Major League Baseball's public relations machine has come up with a doozy of an advertising campaign, evidently unveiled today sometime. In the television spot, Tommy Lasorda, Mr. Dodger himself, is seen trying to recruit fans of eliminated teams who are hiding in kitchen cabinets to come out and watch the playoffs (which, ironically, his team will likely be playing in). Sure enough, on MLB.com's main page, a sidebar is shown with the slogan "Watch the games - it's what your team will be doing!". I don't know about anyone else, but if I were a die-hard fan of an eliminated team - and the Cards are damn close right now - I think seeing that would cause me to be more offended than motivated to go watch any playoff games. Especially if I got one of these.