Baseball backs down

Everybody and their mother screamed bloody murder about MLB putting adverts for Spider-Man 2 on the bases, so they wised up and reversed course.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6811-2004May6.html

Still gonna have the logos on the on-deck circles throughout the games and on home plate and the pitching rubber during pregame ceremonies. Still, I’d chalk this up as a win for the fans.

Wow, they must have read my pit thread about this.

Behold my power :smiley:

Normally with this quick a change of heart, I’d say it was planned somehow, but I can’t possibly see any positive marketing spin for it.

Now if we can only convince them to scrap inter-league play altogether…

What? Sorry, I don’t follow … :confused:

Just a gimmick. Until both leagues follow the same rules, the only difference is that the A.L has the D.H. rule.