Mariners Release 2010 Commercials
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 16, 2010 10:03 AM PDT
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I haven't watched them yet, but here's your link to the five spots, and here's your link to the blooper reel. I may elect to offer my reviews of the commercials below as updates to this post, or, if I can't think of anything to say, I may not, choosing instead to leave this sentence hanging here all awkward-like. Thanks to Divish for bringing these to my attention
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Update!
What's In A Name: I can't be objective about this one, because I love any opportunity to hear Felix talk in a way that sounds unscripted (even though this was 100%, completely scripted). It helps me feel closer to him. It's a strange plot - generally, you don't make fun of somebody by pointing out a thing he have in common with a lot of really famous and successful people. But they make it work, and Figgins was an excellent touch at the end. Would be funny to do the opposite commercial with Robinson Cano.
Running Catch: Good idea, but despite the funny ending (they're good at those), I think the execution could've been a lot better. This one doesn't make sense. Why would Guti be on a golf course? Why would he directly interfere with a game between the two people in control of his career? Why aren't Z and Wak more annoyed? Alternate idea: could've had Cliff Lee showing off his Cy Young award to some of his teammates. Somebody accidentally bumps into the shelf, knocking the award to the ground, but Guti comes out of nowhere to snag it before it hits the floor. Symbolism!
Meaningful Moments: Not going to win an Emmy (it's not Sarah Silverman or anything), but it's pretty good, and while I would've liked to see Junior play a better prank, most of the ideas that've come to mind would make him come off as some creepy guy who breaks into people's houses, so I can see why the M's stuck with what they did. Don't want to paint Griffey as a creeper in his final season. Bonus points for having Griffey's only ad appearance feature him sitting in a chair doing nothing while the other guys practice.
Immortalized: "Yeah" :fist pump: "So true" I love that reaction for the pure ridiculousness of it. Wasn't a big fan of the finisher - should've just had the coaches staring at the painting silently - but the painting itself is incredible, and I can't wait for my girlfriend to see this for the first time on TV, because she's going to scream. Brandon League was great in this one, and he didn't really do anything. Wonder how they would've done this if the group had a lefty.
The Next Big Thing: "You ready to battle?" Damn you Evan Longoria. This commercial is weird in that they featured RRS acting irritated and exasperated, which is the complete opposite of his usual demeanor. Hinting at the history between the two guys was a nice touch, but if anything, RRS should've been more receptive, because that shirt is awesome. They should sell those shirts. I am thankful yet curiously disappointed that the Colon jacket bore what it did. Why did that guy make a jacket for Bartolo Colon? He clearly works for the Mariners. Do we have a spy in our midst? The shirt is red, but Colon hasn't pitched for a red team since 2008. Wouldn't RRS have seen this shirt already? So many questions.
Outtakes: So Guti doesn't catch everything.
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Overall, these commercials were very well done, and they represent a significant step up from the ads we've gotten used to. That shopping network series seems like forever ago. Two of them featured really good, creative ideas, and that bullpen painting is going to live on as long as the Mariners exist. There's room for improvement, and I'm not about to forward this link to everyone I know, but then I have impossible standards for humor, and these were fun across the board. Be sure to watch the outtakes, if you haven't already - they're endearing, as outtakes usually are.
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Am I the only one...
…who thinks the painting in the bullpen/“Immortalized” commercial looks exactly like Jack Wilson?
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Yeah, him too...
Does the World Series trophy come with a plate of bacon?
by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
DAMN
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions 18 recs
Bahahahaha
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by Griffin Cooper on Mar 16, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
HAHAHAHA
Most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen on this site.
by universalguru on Mar 16, 2010 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
That's who I saw.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
Nevertheless...
Somehow, someway… Junior will get ahold of that painting and use it to his advantage…
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
JUNIOR!!!!!!!
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by Craig Powers on Mar 16, 2010 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
For someone acting in a second language, Ichiro does an amazing job. I don’t know how much coaching he had, but he gets a lot into that line. (Which is also, I think, the longest thing he’s said in any commercial to date). I like to think that’s exactly the tone he uses when he speaks to the umpire after getting called out on strikes.
And I’ve already sampled “Juuuumior!!!” to use as my system error sound. Or something — I’ve got the .wav/MP3, now I just have to find a use for it (probably not a good choice for a ring-tone, even if my phone wasn’t permanently on vibrate). Hmmm, I’ve also got the “Dude!” from that otherwise forgettable HSN commercial. Eventually I’ll have the entire set!
