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Mormon Red Death · 05-09-2008, 04:43 PM

Unhappily Ever After Dept.

This week's coveted Greed is Bad award goes out to the rats in the hats at Dr. Seuss Enterprises.

Their crime? Forcing the well-meaning Lake Elsinore Storm, of the California League, to pull the plug on last week's brilliant Dr. Seuss Night promotion.

Why'd that happen? No, not because the Storm couldn't locate enough green eggs. Because the team couldn't locate enough green cash to convince the grinches at Dr. Seuss Enterprises to drop their threatened legal action.

Only one positive development came out of that cancellation -- one of the great press releases in modern baseball history, as penned by Matt Dompe, the Storm's director of game operations, and assistant GM Alan Benevides. Here goes:

The Padres affiliate, the Lake Elsinore Storm
Tried to put on a promotion that wasn't the Norm
We called it Dr. Seuss Night on our website
But something about that didn't seem right

Dr. Seuss Enterprises didn't see it as funny
They said we could do it but we didn't have the money
They didn't appreciate our publicity ploys
So we have to inform all the sad girls and boys

Through the face of it all we thought we'd persist
Until we were served with a cease and desist
The theme has been cancelled but the game will go on
Perhaps it wouldn't matter if we were in Taiwan

MikeWaters · 05-09-2008, 04:45 PM

Where's the attribution, Br. Bateman?

Mormon Red Death · 05-09-2008, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Where's the attribution, Br. Bateman?

Jayson Stark... ESPN.com

Mormon Red Death · 05-09-2008, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Where's the attribution, Br. Bateman?

btw... thanks for being the citation police...

05-09-2008, 04:43 PM	#1
Mormon Red Death Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Clinton Township, MI Posts: 3,126	Dr. Suess Enterprises ... and a witty retort from a minor league baseball team Unhappily Ever After Dept. This week's coveted Greed is Bad award goes out to the rats in the hats at Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Their crime? Forcing the well-meaning Lake Elsinore Storm, of the California League, to pull the plug on last week's brilliant Dr. Seuss Night promotion. Why'd that happen? No, not because the Storm couldn't locate enough green eggs. Because the team couldn't locate enough green cash to convince the grinches at Dr. Seuss Enterprises to drop their threatened legal action. Only one positive development came out of that cancellation -- one of the great press releases in modern baseball history, as penned by Matt Dompe, the Storm's director of game operations, and assistant GM Alan Benevides. Here goes: The Padres affiliate, the Lake Elsinore Storm Tried to put on a promotion that wasn't the Norm We called it Dr. Seuss Night on our website But something about that didn't seem right Dr. Seuss Enterprises didn't see it as funny They said we could do it but we didn't have the money They didn't appreciate our publicity ploys So we have to inform all the sad girls and boys Through the face of it all we thought we'd persist Until we were served with a cease and desist The theme has been cancelled but the game will go on Perhaps it wouldn't matter if we were in Taiwan __________________ Its all about the suit

05-09-2008, 04:45 PM	#2
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Where's the attribution, Br. Bateman?