Update:
Sprint has just announced that they will be building a new 250 million dollar entertainment complex in Kansas City, Mo.

Hold the phone, didn’t Sprint just lay off 5,000 employees in September? Now 7 months later there spending millions on a shitty sports complex that’s going to be home of the biggest tractor pulls ever? Instead of flipping over a few million dollars to gain some big corporate sponsorship, how about you send a few checks to some hungry family’s who without a doubt, had a unhappy Christmas. Asshats.

I would cancel my sprint phone if I had one. Can you hear me now? Good.

While reading Brian’s Post about MLB entertaining the thought of placing advertisements on the bases I can’t help to get enraged. Is there a piece of this planet that isn’t somehow whored out by corporate America?

Like everything else it all starts so innocently with the logo of the jersey manufacturer being enlarged so it can be spotted on TV. Add a banner here, a little grass paint there before you know it a boxer is getting a fucking Tampax tattoo on his back. Because you know, tampons are good for stopping nosebleeds.

Now when I want to go see the Providence Bruins play I got to buy a ticket at the “Dunkin Donut Center”. Every where you look in that place is iced latte this and strawberry frosted that, whatever happened to beer and fucking hotdogs?

I was at a party once and some punk was prancing around with some plastic wrap on his arm, his shirt rolled up so I can see his non-existent bicep and his newly acquired Nike tattoo. He was taking off the plastic wrap and flaunting it like it was something to be proud of. I couldn’t help to express to him how much of a dip shit he was that he put a corporate logo on his arm. He wasn’t getting paid for it, he thought it was “pimp” … asshat.

MLB has announced that there has been an overwhelming negative response by fans, and therefore will not continued as planned with the painting of their field or bases. But I don’t think they will be able to refuse the “free money” from corporate sponsors for too much longer, not with player salaries tripling ever 10 years or so.

It’s hard to find things that aren’t tainted by the plague, and it wont be long before Old Faithful is renamed to the Pepsi Enema, or the Presidents teeth of Mount Rushmore are painted pearly white and brought to you by Colgate.

I feel so dirty.