Have you ever noticed that those two simply go together like peanut butter and jelly, or Cheech?
And thats not the worst.
In 2004, MLB okayed a plan to put advertising forSpider-Man 2on the bases during interleague play.
Credit: Al Behrman/AP
Fan outrage killed the idea, but that it should have been raised at all is depressing.
Sometimes you just want to say to the suits running Americas pastime, Have you no shame?
Is there nothing you wont sell?
No disgrace you will not visit on this wonderful game to turn a buck?
In the years that followed, more and more teams began to play more and more night games.
The reasoning was simple: Lots of working guys couldnt go to day games.
What the reasoning ignored was the ever greater emphasis on televised baseball.
But at least regular-season games are telecast at regular hours most start at seven or seven-thirty.
And the fans in the stadium?
Oy, such a deal for the online grid.
And the kids who buy the posters, T-shirts, and trading cards get warmed-over TiVo in the morning.
Too bad, of course, but Fox has to sell lawn tractors and the latest big-bang Guy Flick.
Sorry, kids, but when money talks, you guys have to take a walk.
The game actually started around quarter of nine (there go the 8-year-olds).
Duration of game: almost five hours.
But hey, the kids dont buy Bud or lawn tractors, so to hell with them.
Someone ought to give them a pants-down butt whippin.
Except Im afraid its already too late.
As one ESPN commentator put it recently, Commerce trumps conscience every time.
