Shades of Gray

I'm going to ask a question, and I want you to think about it a bit before answering. Which is more engaging: watching a World Series between the Tigers and the Cardinals where the Tigers are hitting .185 as a team and the Cardinals are hitting about .196 OR watching the rain delay and ultimately rained-out coverage of Game 4 last night? I'd have to think about that one. At least with the rain delay the announcers have to work harder to come up with interesting things to talk about.

Ah well, we'll try again tonight. Who will the rainout help more? It could be the Tigers. It could be the Cardinals. It is definately not the average baseball fan, who, as a result has to put up with this lousy series for another day before we can start having good arguments about who got screwed out of the MVP or Cy Young.

Meanwhile, I stopped watching Game 3 in the middle somewhere, so I didn't get to find out if anyone hit a home run into left field or left center field. I haven't heard about my free taco, so I'm guessing nobody did. That's an interesting promotion- a free taco for everyone in America for a homer in a certain area. That would have been fascinating to see. I would have liked to see a sociological study of the numbers of adult Americans who took advantage of standing in line for over an hour to get a free 79-cent hard taco versus the numbers of adult Americans who stood in line for maybe five minutes to exercise their right to vote on November 7.

But then again, Joe Leiberman doesn't have the status of being the "official quick service restaurant of Major League Baseball." Does that status actually help Taco Bell? MLB isn't like Jay-Z or the Pussy Cat Dolls. They don't have street cred. If Craig Biggio prefers his fast food "cruncheweezy" does that make thousands of schoolboys rush out to Taco Bell? There's got to be a better way of spending marketing money.