Wednesday, January 23, 2008
IS NOTHING SACRED???
TOKYO (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox are putting advertisements on their uniforms for the first time.The World Series champions said Wednesday they will wear sleeve patches with the logo "EMC" when they open the season with a two-game series against the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome on March 22 and 23.
EMC Corp. is a data-storage company based in Hopkinton, Mass.
Ads usually are prohibited from uniforms in Major League Baseball, but the sport has made exceptions for games in Japan. The New York Mets and Chicago Cubs wore uniform patches for AIU insurance when they played in Tokyo in 2000 and batting helmet stickers for AM-PM markets.
When the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays played at the Tokyo Dome in 2004, their uniforms had white 3-inch patches on the shirt sleeves with the word "Ricoh" in red. Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina kept running his fingers over the patch to smooth it out. "Chico's Bail Bonds?" he suggested, a reference to the team sponsor in the movie "The Bad News Bears."
Posted at 9:52 PM by Gerry
3 Comments:
It's positively sacreligious - and I'm also convinced it's only a matter of time before MLB caves and allows it here to prop up some of the smaller market teams. Ughh!
The Kansas City Meineke Mufflers?
Hey, I remember the Raybestos Brakettes of Joan Joyce fame.
Roller Derby! Wow..I remember it too. And I guess we'll have to get used to the growing name changes in professional sports. But I thought the Red Sox were, and are, THE BOSTON RED SOX. PERIOD! THAT'S IT!!!
Well said, "LadyPatsFan." And remember, the Hartford Civic Center, AKA Veteran's Memorial Coliseum, is no more. That takes some getting used to! It seems like yesterday (well, maybe last week) that the roof caved in. Thank goodness the place was deserted.
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