MLB dugouts: no water allowed

Want an example of sponsorship lunacy?

Gatorade are the “official sports drink” of MLB; therefore no MLB player is allowed to drink anything but this product in a dugout.  Now, no doubt Gatorade pay MLB a lot of money to be their official sports drink, so you can understand why there are safe guards to stop rival brands getting a share of the spotlight for free. 

But this is taking things a bit too far.  Players aren’t even allowed to visibly drink unbranded water in the dugouts for fear that it might make a single soul question whether Gatorade is the greatest drink in the history of the universe. 

Where there’s money, there’s madness!

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About Matt Smith

Matt Smith is the editor and lead writer at BaseballGB. An Oakland A's fan, Matt has been following baseball since 1998 and started writing about the sport in 2006. He is the current Chair of the British Baseball Hall of Fame.

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