Oh. My. Fuckin'. God.

[reyd reid reed]

Dead can now show team spirit

The Associated Press

Philadelphia - Many crazed baseball fans have said they would die for a championship. But are they willing to take that devotion to the grave?

Major League Baseball and a company that makes funeral products will soon find out how many fans want to be decked out for eternity in tribute to their team.

Starting next season, fans of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers will be able to have their ashes put in an urn or their bodies buried in a casket emblazoned with their team colors and insignia.

Major League Baseball has entered a licensing agreement with Eternal Image, which hopes to make urns and caskets for all 30 teams.



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Holy shit. Is it just me or does this just....

words fail me.

[qnr]

1. Yeah, I heard about that while listening to Olbermann. Strange stuff n/t

[reyd reid reed]

3. I mean...I like baseball and all that...

but....I mean....just....

Damn.

And the League licensed it? What...they gonna put one of those shiny little silver mlb stickers on the base of the urn?

[qnr]

6. Well, I won't see it, so I'll forget about it soon. However, if it's some

sort of signal from MLB & they start getting up to celebrate championships, demanding soul kisses from passersby, I'm gonna get really pissed.

[qnr]

39. Wow, you guys must like undead zombie sport fan soul kisses! n/t

[reyd reid reed]

40. Ewwwwwwwwwwww

:eyes: *shudder* :scared:



Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

[qnr]

43. Thank goodness. I was getting worried there for a while :) n/t

[reyd reid reed]

45. Personally, I much prefer the live and kicking variety...

[Kutjara]

2. Archeologists of the future...

...will be scratching their heads over these remains for years.

[jobycom]

5. They'll probably claim it had a religious significance

Archeologists claim everything had a religious significance.

[reyd reid reed]

7. LOLOL!!!

And they'll note the similarities and assume they were all members of fairly widely scattered tribes who armed themselves with clubs to fight other tribes and hunted with these oversized hand-extentions...

[jobycom]

4. OMG! I just find that hilarious, and in a very odd way

really, really positive! :rofl: Hard to explain, I guess I'm just impressed by people who can look death in the face and say "Yeah, but wait 'til next year!"

[reyd reid reed]

9. LOLOLOL!!!

Now that'd be a Cubbie. Gotta be. They'll be in the grave for three months, but come closing day they'll be heard muttering, 'wait 'til next year'

[jobycom]

11. I was thinking Saints.

Though maybe THIS year. Maybe... maybe...?

[reyd reid reed]

24. At least they won't end up in the cellar.

They'd have to stop showing up at the stadium for that to happen, I think.

[Robb]

8. The eulogy cannot be recorded

...without the express written permission of Major League Baseball. :rofl:

[reyd reid reed]

10. *snicker*

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[ruiner4u]

12. saaaa-WEET!!!

My funeral plans are now complete.. paid Sicilian mourners and a big COCKS sign over my coffin for the SC gamecocks...

[reyd reid reed]

18. I s'pose it won't be long before NFL, NHL, NBA and NCAA

will jump on the hearse, too.

[ruiner4u]

21. And the lucky winner

will get his ashes in the stanly cup

[reyd reid reed]

25. LMAOOOOOO!

Either that, or they'll dig up Lord Stanley hisself...

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. This has to be Tommy Lasorda's idea

:eyes:



Note AP's need for copy desks:

The National Funeral Directors Association is meeting in Philadelphia this week and giving its members a sneak peak of what the urns will look like.

[reyd reid reed]

19. Heh...you can't be surprised...

I was reading something once (that got through...at least to the web) that was talking about the break pads failing.

:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. I know, I know

But that stuff shouldn't get through. This is The Associated Press, fer Pulitzer's sake. Why don't they have copy editors? :shrug:

[reyd reid reed]

30. You're right. It shouldn't.

But they're cheap and the way they look at it, they send it over the wire and it gets picked up by someone else who's going to edit it to fit their hole anyway, so why pay for it at the front end?

Still...I'd think there'd be some pride involved, wouldn't you? Some standard of excellence? At least some standard of...acceptable?

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. One of the standard thread titles at Testy Copy Editors:

"Many newspapers use AP unedited."

Followed by an example of why they shouldn't.

But they do.

[ChoralScholar]

14. For some people, this will be the only way

they will be wearing red and blue when the Cubs win the World Series.

[reyd reid reed]

20. Meanie

Hmmph. Just kick a gal when she's down, why don'tcha?

:cry:

[ChoralScholar]

32. :)

Hey hon, I'm an Oakland fan. We're beat down too.

