Why We Need More Male Cake Decorators
September 22, 2008 
Apparently this is supposed to look like a baseball field. For those of you who don't see a problem with it, do like I did and go ask your husband. (Or if you're at work, that annoying guy a few cubicles over who starts every conversation with "Dude, did you see the game last night?".)
Of course, if baseball fields were laid out this way, I bet the sport would be a lot more interesting. You know, in a Funniest-Home-Videos kind of way.
Further evidence of female involvement: that lace doily under the cake. I'm pretty sure no guy would feel the urge to "pretty up" the cake board - or for that matter, add an airbrushed red stripe on the side. What's that for, anyway?
MaryAnn C., I would say this is a home run, but on this cake you just can't do that. (The home run, that is.)
NOTE: Yeah, yeah, I know not all women are clueless about sports, just like I know there are probably guys out there who wouldn't know a baseball field isn't laid out in a giant 'X'. I simply choose not to acknowledge those people.
Reader Comments (139)
Ok, we're only gonna go over this once:
Google- Baseball field... images. In that order. Please.
Too funny! With this setup I would at least have expected a few plastic players on that nice green infield. Or a bat and ball somewhere. Are we sure this is supposed to be a baseball diamond??
Also, baseball isn't played at Wimbledon on a grass court...LOL
This is great, if you're playin' baseball for Jesus.
I knew right away it was a baseball field..but it took me several moments to figure out what was wrong. Where is my coffee?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'm clueless about sports, and even I know baseball diamonds aren't supposed to look like that...
Maybe the red stripe is because the birthday boy is a Braves fan? *points to the Braves flag in the background*
The left field wall at Fenway Park is known as "The Green Monster." I think it may have some competition now.
I would hate to field a ground ball off of that infield!
I would LOVE to see more male cake decorators. I go to a class and am usually the only one!
That's not the Braves, it's the Cleveland Indians.
Which doesn't explain the cake, I just thought I'd point that out for kenya.
Someone forgot to mow the baseball field...and failed geometry.
~Amy B
Nope, Yankees fan. Love that nice kelly green logo on what is probably supposed to be home plate.
@Kenya Starflight: You really are clueless at sports, hon; that's the Cleveland Indians' flag in the front of that cluster (along with what looks like the Mets, the Cardinals, and...I don't know what that "T" is), not the Atlanta Braves'.
At least it looks yummy.
Hahahaha!
I'm one of those rare female baseball fans, and I'm trying to figure out how this game would be played.
Pitcher throws the ball...batter gets a base hit...then, what?, charges the mound and tackles the pitcher on the way to first? What if it's an extra base hit? That would require twice as much running, each base requiring a trip to the mound. And what about a walk? *shudder* Too confusing. And totally hilarious.
baseball field? i was thinking very messed-up putting green, or a helicopter landing pad. i had no idea of "baseball" until i read the text. ugh! wonder what the cake recipient thought of his cake?
So would this cake be the new "full contact" baseball field design I've been hearing of?!
You know, I think I would pay good money to see the game k-bro described. Kind of like a combination between football and baseball. FUN!
Dimloep, the "T" represents Texas Rangers Baseball.
As for the cake...I can't get past the green claws masquerading as a border. This whole cake is just so wrong. *shudder*
As a Clevelander, that is most definitly Chief Wahoo of the Cleveland Indians and don't let anyone tell you any different!!! OTOH, I do consider the logo to be somewhat shameful.
Well...hmmm... the logo in the top right corner looks like it's for the New York Yankees. Perhaps the cake was for someone who is NOT a Yankee's fan. Yeah... and they were um... making fun of the Yankees by saying this is how they play ball... or... um... something...
If it wasn't for all the Indian's decor in the background, I might be questioning if it was supposed to be a cricket field. Now that's a sport I don't understand. (I'm one of those women who likes sports...even NASCAR to my husband's amusment given my background....)
