For the 2nd straight year, we were guests of the Philadelphia Phillies on the occasion of Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2012. The statue is a one-of-a-kind, hand-carved, solid-wood statue, depicting Robinson in a 1955 home Dodger uniform. Everything you see on that statue is wood; the shoes, shoelaces, hat, skin, uniform: everything. Fans enjoyed taking photos with it all game long. It was a great experience and I want to thank the Phillies, particularly Kenny Johnson and Deb Rinaldi, for their work in making this come off so easily.
Jackie’s next stop is scheduled to be the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO, in time for this Summer’s All-Star game, which is in KC this year.
The Phillies crew gets some close ups of Jackie right off the bat.
The boys eat lunch behind the sign. It’s a long drive down for them and they need some fuel.
The boys each got a Phillie Phanatic from the guys at the Phillies. It was a very generous gift for them and they loved them! All day, they were our constant companions.
Here’s Gregg Murphy of the Phillies going over our in-game spot in the 5th inning. They could not get a camera to show the statue live, so they used the shots they had gotten earlier and we did the spot from the standing room section behind the left field foul pole. Murphy was very nice and put me at ease and the spot came off nice and relaxed.
The boys were tired but rallied in the suite. We only had an inning or two up there, because we have to be with the statue mostly, but we did get up there. The two gentlemen in the background are the fellows who played for the Phildelphia Stars in the early 1950′s. They signed the ball we got last year and we were glad to see them again. The Tuskegee Airmen were in a different suite and I got over there in time to speak to a few of them and that was a real nice treat. They are great guys and the country should be aware of their sacrifices under trying conditions.
The boys pose with their Phanatics.
The boys loved the doughnut car and even got some freebies.
All in all, it was a wonderful day. Both boys were old enough to go and really enjoyed it. The Phillies’ staff was just great as always and we hit all of our marks during the day. Many, many people said very nice things about the statue and it’s always great to get the statue out in front of baseball fans and hear their comments. It makes all the hours spent covered with sawdust seem worth it. Thanks, everybody. Hope to see you next year.
Yankee fans: This is why you lost. You made the guy take his big, facial band-aid off. Bad Kharma. Big loss.
If I were the promo guy in Detroit, I would work a deal with J&J to give every fan in attendance a big, square facial band-aid when the Yankees come to town. Great promo. Love to see it.
I read a report on a study while waiting in a deli. I don’t have a link for it, unfortunately. The study measured whether frequent video gamers are better drivers. Findings? They are not.
They are actually more prone to accidents, tickets and road rage. This is something I didn’t need the study to just know in my bones. There are certain cars you see treating traffic on a morning commute like a video game. They take risks all out of proportion with any time saved (usually very little to none). And you can imagine that some of them are very taken with their own “skills”, to the point where they are kind of “showing off” to us lesser drivers.
To them I say, “we know you CAN do this or that, but you really SHOULDN’T”. Even if you are super skillful, there are all sorts of people on the roads and the populations’ skill level is the old bell shaped curve. I call it the rule of “mom”. You must picture every other car being driven by your mom. Would you tailgate then? Would you flash brights? Flip them off? Cut them off? If mom doesn’t work for you, then picture Jesus. Ask yourself the same questions. He died for all the dumb things you ever did: would you still cut him off?
The study posited that perhaps the video gaming removed the thought of real world consequences from these folks. Sure. I’ll buy some of that.
Add to all this, the fact that in other studies I have read, volume tie-ups are actually CAUSED by the most selfish drivers. Yup, because they go too fast and travel too close to the guy ahead of them, they have to over react to speed changes, and that slowing down propogates backwards through traffic until someone is stopped dead and traffic piles up behind them. Once that happens, the only way to undo it, is one car at a time, from the front.
So the guy flashing you the brights and passing you with inches to spare to shame you; he’s not only endangering your life (and property), he’s actually making you late on a good many days. And you thought he might be a good guy because of that big, giant, NY in the back window of his black SUV…
I keep hearing this. “The NFL is Socialist”. You also hear it when you complain that the Yankees take the field every night with an AVERAGE payroll advantage of 115 million! That’s AVERAGE. About half the time, yea, it’s worse. That’s a joke, right (well, not to Yankee fans who are in mass denial)? No, Yankee fans cry that if you have a problem with that, then you want “Socialism” for MLB.