[reyd reid reed]

36. Mebbe...

but your team played in October.

Mine...

*sigh*

Pass the tissues....

[Richard Steele]

15. The dead need to get a damn life already.

[reyd reid reed]

23. It's starting to look that way...

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[some guy]

16. The dead are

going to look damn silly when three years after they die, the owner up and moves the team to a different city, and changes the name.

Corporate America: There is nothing to crass or too perverse for use to make a buck from.

[qnr]

22. Hi, welcome to DU. I see your point, and I'm not a sports fan, but I

think it's more about how they felt in the past (totally disregarding the fact that they're dead, of course). Hard to explain what I mean, because on the surface it seems like a "duuhhh, now there's a no-brainer" kind of comment.

I do agree with you about Corporate America though.

[some guy]

35. thanks for the welcome again

( you welcomed me in your weighted running vest thread last night )

I'm not a sports fan either, which is why I see this idea as silly beyond words...

:hi:

[qnr]

37. oh yeah, true! Well, it's common knowledge around here that I'm

borderline senile :)

[reyd reid reed]

42. You are?

I thought that was me...only I stepped across that border MONTHS...or was it years? I forget...ago.

[reyd reid reed]

26. Ooooooh....

EXCELLENT point.

:toast:

[some guy]

38. well

you could probably get by with a Cubbies urn/casket, since they've been in the same place a long time...

:rofl:

:hi:

[Catshrink]

17. "A Dying Cubs' Fan's Last Request"

Have you heard that song? It fits. I think I'd prefer the Bears.

[reyd reid reed]

27. I've prolly heard it...

Seems like I hear most of 'em at some point. People seem to like pointing them out...can't for the life of me figure out why...

My Cubbies bracelet that my kid brought me from the CWS?

My Cubbies jersey?

My Cubbies tee-shirts?

My constant and never-ending...oh, wait. I do stop every once in a while. Breathing is helpful.

[Zavulon]

29. Actually, I think I might be buried in Expos gear after reading this.

You can't imagine how much that team moving hurt me. It fucking SUCKED. Now I live close enough to see Nats' games live and can't bring myself to do it.

I understand the shock regarding the idea, though.

[reyd reid reed]

31. Keep 'em alive forever?

Expo gear's prolly going cheap these days, too. What're they gonna do with the park?

[Zavulon]

34. Still a matter of debate, but

I've already got the gear. Right now the park isn't slated for anything but concerts and movie shots as far as I know, but I haven't been in the city in almost a year.

[Broken_Hero]

41. Sweet...

to bad my superman alliegence outweighs my mariner alliegence...I will go for the Kryptonian Urn, thanks...:)

[idgiehkt]

44. Doesn't Harley Davidson have caskets too?

If not, I bet they will soon...

[reyd reid reed]

46. Somehow that seems a little more dignified to me...

Okay...a LOT more dignified.

[idgiehkt]

47. really?

Pretty soon you can be buried in Jay-Z coffin, if you want, I bet. Or maybe Michael Jordan. Gotta love America.

[reyd reid reed]

49. Don't ask me what the distinction is...

But Harley-Davidson has more...panache...to it. I can actually envision an elegant and dignified HD funeral. Jay-Z? Nuh uh. MJ? Nope. Logo-laden coffins lined in pinstriped satin?

No.

[idgiehkt]

51. to each their own.

I'm a Harley-hater so it's all the same to me.

[av8rdave]

48. I have a better idea....

Why not get corporate sponsors, which would help defray the cost of the funeral? Who cares if the casket looks like a NASCAR racer...it's going in the ground anyway.

Doesn't matter to me of course...when I die, my body is going to the taxidermist.

[reyd reid reed]

50. Heh...there ya go.

Although I've seen what those taxidermists do to the...hides...they use.

:scary:

[av8rdave]

54. That part is a bit disturbing.....

But how cool would it be to be standing in your living room by the fireplace for all eternity?

Come to think of it, maybe it's not such a hot idea...

[idgiehkt]

52. oh. my. God.

shhhhh.

that will be next. Coffins with a big '03' plastered right on top of them. Nascar will surely take up this idea and run with it. Then they will be selling coffins that look like the cars themselve, with four fake wheels.

Gawd.

[Initech]

53. What the fuck?

I am a major baseball fan, but there's no way I would want to be buried in a casket decorated with the team logo.

[reyd reid reed]

55. My feelings exactly

[u4ic]

56. Watch their team

go down with them...:P