What a crazy world we live in these days- everyone's agreeing with the French, England and the U.S. are pissed that Germany doesn't want to fight a war (isn't this a good thing? Do we really want to encourage them?) and people are upset that Pacific Bell Park, a baseball stadium named after a phone company, is going to have to be changed to SBC Park. Think about it- everyone absolutely hates when stadiums or arenas are named after corporate sponsorship, yet people in SF are upset that they're gonna change the name of the stadium from one corporate name to another. And I'm one of them. Pacific Bell Park, aka Pac Bell, just rolled off the tongue. It worked. There was a rhyme to it. SBC Park- nothing.

And wouldn't it be funny if starting next year, people refuse to call it SBC Park and keep calling it Pac Bell? People here refused to call Candlestick 3Com after it got named 3Com and it's gonna be the same thing. Except people refused to do it because they didn't want to give into the corporate sponsorship thing and, well, you get my point.