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
My thoughts,
Cliff Lee and Felix – Terrible
RRS – Not liking the hyphen seems out of character. The : colon shirt was nice though.
Griffey and Ichiro – This one is saved by Ichiro’s reactions.
Wak, Z and Guti – Gutierrez tossing the ball and the guy not even reacting made me laugh. Good all around, the best one of the set.
Bullpen – That picture has hilarious. If they actually keep that in the bullpen, that would raise this one to another level.
I strongly disagree with your first statement.
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by Griffin Cooper on Mar 16, 2010 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
All in all, much better than the last few years
Was pretty disappointed with the Guti commercial, and the Hyphen commercial could’ve been better. The rest were pretty good, with bullpen face being the funniest.
How were you disappointed in the Guti commercial?
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 16, 2010 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought it could've been funnier
Not that it’s bad or anything, I just had higher hopes for it.
Dammit Salty! :)
I think I’m the most disappointed by the Hyphen one.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 16, 2010 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
The Hyphen commercial would've been so much better if he whipped out a goatse shirt at the end
by OlSalty on Mar 16, 2010 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
He seems so bummed out. He had the same "They're so stupid" feel to his commercial last year.
by royalcurve on Mar 16, 2010 10:08 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Underneath the charming, gregarious Austrailian exterior beats a cynicism blackened heart of living obsidian.
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
It would have been funnier if Guttierez was compelled to catch everything that flew.
Birds, planes, launching sattelites. He can’t stop himself. The last cut would be him staring at the moon saying “Someday.”
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
by JAH on Mar 16, 2010 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions 9 recs
Jack, Wak, and Guti.
Pure awesomeness.
What the hell is with Brandon Leagues’ hair? Just something weird about it.
He's actually a normal, fairly good-looking guy
When he’s sort-of-shaved, smiling, and google-free (still got the hair, but that’s what gelled asian hair does, and I kind of like it).
But yeah, once he’s in ready-to-pitch mode, he’s full-on Mr Hyde. It’s like the inverse of one of those awkward-goose-to-swan teen movies where they take a good-looking actor/actress and mess them up with ugly glasses and frumpy clothes so that they can be transformed later into their Hollywood self.
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
You'll see plenty of those pearly whites this year
Seriously I don’t think this guy knows how to close his mouth when he’s on the mound. He must eat a lot of mosquitoes during the course of a season.
by shuswapslugger on Mar 16, 2010 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I think it's cut zig zag like "Wild Thing" Rick Vaughn in the back, but then there are longer hairs that cover that pattern.
I could be incorrect, but that’s what it looks like to me.
A lot of them seemed to be saved by the final joke.
The golfing one did nothing for me until the “I saw that,” which made me laugh.
The bullpen face and Griffey/Ichiro were my favorites.
I am still hoping to see the alternate take of the old Jays ad with Roy Halladay
It was one where the child Roy is surreptitiously throwing his brussels sprouts out the kitchen window. Instead of the actress playing his mother turning around and saying ‘Good work Roy, you ate all your vegetables’ there is a version with Vernon Wells in drag doing the same line…
It apparently ran on TV at least once
According to this report.
“Vernon Wells in Drag” would be an awesome name for a punk band from, say, Mississauga.
I would rather it was taken out and shot instead of given sublime pleasure
by lemonverbena on Mar 16, 2010 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Fun story time!
One of the people that played the moose back around 2004 was fired for giving out his number to random girls (some of them underaged!). He was like 35.
How do you get that job, anyway?
Is there like an underground fraternity of mascots, and you go pro after being one in college? Or is it the job for a mime with a family or drug habit to feed, while all the other mimes decry him (silently, with gestures) for selling out his artistic integrity? And how do the Brewer’s running sausages fit into the overall pecking order?
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
And he failed at killing Coco Crisp
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
by InSpokane on Mar 16, 2010 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Maybe that is a bit harsh
I blame the socio-economic inequities that begat the Moose
by lemonverbena on Mar 16, 2010 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Somewhere on USSM
There’s a thread where Derek describes the unsolicited and unwanted lapdance he got from the Moose at the Kingdome.
Unless in his shame he removed all trace of it. Which would be a shame, because it was hilarious. For the rest of us, anyway.
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Which is why the punctuation on the shirt
Is kind of a double-twist. Only thing that saves that one, actually.
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Yep...
Talk about a voice not fitting a dude’s appearance…
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
I was really expecting some sort of "League of their own" play on Brandon League.
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I have a Ropert is God™ complex.
