Your Powers Are Weak, Old Man

[Elster88]

Why is there a picture on the calendar box for September 16? Mousing over the picture reveals the text "The Force Unleashed".

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=nym

[DocTee]

That's some weird shit

[nymr83]

is that something to do with the star wars cartoon movie?

[Guest AG/DC]

Could it be something about my honeymoon?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The Whitecaps here had "Star Wars Night" where the team wore Darth Vader jerseys and people in costumes were running all over the place. After the game, you could sit out in the outfield grass and watch the movie on the scoreboard.

Don't think the Mets are doing that, but it was fun. Darth Vader threw out the first pitch.

[G-Fafif]

I was hoping this had something to do with Jamie Moyer.

[MFS62]

AG/DC wrote: Could it be something about my honeymoon?

Which one?
Elster's "force unleashed" or Doc's "weird shit"?

Later

[Guest AG/DC]

Actually, I meant the thread title.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Mystery solved. This on the Uniwatch Blog

Latest example of advertising where it doesn�t belong: Go to your favorite MLB team�s web site, look at the September schedule, and check out Sept. 16th. �A Star Wars-themed promotion at the stadium that day?� asks Sean Wilson. �Nope. That�s the day LucasArts releases �Star Wars: The Force Unleashed,� their new videogame. They seem to have struck a deal with MLB to promote this with this stupid picture of Darth Vader on the schedule of EVERY team. Not baseball-related at all but on the schedule anyway is. Maybe not a new low, but pretty bad nonetheless.� Au contraire, I�d say it IS a new low.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I really can't get worked up about this.

Advertising is everywhere and we can do little but accept it and adapt to it. A picture of a cartoon character on a web site calendar isn't a big deal to me.

[MFS62]

AG/DC wrote: Actually, I meant the thread title.

Touche.

LOL!

Later

[nymr83]

]Latest example of advertising where it doesn�t belong: Go to your favorite MLB team�s web site, look at the September schedule, and check out Sept. 16th. �A Star Wars-themed promotion at the stadium that day?� asks Sean Wilson. �Nope. That�s the day LucasArts releases �Star Wars: The Force Unleashed,� their new videogame. They seem to have struck a deal with MLB to promote this with this stupid picture of Darth Vader on the schedule of EVERY team. Not baseball-related at all but on the schedule anyway is. Maybe not a new low, but pretty bad nonetheless.�

remember the spider-man bases thing? THAT was a "new low" for advertising. this is nothing to me. the "ford recap" or "pepsi player of the game" is far more annoying than this (not that those annoy me either)

[metsmarathon]

i think it would be super cool if mr met dressed up as darth vader....

[Guest holychicken]

Still not lower than being subjected to 2 Jeter Ford Edge commercials per commercial break and then told I can go to his website to watch more.