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From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Dumb baseball commercials
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 12:37:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 12:37:44 1985
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In article <130@cadsys.UUCP> bbaker@cadsys.UUCP (William Baker) writes:
>
>	Has anyone heard those really stupid promotional
>commercials advertising "Baseball, America's sport"?  They've been
>running incessantly on one of the local AM stations.  I've heard
>two different versions so far, one a grandfather taking his
>grandson to a game ("I can remember when I took your father to his
>first game...") and another with a mother taking two of her kids to
>a game ("Son, when it comes to baseball, mother knows best").
>	These commercials are so ludicrous that they sound a lot
>like a put on, but they're not.  If you took the worst Madison
>Avenue copy writers and stuffed them full of 'ludes, they still
>could not write anything as trite and hackneyed as these
>commercials.  I'm curious, though.  Are they running them just in
>the Bay Area, or has anyone else had to suffer through them?
>
>					Bill Baker
>					intelca!cadsys!bbaker
I havent heard the radio ad's, but the TV ones are exactly the same. Boring,
stupid, insipid, and populated by totally unbelievable characters. And this
comming after last years ad's ( Baseball Fever ) which feature cheering
crowds, the crack of the ball hitting the bat, etc. and *NO TALKING*. They
certainly made me want to go see a game. Maybe if we start a letter writing
campain they will go back to the old ones.

Bob Weiler.