Cracker Jacks strike out! -- Steinbrenner actually does the right thing?

[HuckleB]

Holy crap! Who woulda thunk it?

Friggin' Frito Lay...

Cracker Jacks deserved to be struck out

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0504/skenazy.html

"Hey, Cracker Jacks - goodbye and good riddance! Get outta town! Don't come back until you show a kernel of self-respect!

Yes, the time-honored treat has been tossed out of Yankee Stadium, the only big-time ballpark with the guts to do what's right. This is great news even though in Jacks' place comes the candy corn also-ran, Crunch 'n Munch.

"Travesty!" "Ignominy!" "Other big word meaning I'm irrationally peeved about something trivial!"

Oh, quit yer yapping! So what if it seems like next thing you know George Steinbrenner's gonna replace Coke with ShopRite Cola? Fact is, it's Cracker Jacks that has got molasses on its hands. The caramel-coated classic let us down. Buy me some peanuts and Crunch 'n Munch, I don't care 'cause Jacks screwed up a bunch."

Cracker Jacks deserved to be struck out

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0504/skenazy.html

[HuckleB]

1. What? Not even RSox fans will defend the Frito-Lay CJ bag?

Wow!

[HuckleB]

2. Is there a bonus for killing your own thread from the word go?

:)

[Deja Q]

3. WTF

Frito-Lay bought the company in 1997 and by 2002 was thinking the unthinkable:

Jacks in a bag.

Imagine Fritos in a box! Jim Beam in a can! Budweiser served in individual ketchup packets! That's how stupid Cracker Jacks look in a bag. Limp and pathetic. If ever a candy product needed Levitra, this is it.

I am fucking tired of big corporations buying smaller ones.

Syntrillium was bought by Adobe, who then re-labelled Syntrillium's audio product and sold it for twice the goddamn price.

But I digress. Baseball sold out a long time ago. And unlike most Americans, I'm still in a fritter over the 1994 strike. It's all about marketing. And I'll avoid the pop-"culture" products.

[HuckleB]

4. Hey, I killed this thread.

Besides, baseball is hardly the worst sport when it comes to marketing. The NFL's lowbrow and "mystique" routines play on the worst of the worst.

[NoPasaran]

5. On balance, Steinbrenner still sucks n/t

[HuckleB]

6. Yes, but what about Frito-Lay?

Save the Jacks!