Stop Having Fun Over There. We’re Serious…Your Smiles Will Be Noted
Thursday, May 12, 2011 at 2:00PM | Email Article 
We’ve been trying to ignore this because it’s stupid, but fine, we’ll take the bait.
AEG, at least as far as we can tell it’s AEG*, is running a shadow website trying to publicize their new B2B prohibitions. (We’d link to it if it was remotely worth your time.) The headline is: “Bay to Breakers—A Serious Race.”
Seriously? If ever you doubted how truly out of touch AEG is with the event it manages, let this be your proof.
From its inception after the 1906 earthquake, Bay to Breakers set out to lift the spirits of the City. It is designed to celebrate San Francisco, to be fun and creative and diverse. That diversity includes many elite runners who take it seriously but also thousands of others who just want to enjoy the City on a Sunday morning.
Serious is for Mondays, or tax forms, or the end of “Full House” episodes when Bob Saget gives a life lesson.
The world is serious enough. Bay to Breakers is fun. It’s San Franciscan.
AEG, you don’t understand this event and you don’t deserve it. It’s time for you to go. On that point, we are serious.
*It has been suggested in the media that some phantom, unnamed government department made this site. We find that funny.
a. A crude link to sfgov.org does not make a site government operated. (Nor does the .com domain, but hey who’s counting?)
b. As taxpayers, we refuse to believe our government would create a website so crappy.
c. Check out SFCitizen’s take on the site here.
Ok, ok, if curiosity gets the best of you, here’s the site. It’s like Lemon Party only not funny.