Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/13/84; site cadsys.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!intelca!cadsys!bbaker From: bbaker@cadsys.UUCP (William Baker) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Dumb baseball commercials Message-ID: <130@cadsys.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:06:31 EDT Article-I.D.: cadsys.130 Posted: Tue Aug 13 17:06:31 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:52:14 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Intel, Santa Clara, Ca. Lines: 17 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