Ads on MLB Uniforms

actually I said I think it would make things even more unequal.. but im not familiar with revenue sharing.. would the ad money be shared at all? (if this ever happened)

 

actually I said I think it would make things even more unequal.. but im not familiar with revenue sharing.. would the ad money be shared at all? (if this ever happened) .. my understanding is mlb doesnt really have revenue sharing as much as other leagues.. I know they do if you spend a certain amount of money on salary..

 

I think it would make baseball seem like little league all over again. It would sort of take away from the nostalgia, and from a player's point of view, the thrill of playing for a major league team.

 

It all depends with how the money is used. If it was used to lower ticket prices, help subsidize new stadiums, or even used to help foster popularity of the sport back into the inner-city, it's not a bad thing. I fail to see how putting ads on uniforms makes the game any worse than all the ads that are at the games now. Hell, you walk into and watch the game from one big ad (Minute Maid Park). Anything and everything at the ball game is an advertisment. Ads on jerseys won't change a thing.

I'll draw my line when you stop the game so a player can give an endorsement or something like that. An ad on the jersey is no different than an ad on the wall behind the catcher. Or a section of seats sponsored by a restaurant conglomerate. Or the tracking of the home teams strikeouts by a local grocery store. Or the tracking of the home runs hit by the home team by an oil company. Or the Brake Check kiss-cam.

Seriously, none of those things made last season any less sweet. If you're not already turned off by advertising in the game, I don't understand how an ad on a jersey could do the trick.

 

I am absolutely, 100% dead set against it. No more commercialization of America's past time. I will be really pissed if that ever happens. I would have to start a petition against it.

 

i wouldn't stop watching...but i would prefer they didn't put ads on uniforms.

 

I wonder what kind of slippery slope this would open up? What if player's jerseys became littered with ads like on a Nascar car? What if an NFL team was offered such a large sum of money that it put a full helmet ad over their current logos? It may sound unlikely, but I bet that 30 years ago people would never have imagined the type of advertising that we already have.