I guess this is why they make a bunch of commercials
Everybody has different tastes. I would rank them from best to worst:
Griffey-Ichiro
Felix
Guti
Hyphen
Bullpen
The ones at the top mostly because the best players (and Jack) make everything better, or conversely it’s entertaining to see them doing anything other than what they do best.
The Hyphen one was underdeveloped (and possibly there’s not enough idea there to develop, which just means they should have gone with some other idea altogether), though the other punctuation as a kicker at least rescued it from the bottom. It’s a shame because RRS has so much personality — and that accent — to work with it’s hard to believe riffing on his name (especially at this point) is the best they could up with.
The bullpen one I didn’t like at all (except maybe for the coaches at the end). They gave Aardsma an awkward line and he didn’t deliver it well, the overall idea was strange, and that picture will indeed haunt my dreams, and not in a good way. I was hoping they’d do something with their Greek helmets from last year (perhaps a full suit of armor on somebody) or something. But this just didn’t do anything for me.
But obviously some people loved it, so there you go.
I believe he is just Hyphen.
no “The”.
Not unlike outside advertisers coming to the area with ads telling you to “take the I5”
I hate California
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
by InSpokane on Mar 16, 2010 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I live here and sometimes I really dislike it.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
But at the sametime there are very few things I like.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
Yup... I say "the 101" "the 202" "the 10" and so on...
Just about every freeway in Phoenix has a “the” prefix at the beginning for me.
by seattlesundevil on Mar 17, 2010 6:24 AM PDT up reply actions
Corco-baiting
Mariners/D Broncos/BSU Broncos fan in Seattle
by appleshampoo on Mar 16, 2010 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Does anybody remember Cal Worthington?
When he started selling cars up here with his idiot late-night commercials in the late 80s, his dealership was on Pacific Highway South somewhere near SeaTac. But doing his commercials in SoCal, he kept calling it “Pacific Coast Highway South” which I think put it in Baja
I remember Cal Worthington and his dog Spot from further back than the late 80s
He had dealerships up and down the West Coast. And yeah, Washington State geography wasn’t his strong suit.
by lemonverbena on Mar 16, 2010 7:04 PM PDT up reply actions
But WHY?
He wingwalked into the 80s straight out of another place and time.
Exactly.
“If you want to buy a truck, go see Cal…
Go see Cal
Go see Cal
Go see Cal!"
Yeah, I’ll go see Cal. I’ll go straight into his office and tell him to SHUT THE HELL UP!
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by PositivePaul on Mar 17, 2010 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
The guy I can't forget is Glen Grant
His “head on backwards” ad is still a disturbing memory from my childhood.
And I would have had no idea Burien even existed if not for him. I still don’t know what’s down there other than (presumably) a car dealership.
I've never tried this
But could you order a custom M’s jersey with the number 18 and just the hyphen character for a name?
Though a group of fans in the stands with all hyphen shirts like in the ad would be pretty awesome.
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Lets make them put them on the LL store and donate the profits to charity (so we don't get into legal trouble)
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 16, 2010 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Cafepress (or whoever) would still get a cut, therefore it wouldn't skirt that law.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Neither the M's nor MLB
Can copyright or trademark a simple number (Intel lost a suit to AMD on this point, which is why the 586 became the Pentium). Ditto for a hyphen. As long as you steered clear of any M’s or MLB marks, you could certainly legally sell a shirt with the number 18 and a line on it. (Or skip the line, if you want to be really safe, and folks can add it themselves with electrical tape).
Actually, what I think LL should sell is just “hyphens” — short strips of tape. As someone else has suggested, folks can apply them to shirts of their own choosing.
Opening day I'll be wearing this for who wants to say hi.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 16, 2010 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions 10 recs
Let's just say that the shirt I'll be wearing is... better...
And Kevin Martinez kicks all kinds of ass.
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently I am not the only one who immediately told K Martinez I'd got to Hyphen Shirt Day.
“Calls coming into the office asking if they r for sale. I’ve contacted Team Store folks. Stay tuned.”
But there were only 3 made for the commercial..
:-)
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
And you know the store ones will have a logo or tag or something
that differentiates them from the ‘game used’ shirts :)
(happy for you)
Make two and I'll pay you money for it!
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Mar 16, 2010 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll pitch in to help pay for these. Just keep me posted.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
Absolutely
We could hang out by the bullpen while wearing them and creep the whole ’pen out
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Mar 16, 2010 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, a group of people who lined up side-by-side along the bullpen fence...
…and then all removed their jackets together to reveal that shirt.
