Do Bidets Make Baseball Better?

[+ Lucky]

Some Japanese players entering the major leagues have asked for bidets to be installed in the locker room. Why can't they just ask their teammates  for help in cleaning? Will the entire leagues become bidet backers? And then what? The fans will no doubt want them in the stadium restrooms. Where does it stop?

Sure, thinking of squeaky clean buttholes while a player is on the field could become a distraction, but I support each player's right to clean play!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7017114/2026/02/02/chicago-white-sox-munetaka-murakami-bidet/

White Sox’s Munetaka Murakami is latest Japanese player to request bidet

Munetaka Murakami was the premier signing for the White Sox this offseason. Geoff Stellfox / Getty Images

By Jordy Fee-Platt

Feb. 2, 2026 5:16 pm PST

Munetaka Murakami has been the premier offseason signing for the Chicago White Sox after leaving the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the Nippon Baseball League to play in MLB for the first time. Upon his arrival, the Japanese infielder had an interesting request for White Sox management: Murakami wanted a bidet in the locker room.

“One thing he did notice is we didn’t have a bidet in our locker room,” White Sox general manager Chris Getz told Scott Merkin of MLB.com. “That’s new to him. It was like, ‘Okay, that’s new. We can do that.’”

Murakami isn’t the first Japanese player to request a bidet in the locker, as he makes the trip stateside for the first time. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki made it clear to the organization when he was being courted last offseason that installing a bidet was important to him.

https://www.mlb.com/news/munetaka-murakami-bidet-white-sox-clubhouse

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3 by Lucky

[samhexum]

 

[jeezifonly]

Bidets make everything better, whether we know it or not. Use and cleaning should be taught in school. 99% of American societal problems are created by straight men with dingleberries. 

[+ Lucky]

10 hours ago, jeezifonly said:

Bidets make everything better, whether we know it or not. Use and cleaning should be taught in school. 99% of American societal problems are created by straight men with dingleberries. 

Hmm, what is the evidence for that?

[dutchal]

2 hours ago, Lucky said:

Hmm, what is the evidence for that?

Spe-crap-ulation?

[Becket]

Not to be too graphic, but don't you still need toilet paper. A bidet, fine, but then you're all wet. Someone with better hygiene with me, please educate me.

[craigville beach]

10 hours ago, Becket said:

Not to be too graphic, but don't you still need toilet paper. A bidet, fine, but then you're all wet. Someone with better hygiene with me, please educate me.

with the Toto Washlet, it has a hot air feature that will "blow" hot air on your butt 

[jeezifonly]

16 hours ago, Becket said:

Not to be too graphic, but don't you still need toilet paper. A bidet, fine, but then you're all wet. Someone with better hygiene with me, please educate me.

Western bathrooms all have toilet paper, so a toilet seat with built-in bidet can be an and rather than an or.

And not to be too graphic, but everybody's got different shit to deal with.