Since you started the whole stereo-typing thing (is that word hyphenated?), I'll add to it. Even if the decorator was a guy, do you really think he'd be all into sports? He' a cake decorator!! Chances are if he watches baseball he isn't paying attention to the field (Hello Matt Holiday! with your hat on of course)
Too funny! I thought it was an alien mothership landing pad... either that or "X" marks the spot to a hidden big book of cake decorating secrets.
This made me laugh because there was a 3 year old on my son's t-ball team this year who ran the bases JUST LIKE THIS! Get a hit, run to pitcher's mound, get shooed to first base by the coaches and parents, next hit, run to pitcher's mound, get shooed to second, etc. This cake is clearly for him, bless his lil heart =)
--Gretchen
I thought for sure it was an airport runway.
"Zero-one-niner, coming in for a landing.... and watch out for the men on second and third..."
Are we certain this isn't an airport? Because that's what I first thought. Perhaps this is a birthday cake for an employee of the Cleveland airport who is also an Indians fan?
I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt here...
Clearly this is some twisted cross (har!) between baseball and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parcheesi" REL="nofollow">Parcheesi...
Wow, I saw a cardinal rose. Perhaps Jack Sparrow's compass. I never saw parsley covered "baseball DIAMOND" as a possibility. Too funny.
And what's up with those green droopy wilted plant-like things on the perimeter; doesn't this cake have a built-in sprinkler system?!
Baseball field??? Hell, I thought it was an artist rendition of alien crop circles.
At least it's diamond shaped...
...I'm still puzzled over the red stripe. Team colours?
I'm with the seeker on the alien thing... I was thinking some sort of metallic crop circle surrounded by...giant leaves??
I thought it was a helicopter landing pad.
I think the red line is supposed to be the reddish dirt on the baseball diamond, hiding just under the surface of the big fluffy gobs of grass. ... delicious.
I'm doing my part at getting the male decorator population up!
I have 3 young boys in my Wilton classes this month.
There's hope gang, hang in there!
The landing pad is definitely the way to go on this one...however, when I first saw it I thought it was some kind of governmental infrastructure flow chart.
I have had a life-long hate affair with organized team sports.
I actually managed to fail Geometry.
Even I know how wrong this cake is.
What the hell was with the decorator?
Okay, I will say that I usually try to figure out the wreck before I read the commentary. My first thought was "golf"--probably because of all the green--and my initial glimpse of it was interpreted as a golf ball with crossed clubs behind it. Then I looked closer.
Yeesh.
The thing is, if you don't just use frosting out of a can, using the rosebud tip can be pretty effective, or at least won't result in droopy swamp grass.
Maybe the red line is just to offset the nasty, blinding amount of Incredible-Hulk green on this darned cake. It needs something. There ain't enough milk in the world.
oh dear god.
maybe its not baseball at all.. maybe its cricket.. bit of a sticky wicket, that :-)
Ya gotta be kidding me! I don't like baseball but still... Didn't this decorator take PE in school? I thought every PE class covered the basics of @ least softball.
maybe it's not supposed to be a ball field. maybe it's supposed to be a crop circle or something.
If you build it, they will come...
I imagine with this particular version of the game, a player hits the ball and then runs straight toward the pitcher and tries to beat him senseless with the bat. Gives the pitcher way more incentive to strike him out, don't ya think?
I thought it was an airport runway! Tee-Hee!!!
oh my goodness, this is my favorite cake wreck so far. Hilarious!
Ahhh...someone failed geometry. See it's called a baseball DIAMOND. Not a baseball X. :-D I don't think you need to be a girl that's into sports to see what's wrong with this.
Gotta agree I want to see the game that K-Bro describes though.
If not for the baseball pennants in the back, I would have thought that someone just screwed up a cake that was supposed to look like a Cricket Pitch....
i actually thought this was some sort of crop rings until i read what it was SUPPOSED to be... sad... very sad LOL.
This cake hits a homerun! In an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! I LOVE it! Too funny!
Oh my. I do not even know what to say.