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From: bbaker@cadsys.UUCP (William Baker)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Dumb baseball commercials
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:06:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 17:06:31 1985
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	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
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