we inevitable see the same question over and over and over again.  We saw it again with Jay Bruce on Wednesday:

And then on Thursday with former Mets catcher Barry Lyons:

Seriously, what is the end game here?  Do MLB players have some divine authority to declare whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich?  If the player responds incorrectly, does the team get to declare the player no longer mentally fit to play baseball, declare the contract null and void, and have the player admitted into a mental institution?

Really, there is nothing to gain from the question as we learn nothing about the player.  Henceforth, the question needs to stop appearing all the time.  For that matter, we also don’t need to know opinions on whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or whether a player likes pineapple on his pizza.

Really, when the questions are being asked, you are only looking to get acceptance of your likely wrong assumptions on the topic because the answers are definitively:

  • If you consider putting ham and cheese on the same piece of bread to be a sandwich, then putting another piece of meat on the same piece of bread makes a hot dog a sandwich
  • Die Hard is no more a Christmas movie than Jaws is a Fourth of July movie
  • If you are going to consider Papa John’s to be pizza, pineapple can well go on pizza.

Now, let’s move on with the rest of our lives and try to find more intelligent questions to ask players when given the opportunity.

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