Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bob From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Dumb baseball commercials Message-ID: <232@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 12:37:44 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.232 Posted: Sun Aug 18 12:37:44 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 20:29:01 EDT References: <130@cadsys.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Distribution: net Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 31 Summary: Organization : Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls NJ Keywords: 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.