July 15, 2003 [LINK]

It really DID count!

July 15 ~ All-Star break "This time it counts!" Let's hope so. The pre-game promo featuring Sean Connery and the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was an obvious attempt to lure more Gen-X viewers and repair the damage caused by last year's fiasco in Milwaukee, but the commercial tie-in was an ugly reminder of contemporary baseball's appalling money-grubbing ways.

NOTE: This is a "post facto" blog post, taken from the pre-November 2004 archives.