So done with these assholes. I have not paid for cable for years, don't feel like the radio at the moment, so I did what I have always done - gone to the mlb "Gameday" thingie, where I watch the equivalent of the old stick figures that they used to have on mounted billboards before the days of TV. It's surprisingly okay, if a bit weird. Anyway, MLB now makes you watch commercials on those in between innings, as though they are not making enough on every other level or platform. I am so sick of it.
Yes, "It's a business. Get over it." But guess what? It's also a drag. I have a distinct memory of - at some point in my youth - was it the late 60s or the early 70s? - when more than two commercials in a row shocked me. That was my first inkling that I was being used bigly, as some asshole once said. Exploited. And there were ad men in my family. I worked once, in another lifetime, in PR and advertising. Fuck them all. And then the internet came along where - SoylentGreen-like - WE became the fucking product. It's unseemly after a while.
Just like having politicians PRETEND to not be greedy racists, at least PRETENT that it's a game, that you care about the fans. Just PRETEND. Put up the mask of plausible illusion, just so that we don't feel like the suckers that you and we already know we are. Fuck you, Hal and your shitface cohort.
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First pitch now scheduled for 9:10
ReplyDeleteSchlitz has succumbed to marketing dopes.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, our schlitz will fare better.
https://artvoice.com/2026/05/20/schlitz-beer-discontinued-after-177-years-and-the-last-batch-is-being-brewed-this-saturday/
Rufus ?
DeleteWhen you’re out of Schlitz…
DeleteYes, are you missing schlitz too?
DeleteWanted to make sure that you had enough tissues
DeleteNot gonna lie Ruf, I miss many things from the old days. Such is life.
DeleteSo done with these assholes. I have not paid for cable for years, don't feel like the radio at the moment, so I did what I have always done - gone to the mlb "Gameday" thingie, where I watch the equivalent of the old stick figures that they used to have on mounted billboards before the days of TV. It's surprisingly okay, if a bit weird. Anyway, MLB now makes you watch commercials on those in between innings, as though they are not making enough on every other level or platform. I am so sick of it.
ReplyDeleteYes, "It's a business. Get over it." But guess what? It's also a drag. I have a distinct memory of - at some point in my youth - was it the late 60s or the early 70s? - when more than two commercials in a row shocked me. That was my first inkling that I was being used bigly, as some asshole once said. Exploited. And there were ad men in my family. I worked once, in another lifetime, in PR and advertising. Fuck them all. And then the internet came along where - SoylentGreen-like - WE became the fucking product. It's unseemly after a while.
Just like having politicians PRETEND to not be greedy racists, at least PRETENT that it's a game, that you care about the fans. Just PRETEND. Put up the mask of plausible illusion, just so that we don't feel like the suckers that you and we already know we are. Fuck you, Hal and your shitface cohort.
To paraphrase Orwell: “Never listen when they tell you that Owners and the fans have a common interest… It is all lies.”
DeleteWell argh-ticulated!
DeleteBitty, you are heard.
ReplyDeleteCam StrictHell !!
ReplyDeleteBut Bitty? Yes, yes, yes, a thousand time yes: Fuck HAL.
ReplyDeleteGrisham hurt.
ReplyDeleteAnd the Yankees can’t handle Yesavage.
Here comes a run
DeleteDidn’t say which team though
ReplyDeleteWell, unless Jalen Brunson is available, this lead is insurmountable.
ReplyDeleteGreat rant, Bitty! And as for Grisham...is he dead? I kid, I kid. Just want him to miss the next few months.
ReplyDeleteCruz just became the new closer.
ReplyDeleteVolpe isn’t good at anything, is he.
ReplyDeleteJudge looks like he’s 44, not 34.
ReplyDeleteI thought 74
DeleteRosario swings at a pitch at eyeball level to end the game. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteScalding hot jism not enough tonight.
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