Nader against MLB Uniform's Ads...

[insein]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_uniforms_nader_1&printer=1

Nader Upset Over Baseball Uniform Ads

Tue May 4, 3:36 PM ET


WASHINGTON - Presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) called the advertisements on uniforms during major league baseball's season-opening series an "obscene embarrassment" and sent a letter of protest Tuesday.



"This overcommercialization is sapping the fun out of being a fan of major league baseball," Nader wrote in his letter to commissioner Bud Selig. "Now, you have sunk to a greedy new low."


The ads appeared on the uniform sleeves and caps of the New York Yankees (news) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (news) during their two-game series in Tokyo on March 30-31.


While the New York Mets (news) and Chicago Cubs (news) wore similar ads when they played in Tokyo in 2000, and baseball said in advance that the Yankees and Devil Rays would wear patches, Nader said the ads this year "ambushed fans across the country and left them shaking their heads at this obscene embarrassment."


Tim Brosnan, baseball's executive vice president for business, has said he is open to considering additional uniform advertising in the future, but Selig and chief operating officer Bob DuPuy have said it is not under consideration.


"We urge that you immediately put this issue to rest once and for all and eliminate any current or future possibility that major league baseball will accept advertisements on uniforms," Nader wrote.

This is another reason why nader will never be able to run a real campaign because he's focusing on these trivial things instead of real issues.

With that said, baseball is going way overboard on the money thing. Here's another example.
http://drudgereport.com/flash.htm

 

[musicman]

I always thought the NFL missed it's chance by not advertising "The Owens-Corning Two Minute Warning." Man's capacity for greed never ceases to amaze me.

Leave it to Nader, though, to use this as another excuse to attack the free-enterprise system. Screw him, and screw all pie-in-the-sky anti-capitalists. When advertising gets too obnoxious for me, I simply vote with my feet---and my dollars.

 

[Merlin1047]

"This overcommercialization is sapping the fun out of being a fan of major league baseball,"

Right. Let's see, here's the sequence of events between pitches in most major league games:

1. 2:01 pm First pitch. Ball one

2. 2:01:10 pm Pitcher receives ball from catcher.

3. 2:01:11 - 2:02:45 - Pitcher massages ball.

4. 2:02:45 - 230 - Pitcher lifts cap, scratches head, "adjusts" crotch, performs various stretching exercises.

5. 230 - 2:06:00 - Pitcher picks up resin bag and dusts hand & ball. Then repeately slams ball into glove.

6. 2:06:00 - 2:06:55 - Pitcher steps onto the rubber. Assumes carefully crafted pose. Shakes off first of several catcher signals.

7. 2:06:55 - 240 - Pitcher looks at runner on first base. Performs phase one of six step windup. Slyly glances at first base. He is the only one who thinks that no one knows he is about to throw the ball to first. Pitcher poses a while longer, glances to first again. Throws. Runner back on base six weeks before the ball arrives.

8. 240 - 210 - Repeat steps 3 through 7.

9. 210 - 211 - Actually throws second pitch.

10. 215 - Start over from step 3.

Overcommercialism taking the fun out the game??? Hell it might add a little interest. Want to put some fun back IN the game? Draft a rule requiring the pitcher to deliver a pitch within 30 seconds of receiving the ball from the catcher. But then you wouldn't have time for a nap.

 

[Moi]

Originally posted by insein
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=sto...ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_uniforms_nader_1&printer=1



This is another reason why nader will never be able to run a real campaign because he's focusing on these trivial things instead of real issues.

With that said, baseball is going way overboard on the money thing. Here's another example.
http://drudgereport.com/flash.htm

I agree that the commercialization of just about everything in this country is overboard. However, there is a simple solution to that- stop buying the products. Advertising, whether over the top or not, only escalates when it works!

 

[Avatar4321]

What the heck? Being an avid baseball fan i can tell you this. I dont look at the advertisements! Im watching the game. I could care less what they want to advertise. They could put beer can hats on their head and advertise every beer known to man and i wouldnt notice cause i could care less.

Nader can b**** and moan however he wants. It just makes him look ridiculous. Oh wow! Baseball teams are trying to make money i mean who would have thought that the people who play and run the game for a living would actually want to take home some money.

I say, if they can make more money by advertising more power to them. If it means i get baseball tickets cheaper. More power to them. if it means those sometimes ungrateful players wont go on strike for another pay raise more power to them.

Nader is supposedly such a smart man. Why in the world does he say such stupid stuff and not seem to understand why our nation is so great?

 

[Avatar4321]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=ny16605052033.spider_man_on_base_ny166&prov=ap

Out of curiosity. how many people will actually see this on a field?

 

[insein]

Originally posted by Avatar4321
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=ny16605052033.spider_man_on_base_ny166&prov=ap

Out of curiosity. how many people will actually see this on a field?

People will probably say, what the hell is that red crap on the bags.

I think Sony pictures is retarded for paying money on a non visible ad surface. They could have easily bought billboards like everyone else.

 

[Moi]

Originally posted by insein
People will probably say, what the hell is that red crap on the bags.

I think Sony pictures is retarded for paying money on a non visible ad surface. They could have easily bought billboards like everyone else.

Given all the press, I doubt they feel cheated.