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May 06, 2004
MORE PROOF OF THE POWER OF THE MUDGE
Last week on his site, Tim suggested that Maureen Dowd was raiding my site for column ideas. Well, there's more proof tonight that Tim may be right, and that Dowd may not be along among the movers and shakers who listen to what the Mudge says -- though Tim may not be as happy about this example. Major League Baseball, clearly taking their cue after reading my angry post last night, today rescinded the ridiculous marketing decision to put Spiderman 2 logos on bases next month.
If you were checking the comments, you saw Tim & I going back and forth, with Tim inexplicably defending the decision. Well, score it Mudge 1, Tim 0. Actually, Tim... it was a rout. Take a gander at some of the other reaction out there:
"We saw some of the polls on the Internet that said that 71 and 81 percent of the fans didn't approve of it," said Geoffrey Ammer, president of worldwide marketing for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. "We listened to the fans. We never saw this coming, the reaction the fans had. It became a flashpoint -- the reaction was overwhelming."
Many baseball purists denounced the plan, including Fay Vincent, a former baseball commissioner and president of Columbia Pictures.
I think they made a good decision to change their minds," former commissioner Peter Ueberroth said. "I don't think it makes any sense at all. It's a clutter."
And the biggest proof of the Power of the Mudge? Check this quote from Oakland player Billy McMillan:
"I just wonder where this leads to. Will it be the Bad News Bears with Chico's Bail Bonds on the back of our uniforms?" he said.
Okay, look in the comments section for my baseball post from last night. Tell me they're not 'Mudge readers in MLB?