There’s one problem with that. It’s 1000% wrong. The term “Socialism” describes the relationship between a government and its people. Got it?
When you talk about the NFL, or MLB, you are talking about an individual business. These businesses sell a product to the public. The product happens to be a fair sporting contest on the field between professional athletes. By “fair”, we mean, at a minimum, that the outcome is not known to any great degree, beforehand (that’s wrestling). That’s why players gambling is frowned upon; because the whole thing rests on the public TRUSTING that the games are honestly competed on the field.
Sharing revenue or capping expenditures, ENHANCES that which the business is selling: fair, honest competition on the field. It apples to oranges to even mention “Socialism” at this point.
If you DO NOT limit expenditure disparity (read: New York Yankees), then you have an UNFAIR system where outcomes are not totally in doubt.
Why hasn’t this system glitch been addressed in MLB? Well, the owners that bought the teams (including the Yankees) bought into an unfair system, and to change it with them holding the team, would diminish the value of their asset. That’s a tough sell. Good luck.
The other reason it has never changed is TV money. The biggest post season numbers come from the biggest markets and that drives the biggest revenue generator, the national TV package. So the on-the-field bias, translates into a nice bias at the cash register. Again, good luck changing that one. It’s patently unfair, but it works FOR them. Look, even the Mafia knew in 1930, to split New York into 5 zones! Having NY compete with Pittsburgh or KC is patently ABSURD!
Why else is it permitted? Well….er…Yankee fans LIKE IT! They like beatdowns and they have convinced themselves that it isn’t unfair. With an irrational mass denial akin to political or religious fervor, they have opted to “look away”. They like to feel “superior” in their fandom. There’s nothing wrong with what they do–only with what others do. Heck, it’s to the point where Yankee fans will advocate with a straight face, that super rich men should buy the small market teams and operate them at tens of millions in losses each year out of their own pockets! Just so Yankee fans don’t feel, ahh, you know, guilty, about outspending the rest of the league by an average of 114 million in 2010 and 115 million a night in 2011. Great.
Socialism to ensure your product actually IS what you say it IS? No, not even close. If MLB was a drug company, they’d be shut down because their product does not live up to it’s label (Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906). Imagine that. But there’s nothing to see here.
Recently completed: a solid-wood, hand carved, life size statue of Curt Schilling’s leg (yes, leg). The sculpture will be auctioned off to benefit ALS at a future date to be determined.
I had a ball making this item and I really like it although it generates some interesting responses, from bemused to, “who’s Curt Schilling?” from the non-sporting crowd. I have had it in front of people and the responses have been nice.
I got so tired of people not understanding that my art was 100% wood, even, at times, when they were standing in front of it and being told by me that it was wood. You would be surprised. So with this piece, I put it right out there and I plan on doing that with all of my pieces from now on.
* And before anyone asks me, I’ll tell you. ALS is handling the auction. It’s not on any fast track right now. Yes, I have tried to contact Curt Schilling through social media to propose the idea that he sign it to give it legs in the auction. Since I’m not making a dime off of it, I figured that I’d at least be acknowledged and to date I have not been. Am I disappointed in that? Well, to be completely honest, I am a little, I have to admit, but, I know he’s doing this huge launch to a product that his company has sweated blood to produce, so I understand the busyness.
I know he has people coming at him from all angles with his gaming company and on and on, so I do respect the demands placed on him, however, when someone spends the time I did, meticulously creating an art object for a charity auction for a cause that he champions, then I would hope for an acknowledgement at least. Even if the answer is “no”, which it could easily be. He may be uncomfortable getting too close to something that might appear self-serving. I would totally respect that. But I would like to at least hear, “message rcvd. great work. sorry, no can do good luck”. That’s it. Would that be too much? I read 10 tweets a day from him about the video games and sundry so it’s not like he’s not plugged in. Oh well, everything happens for a reason. So don’t ask me this question again! Got it? haha. Thanks.
Addendum: The Jackie Robinson statue looks like it will be appearing at Citizens Bank Park for the Mets-Phils on Sun April 15, 2012, but I do not have confirmation on that as of right now. It’s a strong possibility however. Love to see everyone there. Day game! Very pleased that the schedule makers did that.
Also, I am in talks with the Negro League Baseball Museum to have Jackie shipped out to Kansas City and displayed at the museum through the All-Star Game period. I’m very happy about that as well. Jackie belongs there and I hope a lot of folks get to see him.
