LIST YOUR HILARIOUS LOCAL COMMERCIALS DURING BASEBALL BROADCASTS HERE:

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

how about senate insurance? kiss my bumper! just kiss it!

Also, YES Empire is nationwide! That guy's voice unnerves me - he sounds synthetic.

Big Red Smokies and Kahn's Hotdogs are a big thing Marty Brennaman is always selling on Reds radio broadcasts. The Smokies are a hotdog sized smoke sausage they sell at Riverfront (err..Great American) and Kahns sells them in stores around Ohio and Indiana.

Manhattan, Manhattan, can't you see?
Sometimes your clothes just hypnotize me

Manny Ramirez makes a really brief cameo. Most of the scantily clad ladies are kind of unattractive. The "yacht" they use for one of the shots looks to be equivalent in size to a somewhat large motorboat. The commercial very clearly cost about fifty bucks to make. It isn't baseball-specific, and it's been on the air for a few months, but I'll miss it.

The Dunkin' Donuts "BA NA NA" ad is shaping up to be this year's most annoying Red Sox radio spot, in the grand tradition of last year's know-it-all-kid ad (was that Fleet?) and the perennial Giant Glass "NUMBER NINE!"

Any Castiglione/Trupiano spot on WEEI kind of shatters the high mark for comedy, though.

There was some commercial for the aforementioned furniture store featuring Robert Parish that was painful. (I watch way too much NESN.)

Also, fuck those PartyPoker.net Boston / New York Challenge promos.

That in itself is funny enough - but the fact it was a Bad Boy commercial, who's ads are weird enough as it is, made it K-lassic!

of course then there's the shitty business w/ the maruee stars (cal ripken-adventure world; lavar arrington, freh smoo'-eastern automotive).

oh, dear.

there's also an ad for a worker's comp insurance company currently running on the o's tv network w/ billy "nuclear dish" ripken talking about the amount of times he was hit on the noggin. indeed!

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

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

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

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."

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

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

"americans love to take a drive for any reason"

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

bollocks!

terrible.

I want to go to Home Depot with him!

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

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

MARONNE!

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

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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.

[that one goes out to LEEE]

Jonathan Papelbon's commercials for some auto dealership in Plaistow, NH. U&K!

Very high production values, but they are surreal.

also, the classic Phil Rizzuto spots for The Money Store.

and yet, that one cracked me up long after it should have brought on the rage

The one w/ the traveling poker chip that ends up getting cozy w/ a woman's bosom is almost as punchable as the one w/ the Wizard of Oz folks finding John Pizzarelli behind the curtain.

we got the world's best coffee!

HONEYDEW

just for you!

we make it right, every day and night, at

HONEYDEW!

GAY MAN'S WIFE: "WE SHOULD HAVE DONE IT YEARS AGO!"

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

Holy shit Sullivan Tire (BOS)

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

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

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?

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

please don't show the americans russel oliver.

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.

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

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."

Mets have the same spot

so do sox--it's fucking obnoxious

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

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

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

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!"

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

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

missed u boo

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

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?

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