OMG.... it's water
 

This article from NJ.com is crazy. What a terrible example MLB is setting. :(

I'm suspecting the reporter doesn't have their facts straight. When I worked the Eagles' sidelines, everything was served in Gatorade *cups* but in those cups was mostly just plain old water. That's probably what they're enforcing, what the water is held in, not what they actually drink.

that sounds most likely UT. Most athletes I know won't touch gatorade anymore.

I, of course, immediately think, No bottled water, eh? Well how about I freeze it and then peel the bottle off? Whatcha gonna do? But perhaps drinking it from a Gatorade cup is the more peaceful solution.

The sign doesn't say no water, it says no bottled water. The issue isn't what they drink, but what they project to the viewers (especially kids) that they are drinking.

*Everything* is about the money. *Everything, everywhere, without exception*.

Its so goddamn depressing.

Idiocracy, anyone? In the future, the crops were dying because they water them with "Brawndo (the thirst mutilator)" . . . because it has electrolytes . . . which is what plants crave . . . (because the Brawndo corpoation had purchased the FDA) . . .

I've always said that Idiocracy represents the state of things NOW, not 500 years in the future.

Water. How long has that been around? The early cave baseball teams drank water.

We've bastardized our best element!

Yeah, but think of what fish did in that water. :unsure:

marketing at its finest

I'm confused about why this is a big deal. The league has an advertising deal with a company. The company would certainly have included a clause in the contract to prevent any visual evidence of players using a competing product. Seems to make sense to me.

How much did Aquafina pay to be the "offical water" of MBL, only to be excluded from any broadcasts?

Obviously not enough. I don't know what their contract says, but most likely they paid enough to use the MLB symbol on their bottles that they sell to the public. If they wanted exclusive visual image rights they'd have had to pony up a bazillion more pesos most likely.

I'm not saying it's right, but I'm sure that the marketing guys for each company knew exactly what they were getting.

20 years ago Walter Payton was fined for wearing a Puma (IIRC) headband under his helmet because the NFL had a different sponsor than Payton did. Different contracts, different prices, different rights.

Which goes to prove that MLB is a for profit corporation and should be treated as such.
National game? Only the taxpayers are being played.

Just another reminder of the movie "Idiocracy". "Gatorade, it has what plants crave."

Watch it. Watch the movie. When you see it, rent it!! Hilarious!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/