Robbie Fowler still has the white suit. He is blase about it saying that if they’d won, no one would care, and I think he’s right about that. So much of media stuff deliberately manufactured and manipulated. Have a look at newsbusters.org any day to read examples from bias to outright lies.
Anyway, my brother and I have a fascination with Fowler and I had not seen the white suits in years. I still recall the sting of Cantona’s goal. I was at O’Donahue’s on 1st Street in Hoboken, NJ. I recall the ball brushed Ian Rush as it went by and I always thought, “…how odd that his last touch in Red was that one.” Cruel really. Things like that made yesterday all the more sweet.
There was one alarming piece of news regarding the Downing transfer. It is theorized that Werner and Henry were duped by this video of Downing putting balls into trash cans willy-nilly, from 30 yards. If you play footy, you know instantly that this is doctored footage. Once or twice you could get lucky, but it’s clearly not real. And even if it were, the game of football has so many different skills, that even if you could do that, it wouldn’t guarantee that you’d be a top EPL player!
So the urban legend that is building is that the stupid Americans got duped by this video and overpaid for Downing. While I’d like to think there was SOME explanation for it, this is bad. This will turn the fans on the American owners and now, as soon as anything negative turns up, the ire will be directed at John Henry. The Yanks need to do some serious damage control asap! This is not a good thing longterm. They’ll never live this down. They have gone from the guys who swooped in and, with Liverpool 4 hours from bankruptcy, saved the team and righted the ship. It was a great platform from which to start, but, I’m afraid, is pretty much undone in this one story, true or not.
Being that Henry made millions in farm futures, you are pretty sure that there is no grass growing under him. I don’t believe that their due dilligence was limited to this doctored video. I don’t doubt that the video might have piqued their interest, but I would like to think they did more homework, but, with the fans we’re looking at, it won’t much matter once this becomes accepted as “the version” of what went down. They don’t need much convincing to buy the “Americans are stupid and know nothing about soccer” meme. Henry might just as well show up at Anfield in a white suit next time. Is he Fowler’s size? The suit still hangs and is a phone call away.
The Cards just look ready and centered for this. Seeing Ron Washington send up Esteban German, who had not had an at bat since Sep 15, and he strikes out with a man on second…brutal.
Cards in 5 or 6. I have rarely or ever seen a team so poised to play postseason as LaRussa’s group is. They KNOW they will win. They conduct themselves like that. Baseball is mental and the Cards have that conquered.
I loved Joe Buck comparing LaRussa to John J. McGraw. McGraw was hated in his time. Edd Roush didn’t want to go play for him. He lost the 1908 pennant because he was hated. Good analogy for Tony? haha. I can not deny, however, the degree to which I feel the Cards are READY for this. They are out ahead of the game. You want to use the phrase dujour? The game “slows down” for them.
I actually find that “slowing down the game” to be a very apt description of it. Since I have started playing soccer again, for the first time since the mid 80′s, I really feel that is very descriptive.
When you are not confident, you tend to feel that there is LESS TIME to do something, than in actuality. The great clarinetist and bandleader, Artie Shaw, had one of my favorite quotes. I read it 30 years ago and still dredge it up from time to time. Folks gushed about his playing and he downplayed it by saying something along the lines of [I'm paraphrasing] “There is more time than you realize between things that seem to happening very fast”. He was talking about “fast” in a musical setting of course, but his point is that with practice, you can gain familiarity and effectively LENGTHEN the time that you have to make decisions, between closely spaced events.
In soccer recently, I have seen this in spades. Even though I haven’t played in 30 years with people, (except for a handful of pickup games), I have spent hours hitting the ball, two footed, off of walls. It’s a form of cardio exercise that I have always enjoyed. So my footy skills are decent, but my game vision is not!
When I first started back up, I would feel that I had no time to do things, ergo, I rushed them and had really bad results. I resorted to consciously trying to slow myself down–slowing down my decision making; picking up my head and looking around. All of a sudden, I wasn’t forcing passes that weren’t there. The great Jan Molby, of Liverpool, once said to Jamie Rednap, “…you can’t play what you don’t see”. And he’s right. It’s not enough to have a hunch that a blur in your peripheral vision is a runner with the right color shirt on, you have to SEE it and KNOW that they are there.
