Spidey and baseball

Somebody's spider sense wasn't working.

Spider sense was what helped Peter Parker, our friendly neighborhood Spiderman, know when he was about to be ambushed.

Strange thing about superheroes, though -- they never ambush themselves.

That's just what Major League Baseball did when it decided to put ads on bases at most stadiums to promote the upcoming film "SpiderMan 2."

The deal netted baseball $3.6 million from Marvel Studios and Columbia Pictures.

Superheroes and capitalism are as American as peanuts and Cracker Jacks.

But after an outcry from fans, baseball officials decided to take the web head off the bases. That was only a small part of the promotion anyway, they said.

It's good they've got their priorities straight.

We'd hate to think they were looking the other way while some stars padded their stats by artificially juicing up their superpowers.

-- Springfield News Leader