Diraker
07-23-2008, 10:37 AM
http://cincinnati.reds.mlb.com/cin/ticketing/faith_day.jsp
I mostly think this is just funny but there is a somewhat serious aspect to it. Sports teams are quasi-public. The government does sometimes help out finacially and the Reds sort of belong to all Cincinnatians not just the ultra religious.
Imagine if they, instead of Faith Day, have Allah Day, or Atheism Day, or Democrat Day, or Liberal Day, or Occult Day, or Homosexual Day, etc? People would protest, boycott, etc. Politicians would get involved. They'd hold some special hearings and waste 5 days of political panderings and voting to condemn the Reds. Congress would make statements and I bet even the president and the presidential candiates would jump all over to defend the poor persecuted Christians. New laws might be put to vote preventing ballparks from doing anything thay might offend the delicate sensibilities of deeply religious Christians.
Anyway I'm not out to ban Faith Day or have the government tell them they can't do it or whatever. I'm out to ridicule it.
eta: Forgot to mention that MLB might have some rules and stuff too that would limit what sort of promotions you can run. For example I doubt that the Reds would be allowed to rum promo's for a porn shop...that it would (in adddition to being stupid) be against MLB rules.
I mostly think this is just funny but there is a somewhat serious aspect to it. Sports teams are quasi-public. The government does sometimes help out finacially and the Reds sort of belong to all Cincinnatians not just the ultra religious.
Imagine if they, instead of Faith Day, have Allah Day, or Atheism Day, or Democrat Day, or Liberal Day, or Occult Day, or Homosexual Day, etc? People would protest, boycott, etc. Politicians would get involved. They'd hold some special hearings and waste 5 days of political panderings and voting to condemn the Reds. Congress would make statements and I bet even the president and the presidential candiates would jump all over to defend the poor persecuted Christians. New laws might be put to vote preventing ballparks from doing anything thay might offend the delicate sensibilities of deeply religious Christians.
Anyway I'm not out to ban Faith Day or have the government tell them they can't do it or whatever. I'm out to ridicule it.
eta: Forgot to mention that MLB might have some rules and stuff too that would limit what sort of promotions you can run. For example I doubt that the Reds would be allowed to rum promo's for a porn shop...that it would (in adddition to being stupid) be against MLB rules.