So it’s counter intuitive, but by slowing down YOUR reactions, you actually have better results, because your brain needs an extra beat to take in information and process it before you act on it. Now in soccer, you might make 30 or 40 key decisions in a game, if not more. But a fielder in a world series baseball game? Maybe he makes 3 or 4 key decisions; maybe even just one per game. You don’t get the chance at redemption in pressure baseball, is my point. You better get that decision right.
One step in on a ball over your head? Throw to the wrong base in a bunt situation? Very little room for error, so the team that can slow it down enough to make the correct decision, is, like Artie Shaw, aware that there is a beat more time to make these decisions than the inexperienced panicking player THINKS there is.
And bear in mind that the ability to calm yourself and remain in this “calm-but-centered” state is difficult to maintain! It’s not as easy as just THINKING it! It’s a well-honed discipline. For me, in soccer, sometimes making an early dopey decision can actually SHARPEN it! And sometimes, it can wreck it. While you can “find” it mid-game, I feel that more often, it’s a product of your mental attitude before the game. How do you feel? Do you feel strong? Are you excited to play? Or did you just look at the forward you will be covering and get that sense of dread, as in, “…I can’t go step-for-step with that guy!”
What I’m saying is that it’s a mental approach that can not be faked or manufactured and yet it is so important to performance, particularly under pressure. The team that can generate this feeling of confidence and maintain it, will prevail–it is often the difference. It can also be said, I believe, of managers and coaches and gaffers. It can also be contagious among team mates and coaxed at times among team mates.
Look for this in the games that are left. Ask yourself which team seems more confident in the moment? And realize that it doesn’t always mean that the player with this feeling will always get a hit–always succeed. It just means what Bobby Thomson told himself on Oct 3, 1951, before he hit “The Shot Heard Around the World”. He went up to hit thinking, “…give yourself a CHANCE to hit”.
After 3 hours of sleep, it was up at 3am and driving down from NY with the Jackie Robinson statue to do the first of many interviews and appearances at Fox. Ably assisted by Kenny Johnson and Deb Rinaldi of the Phillies, we hit our marks out in front of Fox at 7:20am. A few teaser shots and then a short interview with Fox 29′s John Anderson. Click here to see the interview in a new window
Here’s a small clip my brother took from a little way away during the Uke Washington interview:
Then it was on to a community Jackie Robinson Event at the Philadelphia Stars Memorial at Belmont and Parkside Aves, in Philadelphia. That crossroads was the location of the Philadelphia Stars ballpark. The Stars were Philly’s entry in the old Negro League. Later this day, my family would get to meet two of the last surviving members of that franchise.
There were many groups attending and special promotions from the Phillies. The children were having a ball and posed for this photo.
There were several groups and this particular group did a dance number before posing.
There were many nice monuments marking the site and those who were a part of it. I really enjoyed meeting regular folks from this community and just listening to the older fellows tell me how much Jackie Robinson and Monte Irvin and Larry Doby meant to them growing up. You know, when you do an event like this, those dusty pages in a history book become real live anecdotes and recollections and it was amazing to take it all in. It was also very flattering to hear the very sincere compliments for the statue. When you spend that long covered with itchy sawdust, it is very gratifying to hear these things and see the sparkle in their eyes, as opposed to words on a page.
Here we are finally at The Bank. It’s early; well before batting practice and my amazing handlers with the Phillies (Kenny Johnson & Deb Rinaldi) lined up a couple of more interviews. The first was with John Mayberry, the man who’s hit won the exciting Phils opener. I don’t have any photos of that interview but it went very well and it was nice to see and hear John’s reaction to the statue. It was probably the first time I had spoken to someone who was directly in line with Robinson’s courageous work, so it was extra special for me.
After that piece, we did a short interview with Comcast out in dead center field. What a beautiful backdrop! I have been to 40 different major league ballparks in my lifetime and Citizens’ Bank Park is my favorite building. Everything about it just feels right.
All night it was the same thing: folks lined up in a semi circle around it, taking photos and asking questions. It never gets old. I met some really tremendous people and heard just an amazing array of stories and anecdotes about Robinson, Civil Rights, baseball, art and on and on. This part of it is easy and never feels like work.
By this point in the day, I’m feeling my 3 hours of sleep and nonstop itinerary pretty acutely, however, a great subplot was that my 3.5 year old son, Thomas, came to the game and it was his first time in a big league ballpark! What a way to break in! His uncle Bob, shown below, was holding him up to see the Phillies take batting practice and he caught a BP homer left handed while holding Thomas in his right hand! So on his first game day, Thomas gets a ball!
