Twins Adopt Business Casual Look on Scoreboard Photos (For Some Reason)

Baseball, by most agreed upon accounts, is a game that was established in the mid-19th century in America. The exact date might never be known. Either way, we can all agree the sport’s been around for parts of three centuries. Let’s guess that when Abner Doubleday was doing whatever he was doing while others were starting the game, deep-fried nachos and hamburger ice cream sandwiches weren’t on the menu.

The sport remains the same at its core — three outs, nine innings, etc. — but continues to evolve and change, even if it takes a a glacial pace at times. Teams continue to find ways to innovate, whether it’s using a newly created statistical metric to find undervalued skills in an attempt to improve their club … or if you’re the Minnesota Twins using business casual photos on the scoreboard in 2015.

If anything screams out the 2015 Minnesota Twins its Joe Mauer rocking a sweater over a collared shirt, right? One part of baseball that never changes is teams trying to sell fans products, so why not expand those items to sensible, office-friendly chinos? Or maybe they did it because they figured it would become easily-mined viral blog #content?

Jordan Schafer … your thoughts?

What a time to be alive.

[HT Extra Mustard, photos via Tyler Mason]