What’s your sexual batting average?

Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: What’s your sexual batting average?

In Seattle a judge has ruled that the gay softball world series can keep its rule limiting the number of straight players on each team:

“The rule at the Gay Softball World Series is you can have straight players, but you can only have two per team,” says reporter Eli Sanders.

Sanders has been covering the trial for The Stranger.

But the rest of the suit will go to trial in August, to decide whether league officials went too far when they suspected that three players on the San Franciso team were not gay enough:

“There was a tribunal, I’m calling it, that was convened on the field in 2008 at the Gay Softball World Series in Seattle where a panel of experts who are officials in the National Gay Softball Association questioned the challenged San Francisco players about their sexual preferences and determined they were non-gay,” says Sanders.

The players felt humiliated. And that their rights had been violated. But as Sanders points out, it isn’t just gay softball that cares more about your score off the field than on:

“There are African-American softball leagues, Native American softball leagues that require a Native American ID card,” says Sanders. “One of the players challenging the Gay Softball Association’s right to set a limit on the number of straight people allegedly plays in an Asian Pacific Islander softball club that limits based on ethnicity,” says Sanders.

I say, we take the winner of the gay softball world series, and the winners of he straight softball world series, and have a world softball super bowl, so we can figure out which sexual orientation is the best. For that season anyway.

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