Later on this evening, Thomas got the ball signed by the last two remaining Phildelphia Stars and for that I am very grateful and want to thank both the Stars and again, my Phillies guardian angel, Kenny Johnson. Kenny is just a pro’s pro and he hit his marks (and kept me hitting mine) all day long with aplomb. He put on a clinic. It’s a pleasure to watch someone do something that they are so good at, whether it be art, or sports, or even business.
Below is Thomas showing off his baseball. How great is that?
Here’s the family; my wife Carol and Thomas (Jack Benny is too little and is spending the day with his grandparents). I’m looking a bit tired by this point and perhaps a bit cold as the temp dropped towards gametime, but on April 15th in the East, you are going to have that. I was just thanking God all day that there was no rain as that was the one thing that would have given us a problem.
Since my statues are 100% solid wood, they will not hold up to weather, so it was a concern. All around baseball, there are many life size statues that honor players but they are all bronze. Bronze is great for holding up to weather and can be outdoors permanently. But Bronze is one color. The great thing about the wooden statues is that I can show color and isn’t baseball a colorful thing anyway? Add to that the color component of the Robinson story and it makes a nice fit. There are currently no color statues such as this permanently residing in any major league ballpark. Wouldn’t it be nice (and somehow fitting) for this statue to be the first?
After a little breather, I did two more spots thanks to Deb Rinaldi and Kenny Johnson. The first was a spot right behind the statue that went very well. It was what they call a “talkback”, which means, I wore an earpiece and had to listen for a cue from an unseen host. It was hard to hear with the crowds and I was worried that I would miss the cue or not be able to make out what the host was asking me, but it turned out to be the best one all day just about. I think I was too tired to be nervous! I’ll tell you, I have new respect for anyone who makes their living with a mike and a camera. They make it look easy–it isn’t.
Here’s what it looked like. I sure look rigid in this shot, but I felt pretty loose, all in all.
After that, I had to run halfway around the stadium and do a pregame radio spot and that was fun and went really well. By then I suppose, it didn’t seem so strange to be doing this stuff.
On the way back to the statue from the plate area, I heard my voice on the PA and quickly ran down the tunnel to the seating area, so that I could see the Phanavision screen. They were showing my 2 minute video which I had narrated. It was the strangest sensation to hear my voice blaring around Citizens Bank Park like that, but there it was. It was a day of things like that and one that I’ll never forget.
I mentioned that two of the old Philadelphia Stars had signed Thomas’ ball and here are their names on the statue by their old stomping grounds which we had visited earlier.
The gentlemen who signed were Mahlon Duckett and Harold Gould. I also got a chance to meet some of the Tuskegee Airmen and that was a big thrill. My father and just about all of my uncles were WWII vets. Men of that generation shaped me more than any other and I have read a great deal about that war and so it was just tremendous to shake the hand of men who flew Jugs and P-51′s against the Germans in those dark days.
Guys like that gave us a lot of freedom and I think it gets taken for granted sometimes, unfortunately. The Tuskegee Airmen, not only had to deal with bombs and bullets, but the institutionalized racism of the day: a double whammy. They are great men for having done all of that and children should know their story.
And again and again, all night, folks stopped by to talk, take photos and ask questions. It was great.
April 15th 2011, a day in which the Jackie Robinson statue went many places and met many nice folks, hopefully, making them happy and spreading awareness of what went on, not that long ago. The statue is tentatively slated to visit the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City later this Summer but as of right now, there are no details.
I want to thank the Philadelphia Phillies for all of their support. I have worked with various organizations and baseball clubs through the years, but I have never seen the professionalism and can-do spirit that I did these past few weeks while working with the Phillies. As I have said, much of that was through the hard work of Kenny Johnson and Deb Rinaldi, who made it easy to do all of these things without one single hitch. As I look back at the itinerary and see all the marks we hit from 7am to 10pm, I am amazed that it went so seamlessly and that is a testament to their diligence. I hope to work with them again in the future.
Here’s my takeaway shot for the day: the first time my little buddy is at a big league game. It was filled with memorable things. I have to wonder, however, that at 3 and a half, will he remember it years from now? I hope he does. I know I will.
Thanks for all the kind words and stories! Enjoy the game.
