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Physicians Group Puts Up Anti-Bacon Billboard, Asks the Iron Pigs to Try Broccoli or Something
By Jim Adair
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If you’re heading to a Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs game, you might see the above billboard on the way to the game. Though it has the Iron Pigs look, the billboard was put up by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization. And it’s not just the billboard, the group reached out to the team as well:
The Physicians Committee in a news release Monday said it sent the IronPigs a letter that suggested the team add broccoli or another healthy food to the lineup of mascots who race during each game. Right now, the mascot race includes Chris P. Bacon, Diggity (the hot dog), Hambone and Barbie Q.
Thanks, Mom. The team did respond to the “finish your veggies” letter with one of their own in which they told the PCRM that the Iron Pigs aren’t in “the business or habit of dictating to people what they should or shouldn’t eat or how parents should raise their children.” The team also invited a representative from PCRM to throw out the first pitch at a game, but they should make them promise they won’t just throw a whole shit ton of broccoli at the fans.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.