01.27.09 PROMOTIONAL GIMMICKS WE CAN BELIEVE IN
So the White Sox are trying to sell this commemorative hat that has Barack Obama’s name and campaign logo on it. Sounds great, but how am I supposed to eat dinner on it?
The club has developed two prototype designs of its club hat with Obama marks on the side and back. The hats have been approved by MLB Properties.[...]
The White Sox enjoy a special relationship with the newly inaugurated president due to his roots in south Chicago. Should the hat happen as intended, proceeds from its sale would be donated to charities, likely ones that provide services near U.S. Cellular Field.
The team needs approval from the president before it can start selling the caps.
I’m not a big fan of a private entity proclaiming such a happy association with a sitting president. Unless it’s a big oil company. Or a multinational defense contractor. Those are relationships that I can live with. But baseball? Why don’t you make me put on a Russian uniform and ice skate across Red Square while you’re at it? At least in Moscow they still kill hookers for sport. It’s days like this that make me really miss the Cold War.
[SBJ, via Sun-Times Blog]
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PROMOTIONAL GIMMICKS WE CAN BELIEVE IN
The Cubs are petitioning baseball to allow them to win a playoff game. Request denied.
Better than the Red Sox commemorative JFK “speedhole” cap.
The Texas Rangers wish they’d thought of this.
I haven’t loved the White Sox ths much since the McDowell era. But that was only because he was friends with Eddie Vedder. This is much cooler.
It’s too bad the Negro League doesn’t exist anymore, because having a black president probably would have been very inspirational for the players.
The Texas Rangers wish they’d thought of this.
They did. Every hat of theirs was sold with no brain underneath it.
Does War Machine want to fuck this hat?
You can’t put ‘em on the (water)board, yes!
proceeds from its sale would be donated to charities, likely ones that provide services near U.S. Cellular Field.
Being a born and raised Sox fan, I know the charities they’re referring to. Ones like The Stabbed in the Liver Foundation, Robert Taylor Homes Makeover Society, and the It’s Getting Dark Out Let’s Get the Fuck Outta Here Association.
Are they going to be the half black sox now?
So now we can expect to go 88 years between Democratic Presidents?
Can I get one with a brim all the way around and a feather sticking out of it?
From each according to his ability, To each according to his hat size.
Barry’s a sox fan?! Holy shit - that means that there’s a sox fan that has a job!!!! I never thought I’d see the day. (Sure it’s just a gub’mint job, but still - a job.)
I’ve got some subpoenas ready for these bastards.
Do you turn the brim a little to the side for street cred?
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