Spidey's Safe! but are you safe from the ads?

[Book Lover]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/05/sports1437EDT0317.DTL

In the latest example of a sponsor's stamp on the sports world, ads for the movie "Spider-Man 2" will be placed atop bases at 15 major league ballparks during games from June 11-13.

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"I guess it's inevitable, but it's sad," said Fay Vincent, a former baseball commissioner and former president of Columbia Pictures, which is releasing "Spider-Man 2."

"I'm old-fashioned. I'm a romanticist. I think the bases should be protected from this. I feel the same way I do when I see jockeys wears ads: Maybe this is progress, but there's something in me that regrets it very much," he added.

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The ads, about 4-by-4-inches with a red background and yellow webbing, won't appear on home plate.


Now I am one of those people who hates sports, but, mores aside, wouldn't changing the color of the bases affect gameplay? My thinking is that making the base a darker color would help obscure it, especially as the game has gone on for a while and the bases start getting dirty. As for the mores of putting ads on the playing field, well, I'm sure you all can guess that I'm not for it.

[Amerpie]

1. Baseball died

sometime in the late 70s. It may actually have been the night Reggie Jackson hit those three homers against the Dodgers. It was certainly dead by the time they named the candy bar for him...

[Book Lover]

2. Whoops! I duped

unintentionally. Here's the first discussion:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1098286