SPIDERMAN 2 to appear on bases in all Major League Baseball games!

[DarkStar]

Wow, advertising during sporting events has reached a new high, or sunk to a new low depending upon your opinion.

This is from the Drudge Report

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"SPIDERMAN 2 to appear on bases in all Major League Baseball games
Wed May 05 2004 11:52:49 ET

In a move that has purists howling, Major League Baseball has agreed to decorate its bases -- and pitching-mound rubbers and on-deck circles -- with a spider-web pattern as part of a promotion for the release of Sony Corp.'s "Spider-Man 2" next month.

The superhero sequel is set to open in theaters June 30. "`Spider-Man 2' Weekend" will start Friday, June 11, and all 15 MLB teams playing at home have agreed to participate for one or more games, the WALL STREET HOURNAL reported on Wednesday.

The deal is baseball's latest attempt to develop a splashier national marketing image. "In an ultracompetitive sports-entertainment environment, you have to take risks," says Tim Brosnan, MLB's executive vice president for business.

Developing..."
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Call me a "purist," but I think corporate influence on sports has to end somewhere. Just last week at the Kentucky Derby jockeys were selling advertising space on their pants! THEIR PANTS! This is just the next stage of the ever increasing trend of naming sporting arenas after corporations such as Invesco Field replacing the glorious name of Mile High for the Denver Broncos.

Pretty soon it won't be the Boston Red Sox anymore, it'll be the Prudential Red Sox. This is stupid.

 

[The Dark Elf]

hey anything that makes sport look silly and gradually ruins it till its not on TV anymore is a good thing

The upside, Spiderman2 woohoo! looking forward to that, loved the first one.

 

[DarkStar]

hey anything that makes sport look silly and gradually ruins it till its not on TV anymore is a good thing

Well, if you're not a fan of sports it's a good thing. For the other 90% of us who are fans of sports, this cheapening of the national passtime is decidedly bad.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Well, if you're not a fan of sports it's a good thing. For the other 90% of us who are fans of sports, this cheapening of the national passtime is decidedly bad.

But in defence of sport, even though I don't like it. It injects more money for it.

And a spiders web hardly hurts anything. Now, if they forced the players to run around in spiderman costumes even I could understand people being pissed about it

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I dunno, the stuff they wear now looks pretty silly...anyway, who wouldn't want to wear a spiderman costume?


Exhibit A - Showing superhero tendancies

Exhibit B

 

[The Dark Elf]

I dunno, the stuff they wear now looks pretty silly...anyway, who wouldn't want to wear a spiderman costume?


Exhibit A

Well I'm sure I'd look a bit silly in a spiderman costume, what with my beer gut. I wonder if you can get them with corsets.....

 

[GhostValkyrie]

I don't know how to feel.

I love both Spidey and baseball. If anything it's just a stronger bond between two imfamous American icons.

 

[Letters]

WTF, how are the players going to run to all the bases when they get stuck to them?

 

[GhostValkyrie]

Grrr...stupid 15 minute limit.

*infamous

I just saw a thing on CNBC about this. Some reporter thinks its a violation.
Maybe it is, but I absolutely love Spidey, and enjoy Baseball, too much to think it's bad. I like it.

 

[Fat Tony!]

hey anything that makes sport look silly and gradually ruins it till its not on TV anymore is a good thing

Agreed! Sport is so boring now.
Thats so pathetic of them why do they feel they need to comercialise everything? Ah well people dont watch baseball here

 

[fizzlephox]

What if a player has severe arachnaphobia and the web patterns affect his game in a negative way.

 

[Murray_H]

Is it me or is the story of Spiderman 2 like one of the Superman films?

 

[ComradeBadger]

I don't think I'll like Spiderman 2, I couldn't stand the awfully cheesey first film..

But this is marketing taken to stupid levels imo

 

[DarkStar]

*infamous

How are Spiderman and baseball "infamous?" That implies that they are famous for being bad...I'd say "famous" is a more appropriate word.

From http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/infamous:

Definition: [adj] having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"

Synonyms: disreputable, ill-famed, notorious

 

[DarkStar]

I don't think I'll like Spiderman 2, I couldn't stand the awfully cheesey first film..

But this is marketing taken to stupid levels imo

I'm glad someone agrees with me! Look, I like Spiderman just as much as the next guy, but the baseball owners aren't changing the bases because of their love of comics, they're doing it beacuse of the allmighty $, weakening the tradition of the game at the same time.

 

[blahblahblah]

I feel sick and disgusted. :x

I hate all of this cross marketing. Though I don't believe it is true, has to be taken out of context or something. Anyways, this will give us a good excuse to take out Bud Selig. :sniper:

 

[crabcakes66]

I hope this movie doesnt suck as bad as the first one.....



or as bad as hulk....or daredevil.......


I want a modern Superman movie god damnit.... or a silver surfer movie.

 

[GhostValkyrie]

How are Spiderman and baseball "infamous?" That implies that they are famous for being bad...I'd say "famous" is a more appropriate word.

From http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/infamous:

Definition: [adj] having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"

Synonyms: disreputable, ill-famed, notorious

Notorius doesn't mean something bad. And that's the basis for my meaning of infamous. And I said Spider-Man and Baseball are infamous American icons, which they are.

 

[Jackal hit]

Notorius doesn't mean something bad. And that's the basis for my meaning of infamous. And I said Spider-Man and Baseball are infamous American icons, which they are.

you mean notorious as in "having notoriety" right?

i don't really care, but some people might get confused i suppose...

 

[GhostValkyrie]

Yes, I do. Sorry I didn't spell it out for everyone else.

 

[DarkStar]

Notorius doesn't mean something bad. And that's the basis for my meaning of infamous. And I said Spider-Man and Baseball are infamous American icons, which they are.

You're looking at a synonym instead of the definition. AND you're only looking at ONE of the synonyms. Look at the definition, "having an exceedingly bad reputation." Sorry to nitpick, but the word "infamous" does indeed have negative connotations.

 

[GhostValkyrie]

Okay, okay.

But you know what I meant, nitpicker!

 

[Sprafa]

Godam these semantycal discussions in these forums....


And on-topic - I don't like sports nor "Spidey", especially not the movies.

 

[babywax]

I think we all know what this is really about.

 

[Sprafa]

ROFL babywax, I knew it!!

This is why I hate t3h Spid3r!!

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I don't think I'll like Spiderman 2, I couldn't stand the awfully cheesey first film..

"I'm Spiderman"
"With great power there must also come great responsibility
With great power there must also come great responsibility
With great power there must also come great responsibility
With great power there must also co..." - Uncle Ben dies :x
"Oh noes uncle ben!...Grrr"

Great dialogue...


Actually i quite liked the film.

 

[mortiz]

eurgh, I hated the first Spider-Man movie, I saw it at the cinema, thought it was so-so, got it on DVD (for free I must add, as a promotion deal) and I haven't been able to sit the whole way through since, even with commentry, it just gets so bad.

 

[Direwolf]

I thought it was appropriately cheesy for the material. I mean, its a comic book. Don't act like its Citizen Kane or anything.

 

[Baal]

This is retarded! I like baseball, unlike a lot of people I know.

I can't wait to see what it looks like...

If I was a player i'd be mad.

 

[AudioRage]

They're not doing it now.

Yahoo Story.

 

[GhostValkyrie]

I thought it was appropriately cheesy for the material. I mean, its a comic book. Don't act like its Citizen Kane or anything.

That's the best damn thing I've ever heard.

Ten cookies for this man!