Growing MLB trend

Do you remember the in the movie “Major League 2″ when the players show up to the field one day and the outfield wall is covered in ads for plumbers, electricians, and local eating establishments?  The players felt as if they had been sent back down to the minors.  Unfortunatley for them it doesn’t seem like MLB is to far from that.  I guess it started with Sportscenter anchors saying, “He goes shopping at the gap” when a player would hit the ball to the right or left center field gap.  That spurred The Gap (clothing store) to place their ads up on the walls in what baseball fans called the gap.  Now the trend has taken over baseball with countless amounts of businesses being represented.  Its not just the walls that are being taken away from.  Scoreboards, pitch counts, big screens, and the only real reason it seemed that the Atlanta Braves put up the screen that circles around the stadium is so that they could benefit from more advertising dollars.  Hopefully soon we’ll see an end to the madness, but so far the dollars are beating out the purity of the game at the major league level.