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So far this season I haven't noticed any of Boston's "Baybay! Safe Haven!" raps...which is a tragedy.

Second the Bernie and Phyl's ads, particularly w/Wakefield striking out Bernie.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

there are some really awful ads in DC featuring washington wizards players. but how could i forget senate insurance?

http://www.senateinsurance.com/images/Kiss_animated.gif http://www.senateinsurance.com/images/Howard_G_new.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember Eagle. Was that the one where the door falls off, with the bad acting, or was that a different one?

I haven't seen those commercials much lately, but I don't watch that much WGN or the 'U'.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

that kiss my bumper image is AWESOME!

yeah, whatever that ad w/ steve blake is...uhh, terrible.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I think stencil's "Stand Up" commercial was an Orioles promo, where they just show portraits of the O playas holding bats / pounding gloves / doing stoic & manly baseball stuff while the cameraman works the zoom & swivle.

yeah that's it. somehow i don't see bj ryan getting down to luda, but hey.

that poker thing is a NESN promotion. "i don't even know where boston is."

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

YES is doing it, too. Fuckers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone else get the 1-800-CALL-SAM ("tell 'em you mean business") lawyer ads or is that just a Detroit/Tigers thing?

http://callsam.com/elements/images/header.free.consultation.gif

this guy's just a michigander, I'm not sure if the rest of the US is ready for his personal injury advocacy.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

The new bald Johnny Damon & Theo DD commercial is quality, much better than the one last year with Schilling learning how to PAHK the CAHR.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/Canada/2004/06/23/dawson250-cp.jpg
When I hit one over the fence at Wrigley Field, I hit it over a Tru-Link fence

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Another WGN favorite: Victory Auto Wreckers ("is that old car worth money?"), which was filmed in like 1981 and is STILL ON THE AIR.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

victory auto wreckers! you can put it on the boooooard, yes!

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/emanski_mcgriff.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

IF YOU NEED A CAR
AND IT DON'T LOOK GOOD
WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
MAROONE'S!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

omg just saw an ad for a b'more law firm starring bubba smith and ray lewis!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, so far, b'more has the best ads of anyone. great exterminator commercial, weird new wave dudes commercial, etc

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

the new wave "I'm so hot" one is for maryland lotto. AWESOME "I'm so hot" followed by EXTERMINATOR commercial! I hope i get more o's games.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

where are you, hstence?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

at the office.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

David Ortiz for Comcast: "You gotta try my new recipe for mango salsa! Ooh, mama!"

Ah, so that's why I pay $130 a month for your shitty cable. Good work.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 6 May 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, Victory Auto Wreckers is the one with the door faling off.

― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Saturday, 7 May 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link

not really hilarious, but pretty annoying, is the radio luke-oil commercial during phillies games. and i think they play it every single commercial break.

"americans love to take a drive for any reason"

― the leglo (the leglo), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, yes.

is that also the one about driving from the bullpen in the hat car?

bollocks!

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, one and the same.

terrible.

― the leglo (the leglo), Sunday, 15 May 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

DICK ENRICO

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 15 May 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish John Smolts would take ME to Home Depot.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.peoplethatclick.com/pictures/Home-Depot.gif + http://www.onlinesports.com/images/phf-aagj059.jpg = :D

I want to go to Home Depot with him!

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 16 May 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

apparently the greater st. louis area has a hooters rip-off called show-mes. nice.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link

NO WAY!

I guess St. Louis really IS a great place to play baseball!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

they have 7 area locations! they sponsor the cardinals lineup on fsn st. looie!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The incredibly wooden Castiglione/Trupiano spot for "Mike's Hard Berry" that WEEI has been running lately is tremendous.

"I just saw it on my last trip to the grocery store. Even the packaging looks refreshing!"

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 30 May 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

who ya gonna call?

MARONNE!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i like that you have the fortune of seeing broadcasts from around the country.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

You can, too, jay, w/ EXTRA INNINGS!

Using "wooden" to describe Castiglione & Trup is excessively redundant.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Aki Otskua in a dopey commercial for Corky's Pest Control in San Diego:

http://planqv2.fuckyouanddie.com/images/aki4.gif

― tylero (tylero), Saturday, 4 June 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 4 June 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

He's trying to kill the ants that are invading his picnic. With a bat.

― tylero (tylero), Sunday, 5 June 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

because he's a baseball player, geddit?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 June 2005 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i like how the victory auto wreckers ad is "new and improved". same footage of scuzzy guy in tight jeans and members only jacket, but new voiceover and graphics.
i could probably recite the whole lincoln tech ad they used to run. "whether you're overemployed or underemployed, out of work or soon will be, or just looking to turn your career around..."

