If Team Batgirl didn't already think that Bud Selig is the greatest thing to happen to baseball since jock itch, the announcement today that MLB will be putting SPIDERMAN 2 LOGOS ON THE BASES DURING INTERLEAGUE PLAY would do the trick.
The horror, the horror
Oh, the ingenuity! The vision! The crass unabashed moneygrubbingness of it all! Maybe the players could all dress up in Spiderman costumes, too! And the pitcher could be, like, Doc Ock and pitch with his eight arms. And instead of "God Bless America" we could sing "God Bless Columbia Pictures and their Loads O' Cash" And then next week all the players could pretend to be from the movie Troy with helmets and swords and skirts. And TC Bear could come out of the Trojan Dodge Dakota in the seventh innning stretch. Oh, and there must be crossover potential with The Passion of the Christ, because that movie is way huge. Because nothing says America's Pastime like tacky commericalism. Way to go, Bud.
[EDIT: Story is they've changed their minds. But that doesn't mean we still can't make fun of them.]
Posted by Batgirl at May 6, 2004 01:09 AMIs there really any important difference between ads on the bases and ads behind the plate or on the outfield walls, or the big milk jug by the baggy, or the Cambria Home Runs and the Hormel Row of Fame and the Subway Select Seats, or the ball-drop game which lets Dodge roll out a truck onto the field 81 times a season, or the DQ Cap Nights and the ad on the back of your AJ bobblehead, etc.??
Posted by: frightwig at May 6, 2004 04:00 AM