Doesn't "ad" up
By lefty
Did George Castanza leave the Yankees to work for Channel 2 out of NY?
Bob Raissman's Daily News column mentions a controversial ad broadcast during a Yankee/Red Sox game April 23 on Channel 2 . The ad proclaimed that the upcoming Kansas City series would wake up the Yankees slumbering lumber because of Kansas City’s “terrible” pitching. Sounds like a George move to me.
For some reason, the Yankees didn’t like that show of support. After the ad ran at least one more time, YES, which I think stands for Yankees Entertainment Sucks, and produces Channel 2’s Yankee telecasts, but not their ads, got a call from a “Yankee Boss.” Eventually, the Yankees found the right arm to twist and the ad was pulled.
What do you make of this? Was Channel 2 conceding the Yankees can’t hit good pitching? Raissman quotes a "Yankee Boss" as saying “We don’t condone or engage in that kind of advertising.” But were they really afraid it would piss off a few of the Royals players and entice them to swing a little harder? Too bad the Royals didn’t know about this before the series.
This story sounds too much like a "Seinfeld" episode.