Would. Be. Awesome.
Equal parts hilarious and creepy.
Shit I was just going to print them myself. Transfer style.
But maybe I should figure out how to cafepress it or something.
by Scruffy Lefty on Mar 16, 2010 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Cafepress' quality is atrocious
Zazzle.com, however, I fully support. This isn’t an ad, either; I don’t work there or anything, I’ve just had a lot of work done through them, and they’re a very good company for one-off prints….
~I once gave Jose Canseco $15. ~
They have a wider selection of shirt types/colors/materials
And from my experience, the silkscreening is just better.
~I once gave Jose Canseco $15. ~
I laughed at all of them
I guess the Hyphen one was the weakest of the bunch but overall I like this years bunch.
[DELETED ZOMG NO POLITICS]
Better than recent years
Needed a Milton Bradley appearance.
I’m predicting lots of jokes playing off of “Believe Big” throughout game threads.
Too Bad TWSS is a dead meme...
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
"Would be funny to do the opposite commercial with Robinson Cano."
Ferguson Jenkins
Jefferson Davis
Uhh, I’m out.
I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.
Not entierely applicable, but I just saw that Edgar means "rich spear"
Wikipedia:
Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning “rich, happy, prosperous”) + gar (meaning “spear”). Literally meaning “prosperity-spear”.
Harrison Ford
And Indiana Jones, I guess (if Stringfellow Hawk opens it up to fictional characters).
Conrad Black
Heath Ledger
Sticking to ballplayers:
Edison Vasquez
Bronson Arroyo
by wandergeist on Mar 16, 2010 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
You could argue that any name is a first name.
Lloyd is also commonly a last name.
by Mariner John on Mar 16, 2010 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
But they're also last names
And more commonly so. At least, I’ve encountered both as last names in real life, whereas they seem to only be first names on celebs and their children (in the case of “Conrad” it seems to be particular to moguls. Conrad Hilton for another)
Anyone with the last name Conrad is a giant cocksucker.
by Teej on Mar 16, 2010 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Listen to this man!
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Nelson Cruz
Milton Bradley
CoCo Crisp
Nolan Reimold
Clayton Kershaw
Gordon Beckham
Hanley Ramirez
Grady Sizemore
Robinson Carusoe
Franklin Gutierrez
Ichiro Suzuki
.
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Definitely one of my faves...
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 11:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Ichiro is also not a family name.
It’s not uncommon for Japanese families to name their kids with something numerical to indicate their birth order. I don’t know if that’s the case for the Suzuki family, but “ichi” does mean 1, so yeah.
Fans are typically idiots.
by The Typical Idiot Fan on Mar 17, 2010 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
No, he is the second son.
I used to wonder why they would have named the second son First Son…. but recently someone (on that bastion of accuracy Wikipedia) noted "The Japanese name “Ichiro” is often written 一郎, meaning “first son”. Ichiro’s name, however, is written with a different character, 一朗, so that his name roughly means “brightest, most cheerful”."
WILSON VALDEZ.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://www.marinersminors.com/
Buck O'neil
Although his real first name is John.
so soon we forget
Puchy Delgado (so soon you all forget)
Odell Jones
Darnell Coles
by Steve Nelson on Mar 17, 2010 8:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Another variation is guys who have a last name first and first name last
such as Gorman Thomas.
by Steve Nelson on Mar 17, 2010 8:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, they're all better than Evan Longoria
Damnit, if that was the last out of a perfect game, that would mean Longoria was batting ninth. Really guys?
Try not to take me too seriously
Pinch hitting!
Longoria got the day off. Explains why he would be 0-2 in his previous AB as well.
This is the biggest reason why I don't like that commercial, beyond Longo having to be a douche.
Mauer does pretty good in the Show commercial, at least!
by BrettJMiller on Mar 17, 2010 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm just sick of seeing it every 30 seconds
Hey, Sony, have a look under your corporate seat cushions and find some money to hire at least a couple of other spokesmodels.
Or, heck, you’re already most of the way there — just have the animated player models do the ads, too.
This annoyed me as well.
But I don’t think the game would sell quite as well with Kapler or Navarro on the cover. Nor would it have the same pizazz if he broke up the perfecto in the 8th.
But still, dumb.
"Why did that guy make a shirt for Bartolo Colon? He clearly works for the Mariners. Do we have a spy in our midst? The shirt is red, but Colon hasn't pitched for a red team since 2008. Wouldn't RRS have seen this shirt already? So many questions."
He’s in advertising, they go with the guy what pay them.