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

This doesn't really fit the criteria of the thread, but I was in the Beaumont, TX area last weekend and saw a local car dealership ad featuring Lamar University product Kevin Millar!

― boldbury (boldbury), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/search/?q=mets

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

i always love the ones for Bobs Discount Furniture. Part of my wants to fuck the shit out of that woman who is on there laying on the beds and shit.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, there was just one on FSN during the Twins-Yankees game and while I only overheard it the gist was Ron Gardenhire was bitching about how stupid an ump was... for not wearing his seatbelt. Torii (I think) added the tagline "If you don't buckle up, you could be out -- and even ejected." Considering how easy it's come for Gardy to bitch at stupid umpiring, I'm surprised he was so wooden.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

two words : Foxwoods Leprechauns (on NESN in Boston)

― Jenna Snow (jsnow584), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

hi there

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 31 July 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Big fan of the 'Fanaticos De los Yanquis' commercials advertising the SAP simulcast feature. The camera is set up low and the players aren't trained in prompter reading so you can see their eyes move back and forth along the lines. Plus the player's aren't lit even HALF well, so there's a whole public-access-city-council-vote-for-me feeling about it. Plus the subtitles are in English and not spanish... so... what happens if you have a deaf spaniard who wants to read the pbp of the game, hmmm...?

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Do they have the anti-smoking commercials with the tracheotomy dude and the brain cancers dude in markets besides NYC? Because they revolt and upset me

― Jimmy Mod: NOIZE BOARD GRIL COMPARISON ANALYST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 17 June 2006 02:39 (seventeen years ago) link

silence = death

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 June 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

the chances of me getting any work done tonight are...REMOTE

― W i l l (common_person), Sunday, 18 June 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

tracheotomy dude started out in the Boston market 3 years ago and is apparently so effective that when NYC licensed it they saw 20,000+ extra calls to the anti-smoking line in two weeks ALONE.

but thats not really a baseball thing.

thing thats bugging me and gives extra ammo to the Empire haters are these godawful infoads for Fox News on YES that chew up about a minute. I figured it was unsold ad space until I realized it was a Red Sox game, and thus likely the offspring of some unholy alliance between Steinbrenner and Murdoch.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Sunday, 18 June 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"hi, i'm peter francis geraci..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 19 June 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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BYE BYE MISS AMERICAN PIE DROVE MY CHEVY TO THE LEVY BUT THE LEVY WAS DRY!

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 16 June 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Holy shit Sullivan Tire (BOS)

― Andy K, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link

Are those the ones featuring the wittle girl & Tito Francona, Thespian?

― David R., Monday, 23 July 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Is the Draught Keg commercial this year's Chevy/Mellencamp aural rapefest?

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 22 September 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq6HBUajwlE

the platinum ownership experience is the difference
the lexus platinum dealer network is the only way to achieve it

where have u gone, lexus platinum lady?

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link

Well, I've got to believe that this (or some variation thereof--he's got lots of them) has shown up at least once on a Jays broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQVVHyvOZU

― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link

please don't show the americans russel oliver.

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link

You're in Toronto, right? After the mayoral election, you may be nostalgic for the days when Russell Oliver was our ambassador to the world.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link

holy shit i don't even want to think about it.

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link

I don't know if this is the place for this gripe, but I hate how every time a Philly batter gets on base (no idea if other local broadcasts also do this), the announcers say, "Chase Utley is safe and secure at second base. Safe and secure. Metlife."

― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link

Mets have the same spot

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link

so do sox--it's fucking obnoxious

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link

The window-installer ad with the old ladies on SNY is pretty priceless tho

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link

otoh the 2-minute-long, 2-year-old NY Times ad with all the "hipsters" makes me wamma jump out the window

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Architect glasses guy: New York Times editorialists are the best in the world, and there's no debating that.

WAY TO SHUT DOWN DISSENT ASSHOLE

― sanskrit, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link

have any of you guys seen the commercial featuring the skeezy foreign-seeming dude who tries to sell you totally bogus sports paraphernalia? and at one point he says, "want minnesota?" and he snaps his fingers and two twins appear, one wearing a "mini" shirt and the other wearing a "soda" shirt, and he says, "twins!"

― Mordy, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link

six months pass...

not just local, but these Donald Sutherland Delta spots are starting to irritate me

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7DD6R6JrZk

missed u boo

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 April 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvDqHyqsuo

― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 February 2016 17:25 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

If you were a car dealer in the NY market creating a radio spot for Mets games, why would your script include the phrase "home base"? Maybe let someone who likes baseball read it first?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

reds radio broadcast: 'if you reach base 96% of the time, you're in the hall of fame. if you have a 96% customer satisfaction rating, you're guaranteed rate'

wut

― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link

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