{"id":60075,"date":"2016-08-29T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60075"},"modified":"2016-08-27T09:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T14:03:06","slug":"at-least-metamucil-isnt-doing-sports-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60075","title":{"rendered":"At Least Metamucil Isn&#8217;t Doing Sports Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tor from &#8220;Torwegian&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/torwegian.blogspot.com\/2016\/08\/guaranteed-embarrassment-field.html\">notes with disapproval the ChiSox&#8217; new stadium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With some corporate marketing people, you just can fix stupid or financially desperate. \u00a0Count among them White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, <a href=\"http:\/\/wgntv.com\/2016\/08\/24\/white-sox-announce-name-change-to-ballpark\/\" target=\"_blank\">quoted<\/a> by WGN-TV:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to find, in Guaranteed Rate, a new naming rights partner founded in Chicago by Chicagoans, which shares our commitment to the city and to our fans. We view this partnership as an opportunity to connect a successful Chicago business with a historic baseball franchise, and we look forward to growing this important relationship over the coming years as millions of fans enjoy White Sox baseball at Guaranteed Rate Field.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dumb name? \u00a0Probably &#8211; but not as dumb as the taxpayer support that went into it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d happily go to &#8220;Pepto-Bismol Park&#8221;, if they and the teams&#8217; billionaire owners did the building.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way &#8211; if &#8220;Guaranteed Rate&#8221; could guarantee us a rate of 0% taxpayer subsidy, I&#8217;d swallow my pride and root for the ChiSox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor from &#8220;Torwegian&#8221; notes with disapproval the ChiSox&#8217; new stadium: With some corporate marketing people, you just can fix stupid or financially desperate. \u00a0Count among them White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, quoted by WGN-TV: &#8220;We are pleased to find, in Guaranteed Rate, a new naming rights partner founded in Chicago by Chicagoans, which shares our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60078,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60075\/revisions\/60078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}