PLEASE NOTE OUR SELF-RESTRAINT

With a topic like this one, the snarky lines practically write themselves, but we’ll resist. Major League Baseball has announced a deal with a company called Eternal Image to market a line of caskets and cremation urns carrying team logos. (Alright, just shush. Even all the way over here, we can you hear you screeching “WHAT?!”) Seems some lifelong fans have requested just such a designation on their final resting place, and Eternal Image, sensing a growing revenue stream, is happy to help. According to a release, “The effort begins next season with the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers, Phillies, Cubs and Dodgers,” with other teams expected to follow. But a rep for the National Funeral Directors Association notes that such a product will have to be marketed very carefully. "They [potential customers] are a little bit hesitant because of what others might think," he said. To which we say. “Who cares what others think? You’ll be DEAD!” (So much for self-restraint.)

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[Robin Z.]

The real beauty of this product is that the Sox-loving wife of the (late) Yankees-loving husband CAN have the last word...