game time: 7-Eleven

If you're going to a White Sox game in Chicago, chances are it will start at 7:11pm. Apparently the White Sox got a load of cash from the convienence store 7-Eleven to change the start time for all night games to 7:11pm. Read about this and other moves by "financially strapped" baseball fanchises in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/sports/11pressbox.html

I understand that baseball teams have a right to get whatever money they can get, but a lot of these corporate sponsership things seem to demean the game. Its much less tolerable when we have to watch teams give ridiculous contracts to average and mediocre players. The leaders in this category are the Yankees and the Red Sox.