Watching a baseball game on TV can provide astounding moments. Sensational fielding, clutch hitting, pinpoint pitching. But nothing was more astounding to me than a promotion they used to run on Blue Jays telecasts way back when.
Viewers were invited to text their votes for player-of-the-game and the people’s choice would win a watch. Voters were told that each text would cost fifty cents. Who in their right mind, I wondered, would pay even fifty cents so a millionaire ballplayer could win a watch?
This was theft, looting the treasury in the last days of a decaying civilization level theft. How anyone could consider this a good deal is beyond reason.
