Needed 6, got nine, although he didn’t appear to have anywhere near his best stuff going. No. 4137 came in the fifth, when he struck out Raul Mondesi swinging. With Nolan Ryan at 5700-something, however, I’d say that particular record’s safe.
I’m not much of a stats hound, really, but it was fun to be in the park for something of a historical event, even though I was far enough away to have serious trouble following the ball.
Let me jump in here as well.
I don’t mind plastering the walls, cup holders, and scoreboards with ads. Revenue (supposedly) leads to better baseball. In fact, here in San Francisco, we didn’t pay a dime of tax dollars for what could be the moist beautiful ballpark in existence, so, for all I care, call it Tampax Diamond. Thanks for the park, Tampax!
But leave the field alone. Outfield walls? Fine. Giant Coke bottles? Fine. Sponsored giveaways? Fine. But leave the god damn baseball diamond alone.
I seriously couldn’t care less about this. How does putting an advertisement on the bases affect the game? Not at all, that’s how. Out of all the jackassed things that Bud Selig has done to the game of baseball, this is so low on the scale that it’s ridiculous.
I don’t care if there are ads on the bases. Hell, I don’t care if there are ads on the uniforms, or if players agree to sell tattooed ad space on their foreheads - it doesn’t do a damned thing to the game, except maybe making the poor announcer take another three seconds to get the ad text in. And, hell, maybe that’s three fewer seconds that Joe Morgan or Tim McCarver get to say something abysmally stupid, thereby making the viewing of a ballgame immensely better.
In fact, I’m calling “Chico’s Bail Bonds” as a sponsor for the Cubs right now.
I was just wondering what “d**” means.
Are you sure? Think of the cliches:
“Neifi Perez sure plugged that hole at shortstop!”
“After giving up 8 runs this inning, the Giants are really looking to the bullpen to come in and stop the bleeding.”
“Nice change-up by Williams. Looks like he pulled the string on it at the end.”
It means “dip” of course. Baseball has a long history of chewing tobacco and dip. It’s no longer PC to do so the OP used the **.
If it wasn’t against the rules, “d**” could mean die, but if he meant that, he couldn’t type it out or explain what whatever he typed meant die.
I’m a bit perplexed as to how this is supposed to be effective advertizing.
Just look at that thing. The only people who’ll be able to see it and make out what it is will be baserunners. Fans are just going to see a reddish splotch on the base covers.
“Honey, is that a Spiderman ad, or did somebody break his nose diving for third?”
I’m sitting here, watching the Padres-Braves game, and the announcers brought up the Spiderman ad thing. Neither of them like the idea. However, one of them did say something along the lines of “Do you really think a teenager who can go to a movie and neck is going to sit there and stare at second base for three hours?” To which I reply, “Well, it depends on the girl now, doesn’t it?”
I grew up watching Albuquerque Dukes AAA baseball. I’m used to the gimmicks like “Hit a homer over this section of the wall and get $100” and even the on-field, between-innings fan competitions like throwing a ball through a hole. However, those have nothing on actually putting an ad on the playing surface and I don’t like it. Then again, I think I’m an old fogey when it comes to the game (and I’m only 21! :eek: )
ESPN Radio quoted Winston Churchill this morning in regards to this story.
“Madam, we’ve already established what kind of woman you are. Now, we are negotiating a price.”
Quoting Trevor Hoffman on Headline News:
“I’ll tell you what, I think you’re opeining up a can of worms that could effect the integrity of the game in a sense.”
Integrity? In professional sports? Really? Where? When (in the past 10 years)?
Where are you seeing that the Brew Crew turned a profit? This site says they lost $133 million last year, although things are looking up.
This always happens to me when I don’t read the article closely…
Since nobody’s mentioned it, I figured you should all know that MLB pulled the plug:
Well I’m sure Sony is happy, they probably got more publicity from this then the other way.
Oh, good. When do we address interleague play, the designated hitter, the All-Star Game World Series advantage…?
I double… no triple dog dare you to post it. 
Post it? Nah, I’m certain the mods wouldn’t like that too much. There are other ways of getting it out of me, though.
I suppose a story is in order here. One of my teammates had a friend who did an internship at MLB HQ. This friend gave the number to my friend, who in turn gave it to most of our team.
Fast forward to last summer’s Champagne Breakfast. After downing two bottles of bubbly and countless pancakes, I decided to give ol’ Bud a call. I got to talk to his secretary, and drunkenly yelled “Tell Bud to do somethin about the damn Tigers!” after which I drunkenly hung up.
This season, the Tigers started off hot. Coincidence? Probably, but I’ll pretend not.
Considering I’m a Brewer’s fan, the Tigers are doing pretty damn good this year.
As to the previous post about the Brew Crew losing money, just juxtapose the finances of the Brewer’s with the bottom line of Enron in 1999. 
Dude, it works on you subliminally!
Now, I’m not referring to the discredited notion that commercial artists airbrush the word ‘sex’ into the ice cubes in a printed Cutty Sark ad, but over and over you see these logos.
You may not think that you remember them, and though it may be true that you cannot consciously retrieve the names of these advertisers from your brain, believe me, the names are there at a subconscious level and they affect your buying behaviour, whether you think so or not.
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