As a general rule in life, I try to do what I can to avoid being a crank. I’ve seen too many tweets from Keith Olbermann screeching from his digital rooftop about how Hezekiah “Pints” McGuinness would take Shohei Ohtani to the cleaners to let that happen to me or my brain. Sometimes though, a hospital pays eight figures per year to put a gaudy four-inch-by-four-inch advertisement on the sleeve of your favorite team’s jersey and the primal parts of your brain begin to take hold.
In case you missed the off-white square on Twitter, SNY, or the photo above, the Mets became the latest team to put an advertisement on their jersey under a new program added in the most recent CBA.