I’m so sick of this fucker destroying the game and all its traditions. Now we get this.
Every other day he gives me another reason to consider never cheering for the Brewers again after almost 30 years of loyalty.
Who’s bright idea was it to let this shitbag govern all of baseball? He’s already done away with the AL and NL offices to place him in the King Shit chair. Business move? HAH! Who the fuck is gonna buy into the idea that the teams are going broke? Selig turned over control of my beloved Brew Crew to his dipshit daughter and her worthless coattail-riding husband. If the finances of one of the lowest revenue generating teams is still turning a profit, where the hell is the money crunch?
Not sure how the relation to this goes, maybe I’m just torqued. If Selig is so concerned over baseball’s finances, why did he sucker the 5 county area to build him a new stadium when he planned all along to sell the team?!!
Side note: I heard awhile back that the state of Wisconsin was looking into that deal. Any Doper’s know if anything came from it?
almost 100% of my posts have been in the Pit today, but it’s like every topic is calling my name.
This story makes me sick. Listening to the Cubs game NOW I already have to deal with every fucking pitching change being brought to me by Jiffy Lube, I hear the PEPSI LINEUP at the beginning of each game and every fucking homerun is sponsored by Southwest. I’m surprised they even go to commercials at inning breaks with all the sponsorships they pile on during the game.
What’s next? Sammy brushing his teeth with Crest as he runs the bases?
Runaway marketing in sports is one thing that I truly hate. Unfortunately Bud and Miller don’t seem to have a problem with 6 year olds developing brand loyalty.
Frank Deford has a good article about ads at the Kentucky Derby.
“The fans are already becoming used to corporate logos being a part of their sporting events,” said Jeff Chown, managing director of The Marketing Arm, an entertainment and sports marketing consultancy firm. “The purists will say that something like this is not good for the game, but something like this also helps promote the game.”
Promote the game? To who, the people already at the ball park?
The day Dodger Stadium becomes anything other than that, I desert the Blue Crew forever. “Taco Bell Park” my ass…
At least this promotion is more or less invisible, if stupid. How often do you see the base from the top during a game? Shit, probably a lot more now, I suppose.
This assbag has ruined the Brewers for me too. I grew up watching them, and now the only thing to get excited about is side bets with your friends on when they’ll be eliminated and which somewhat promising player they’ll give away.
At least I didn’t have to pay for that boondoggle in Milwaukee County (at least not directly).
As a NASCAR, as well as baseball fan, I guess I take a more sanguine view of the logo controversy than some might. I do believe, however, that this is one case where the Slippery Slope Fallacy may in fact be correct. Pretty soon I guess we’ll have corporate logos spray-painted onto the outfield grass, and players saying things like “Well, my teammates on the Halliburton Astros really backed me up tonight, and I’d like to thank Gallery Furniture for supplying those nice recliners in the dugout.”
I think the sport was lost to logoitis years ago, however. My local ball yard is not named Nolan Ryan Park or Union Station Field; it’s ‘Minute Maid Park’, and before that was ‘Enron Field’. For some reason I can’t place the names of those famous players of yore. Didn’t Douglas ‘Minute Maid’ Jackson play shortstop for the 1912-1914 Pirates? Oh, well.
Anyway, from my poor man’s seat in row 13 of section 439 tonight, I won’t be able to see any logos on the bags; hell, I may not even be able to read the number on the back of Clemens’ shirt as he (probably) passes Carleton for second on the all-time strike out list. I’ll still be there, though, and I’ll be able to read all the other corporate logos scattered around the joint, for Bud Lite and Coke and Chevron and, of course, Minute Maid, just fine.
Good thing you guys aren’t fans of soccer (well you may be). Every club team that I can think of in Europe has a sponsor that is basically the teams logo on the shirt - and it ain’t tiny, it’s smack dab in the middle of their chest. I can name the English Premiere League ones quite easily, the team and their sponsor are practicallty inseperable:
Man U - Vodafone
Arsenal - O2
Liverpool - Carlsberg
Leed - Mackey & White
Aston Villa - Rover
Newcastle - ntl
Mancester City - First Advice
Wolverhampton - Doritos
Bolotn - Reebok
Getting responses to a flame of Selig is alomst easier than getting them by flaming child molesters. Selig is just bad all around.
Gangster, I know soccer has had it for years and doesn’t really bother me. But this baseball in America. Some things just shouldn’t be tampered with. What next? Logos on Fallopian (sp?) tubes?
Bolding mine. He’s right, sort of. I don’t expect to be bombarded with advertising when watching a game. Sure it’s all over the park, on walls, in programs, etc. But not on the field of play, where I’m actually watching. Or on the uniforms of the players, who I am watching.
It is absolutely a step towards “wallpapering the ballpark,” you idiot. To insist otherwise is insulting. Curiously, when did they put logos on the bases for All-Star and World Series games? I’ll bet they weren’t corporate logos.
No, it’s a step toward carpeting the ballpark. See - carpet, wallpaper, two entirely different things.
He’s a jackass who’s entirely out of touch with the fans and shouldn’t be allowed near baseball, but not a lying jackass who’s entirely out of touch with the fans and shouldn’t be allowed near baseball.
Selig so desperately needs to go there are no words to fully express it.
Don’t know about the other two since I don’t watch baseball, but since there is a giant coca-cola bottle at SBC (formerly PacBell) Park, coincidentally at left field, that one is prety much already true.
And I suppose those ‘Hit this target and you win a free shirt at Micali Tailors’ wall panels were modern?
Walls near Washigton Square Park in downtown Manhattan are spartan compared to the walls around many stadiums. Those ‘free shirt’ walls are still on spring training and minor league stadiums.
Oh, please post it so we can all let him know how much he sucks instead of us just confirming it with each other.
I’m so afraid to ponder what he’s going to do next to fuck up the game.
Hey Bud, hope you aren’t wondering my the NFL and NASCAR are kicking your ass. You see, the NFL has market tie-ins that have nothing to do with the game or field. And NASCAR? Considering there wouldn’t be any racing if it weren’t for sponsors, it’s already built in.
I am as passionate a baseball fan as any living human, but after I sat and considered this story for a few minutes… well, I have to admit that I don’t think it’s really an issue. Every other sport’s plastering ads all over everything. I don’t even notice the advertising anymore.
There are uge ads on the ice of any NHL rink - like all Canadians, I love hockey - but if you asked me what specific companies advertise on the ice of the Air Canada Centre, which I have seen dozens of times, I can’t remember who they are. How can I be angry about something so irrelevant that I can’t remember anything about it the next day?
I despise Bud Selig. But I also do not jerk my knee every time MLB does something; it’s not automatically true that because Skeletor is the commish, every change is bad. Expanding the postseason was a good idea, for instance. His intransigence in not allowing Pete Rose back into the game is the right stance. This particular issue strikes me as being unimportant.