Yankee Payroll: 208 Million
Texas Payroll: 55 Million
Difference: 153 Million.
I was listening to Michael Kay today on the radio. He went through the playoff stuff and golly, he just didn’t ever mention that there’s a 155 Million dollar difference between the teams. Why is that? I’m serious. Isn’t that a material fact about this matchup that folks ought to know before they tune it in? Baseball does an amazing job of obfuscating the ELEPHANT in the room, that is, the Yankee payroll.
The obfuscation talking points are well worn:
* They don’t win it EVERY year
* They pay other teams salaries with their revenue share and luxury tax
* Other teams spend a lot too, you know. The Phillies spent 142 million this year.
208. 55. 153. Tinker-to-Evers-to-FAT CHANCE!
And I find it just hilarious that the dopey Yankee callers are just apoplectic about Cliff Lee. You dump out a piggy 208 million and yet you STILL are INSECURE enough to cry about a pitcher that might actually give your All-Star team a game? bahahaha!
And inevitably, you hear, “well, he’s ours next year”. Yup. If at first you don’t succeed, buy, buy, buy.
Then I had to hear Michael Kay running the Mets organization. He was whining in a high pitched wail that the Mets HAD to hire the 62 year old Sandy Alderson. That’s it. Case closed. Because Michael Kay said so, that’s why. His sidekick asked him for reasoning–he got shouting and chanting and repeating in return. They had to hire him. HAD TO! No detail. No cogent arguments. It was like Joy Behar. There will be no reasoning here: I’m right!
Memo to Kay: If you’re going to be that adamant about something, dontchathink you should have some specific points to back up your strong opinion? Because, “…the Wilpons are dummies, I know better”, wouldn’t win a high school debating team gig.
And he also doesn’t distinguish between running a business and managing it and keeping tabs on it with knowledge in a specialty. Look, I’m no fan of the Wilpons, but even if they don’t know ANYthing about baseball, they still have the right to interview people and run their BUSINESS!~ It’s their business, guys. If the P&L says “L”, it’s THEIR “L”, not yours, Michael Kay.
What if they want to talk to Stan Kasten? I would. What if they don’t want someone 62 years old? Why is the commisioner foisting a guy on them? Would his buddy Steinbrenner like that? Ooooh nooo0, he’s “The Boss”, it says so on the garish, tasteless uniform patches above every Yankee’s breast.
I’d stitch a big red 153 there. The interlocking NY is interlocked with insecurity. –fog
I have railed about it before. Noise at ballgames. Not the natural noise of the game, mind you, but the incessant noise pumped in over the PA’s during every single lull in the game. Walk-up music. Between innings music that makes just conversing with the person in the seat next to you, a challenge. Many is the time I’ve come back from games absolutely horse! And not from yelling at the ballgame–just from trying to discuss things in the seats!
The marketing departments got a hold of our game and ruined it by insisting that every single open moment in the game was filled with [air quotes] entertainment, as if a 35 year old BTO song at ear-bleeding volume is entertaining to ANYone. I don’t know anyone who likes this stuff. Look, we’re baseball fans. We like a leisurely pace. We like to talk strategy and fantasy and what did this guy do last week, last month, last year. We KNOW when the game is coming to a head because we are fans–we don’t need endless sound effects to pump us up. It’s beyond ridiculous.
So as the reader(s) knows, I have gone to most parks in the country (40 and counting) and have this same complaint at every joint I go to. This weekend, I was at the Nationals’ Park in DC. I was on biz, so I was alone, which can be a weird experience at times, but thankfully, I sat next to two decent, knowledgeable and funny guys and we had a good time kibitzing about the game over the noise.
I gave the guy my website and he looked at my lifesize baseball statues and shot a quick email and I shot one back. He mentioned that he is an attorney. I said that he should launch a class action suit and that I would like to be listed as a plaintiff. I said he should sue the Nats for hearing loss for the in-game noise that they subject us to. I said to sue for $1.00 only–just make a point for publicity’s sake.
Today he wrote back: “Fog: True, a great game, but an even better idea! We’ll do it under the DC Consumer Protection Act. We need a DC resident as first named plaintiff, but we’ll fit you in somewhere!”
So I may have struck a blow for the obnoxious in-game experience at major league games! And it’s ironic that it will originate in DC–fitting really. Stay tuned to this one, it could be amusing.
–Fog
