That is the best way to get foot fungus...best wait til one gets home!

Your right ,bring it home and share it with family..

Most all of the ML locker rooms, shower areas, whirlpools, etc. are very spacious with plenty of room.....Except at Fenway......I have had players tell me that it is so small and cramped, players have to wait their turn to take showers and above all don't drop the soap!!......Fenway's dugouts and locker room areas are the tiniest in MLB, they don't even have room for two workout areas......I've seen high school locker rooms that are bigger and better than Fenway's!

Gotta believe some of these posters are receiving their intended reaction.

-Sherlock ( I'm pinch hitting today for my favorite poster, Vic )

But in all cases it's a Forum..A place strictly designed for opinions..I never care if anyone agrees with me..Its a place supposedly where we can relieve frustrations of Rays play or be estatic when good things happen...Its entainment without having to pay for it...Sometimes it's fun ,sometimes its not but it's where you can get aquainted with new friends..But in the end nothing we say on here makes one bit of difference in anyones lives..We can be insulted,laughed at and disagreed and agreed with. but it makes no difference...So enjoy,Have fun spread you knowlege,show your feelings but overall have fun and enjoy the fact we can have a place like this....Plus it beats talking to yourself.....Although in my case when I do I'm talking to someone smarter than I....LOL

Agreed 100%. If everyone agreed with everything I say it would be very boring and it would be like talking to yourself.
I could never understand the one guy (guess who) who would not just be personally insulted if you disagreed with his "superior OPINIONS" on his favorite players and manager ( I stopped "idolizing" my baseball heroes like that before I was a teenager), but would launch verbal assaults on anyone who did. Well not everyone -"his" regulars got a little pardon. And then there's the other guy (guess who again) who DOES make some valid points but says it a way JUST to rattle the first guys cage - and he beats him every time. So that part is funny

I Second that!

Tknrg and FoleyXXX, Are there any smart Idiots? .....PS Arty I was lucky to play two High School state Championship games at Fenway..We had the visitors locker room the day after the White Sox used it...Although I was thrilled It smelled like a Cuban poker game ashtray..Very clean tho...

You know ... with any "locker room experience" at all ... almost EVERYONE would realize the potential for the spreading of viruses and bacteria therein ... and that even "way back" in these two jokers lifetimes ... there were federal and state standards for minimum maintenance and cleanliness therein . Anyone who has never "caught something" from someone else through the contacts that occur in hot, humid, crowded locker rooms has probably never really spent much time in locker rooms! (AND ... they probably know very little about how communicable illnesses and diseases are actually transmitted.)

Maybe ... to a point ... but ... there are such things as completely ridiculous and totally unfournded "opinions"! In other words ... opinions that are clearly contradicted by the empirical and well-proven facts relating to the subject at hand.

Yes there are ... and some of them have been resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. from time-to-time. Idiocy can attack at ANY I.Q. level.

Your right I wouldn't know ,Because I never caught any of those and spent High school,College and a minor League stint in the Pirates system locker rooms..I played Football in High School and those were the rough locker rooms..Funny but I have never heard of anyone dying or losing a foot from locker room use..I suppose as you state the posibility is there, But more people have caught comunical diseases in Hospitals than locker rooms..

Follow basketball ??.... Players all the time are out sick with a viral or bacterial disorder, usually stomach or other illness with flu-like symptoms. I'm willing to bet that most of those sicknesses originate from locker room conditions....

I think most people of at least high school age realize that athletic locker rooms are breeding grounds for viruses and bacteria and their respective infections. At least in my day, we always had footbaths and sanitizing sprays available ... spitting and footstuffs were not allowed in the locker room (nor was yelling, cursing or more than minor horseplay) ... and ... in my high school ... there was even a barber's chair ... and a barber once per week ... and if anyone in the AD or school administration didn't care for someone's haricut or facial hair ... the deal was fix-it yourself immediately ... or be assigned a trip to the locker-room barber on the next Tuesday ... pay a fee ... and get what could best be described as a "Parris Island Scalping".

And it was never about "rough" or "tough" ... even among the football players; it was always simply about the institution teaching proper conduct, good behavior and accountability according to the accepted rules, boundaries and limitations of the day. In my day ... we were told that athletes were bound to a higher standard and that we should always be conscious that we were role models (in all the "right" ways) to all the younger kids. My kids grew up under the same conditions and rules.

Discipline ... and especially self-discipline ... is a very good thing.

In my day it was all about winning..2 State championships out of 4 and 2cnd place in one...We were aware of the atheletes foot fungas..I don't remember anyone getting real sick except for the common cold..But the Classroom was a better place to catch or pass on a virus...Usually after a baseball game we just went home unless it was a home game..

"Winning" and personal behavior are two different things ... and it's an extremely weak position for a team to take when it says ... "Just win! We don't really care how you behave or how you represent this team in the process! Just win!" Personally, in my experience, better discipline ... in ANY endeavor ... is a distinct positive and a desirable personal characteristic.

(The New Orleans Saints may be one of the current examples of that line of sports thinking that says ..."Win ... even if you have to willfully injure their guys to do it!")

In high school, we also won league, state and regional championships ... in basketball and baseball ... wearing our jackets and ties ... with our prescribed haricuts ... and making sure that wherever we played ... we left dugouts and locker rooms and any other facilities as we found them. There is no downside to good conduct and behavior.

No doubt about it!