Is it me, or is that getting a bit too much. So many things now have the name of some corporation attached to them like Chicago's All State Arena or the Old Comiskey Park (still won't use that one).
From the Barney & Clyde comic strip in the August 7th Chicago Tribune.
FRAME 1: Either Barney or Clyde (this is a new strip to me, is in his easy chair watching a baseball game on TV. The announcers says, "It's a beautiful day for baseball at Coors Field."
FRAME 2: "The Rockies are up 3-1 according to the Mitsubishi scoreboard." "Pitcher goes into his Rolex windup..."
FRAME 3: "Tulowitzki lifts a Jell-O pudding pop fly to second base. Clyde looking perplexed, "Okay, I'm a committed capitalist..."
FRAME 4: Announcer, "And it's caught for the third out of the Red Roof Inn-ing." Clyde, "But this is getting a little out of hand."
My feelings exactly.
Na Na Hey Hey. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
2 comments:
The big problem comes when the corporate sponsorship is resold to some other company, and then you hear a mention of something happening at some arena that you've never heard of before.
Perhaps they may be sticks in the mud, but at least with the Rose Bowl you always know what football game is being talked about. I can't imagine what the Kraft End Hunger (or whatever) bowl will be called next year - the Chevron Go For a Drive Bowl?
Of course, Liz nd I are going to the GoDaddy Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, in January, when Northern Illinois plays Arkansas State.
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