Exactly....finally....MLB has not and doesn't look like they will ever lift a finger to promote the players of the game....Josh Hamilton got some headlines when he broke out and his story went wild but MLB did not capitalize in on his media attention.....I firmly believe if MLB would market their players then popularity from casual fans and women would go way up and once thst happens I think we start to see better ratings across the board. I seen Barry Bonds on the cover of a magazine once and as I was looking at it my wife asked who that was....I told her BB and she knew the name but didn't know the face......ask her who her favorite player is and she will tell you Derek Jeter, ask her why and she will tell you he has pretty eyes.....she has no idea he plays SS.....I say lets cash in on that stuff.......
MLB is missing the boat here IMO.....there are some great stories out there for MLB to promote right now but come next April we all will forget who the Athletics were and we will forget all about the season that Mike Trout and Miggy just put up....MLB should be blasting their face every chance they get to remind us of what great stories we have in this sport. Have we ever had a rookie like Trout? How long has it been since we seen a season like Miggy's? Yet we won't hear a thing about it once the MVP and ROY picks are over with......and that's a sad sad travesty....those stories should be ones thst we hear about all winter, not how Lance Armstrong went downhill or how the Super Bowl MVP will be in every commercial on tv or how the NFL will pimp their draft.....we should be hearing about the record breaking seasons of 2 superstars of our game...
I would venture to say that Trout and Miggy won't even make a commercial this offseason unless the tigers win the series and then we "might" see MC in something.