Full face masks may severly limit sight but are reported to be quite comfortable.
When a deal was announced earlier this week between Major League Baseball and Sony films to post Spiderman logos on base bads and pitching mounds fans balked, cried foul and threatened an intentional walk.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters "we had to try to put down the suicide squeeze, as it were. It doesn't always work and this is one of those times where it was more suicide than squeeze. Now we're going back to the tried and true grand slam."
In lieu of the on-base ads fifteen teams will be donning Spiderman themed uniforms colored to match respective trademark color schemes. Selig justifies the move as being "as old as baseball. When Fruit of the Loom created the promotions involving the White Sox and Red Sox there was no outcry. Let's face it, we all love socks, we all wear socks. We didn't let them do argyle but we felt where they were coming from."
The players union had threatened a walk out over the uniform changes until a paltry sum of money was offered in exchange for their "knocking it off."
Much like player strikes, lousy parking and seven-buck beer night fans are expected to, as Mr. Selig suggests, "shut up and take it, nothing's changed."