I assumed RRS was crabby because he remembered the fiasco of Austria Night.
And I want a hyphen shirt.
Yeah, the RRS commercial definitely needs to be taken with that context
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
And if you remember Austria Night
That makes this one way better than some of the others. Right there with Ichiro saying “Of course you did.”
by ExiledToSoCal on Mar 16, 2010 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't remember the Austria night fiasco
Can you folks recap?
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by appleshampoo on Mar 16, 2010 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Odd. Can't find the archived ones.
Brief recap – the same ad guy comes up with this great promotion for RRS – Austria night, complete with polka, lederhosen, beer, funny hats, etc. Which is funny, cause he’s from Australia… yeah, ok you had to have seen it.
by ExiledToSoCal on Mar 16, 2010 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Ahh
I past commercial. For some reason I was envisioning an actual screw-up at a game involving Austria/Australia, which would be pretty awful. 10-4.
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by appleshampoo on Mar 16, 2010 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
True story
In the days before the web I called directory assistance in Vancouver BC to get the number for the Australian consulate. They gave me the number for the Austrian Consulate (who knew there even was one of those in Vancouver?) So I called the provided number and had a long and confusing conversation with the (accent-free) receptionist before she realized what I had done — and even when I explained it wasn’t my mistake I could tell she thought this was either a prank or I was an idiot, or both.
I guess the Winn Winn guy got old and retired
Or just was fired for not being smarmy enough.
Though I don’t really see any M’s-specific stuff in his office, so maybe he was supposed to be an outside consultant.
Though if the hyphen guy is an M’s guy, what was he doing working on colon?
So many questions….
This guy specialized in nick names. Their window says, Judson and Sons Nickname Consultants.
The character in other commercial could have worked for another team before the Mariners.
The M's guy has been around since at least 1999
he was in the “Lenny the Latte” ad.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 16, 2010 8:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Haven't lived in Washington for years...
…so the pre-season commercial release is about the only chance I get to see them, and this group is pretty good.
I love that the Manager and GM are featured so prominently, as if they are a part of what makes the fans, fans. What would have been the reaction to a commercial featuring Bavasi? Those two are the face of the franchise over the last year as much as any player is, and that can’t be anything but good for the team going forward.
Bavasi was in a 2008 commercial
How does Jose Vidro hit well from both sides of the plate?
Here’s the USSM thread on it.
Pat Gillick was also in an ad with Bret Boone once.
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by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 16, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Imperfect though it is...
The Gutierrez commercial seems like the yin to the Bavasi/Vidro commercial’s yang for the M’s blog-o-sphere fans. While the Hyphen commercial is my sentimental favorite, the Gutz one takes the cake for me. Junior/Ichiro’s is classic and epic and will appeal to the masses. But I like the subtlety of the Gutz commercial.
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Immortalized is the best.
The others were good but the sheer ridiculousness of that one puts it over the top.
Best line and delivery
Z: “I saw that”.
Close second:
Ichiro: “Of course you did”.
Yeah, that line put that commercial over the top for me
These are definitely better than most of the Bavasi era commercials.
by seattle_since_81 on Mar 16, 2010 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
My favorites:
1) Ichiro/Griffey. Ichiro does a great job on this one, ‘of course you did’, and ‘JUNIOR!!!!!!’
Loved this one.
2) JackZ/Wak/Guti. Was nice to see the GM in one. Was predictable but I still like it.
3) Bullpen. The portrait is really freaky.
4) Cliff Lee/Felix/Figgins. I dont really get it. Yeah He has two names that are often first names. Meh.
5) RRS. I wish they had done something other than RRS not liking the hyphen shirt. Out of character for RRS.
I've got it!
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by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 2:14 PM PDT reply actions 31 recs
Somebody needs to do this
In person. For real. From those seats, or comparable.
And hold it up or every pitcher in the bullpen.
Bonus points if you can dance like Red, or are otherwise as visually distinctive.
The first three I really like
Liked Figgins laying it on thick, liked the subtlety of Z’s acting, laughed out loud at “JUNIOOOOOOR”.
RRS was okay but they might have done more with it, but I guess that many of us were already ‘in’ on the Hyphen moniker and so from then on it wasn’t going to get funnier.
Didn’t like the painting one much.
I would have to say that all of them were pretty good except
I thought the Hyphen one was pretty lame. I laughed out loud to all of the other ones, and the Felix/Lee/Figgins one was really funny.
Compared to the commercials the last few years which were fucking terrible, these ones are awesome.
I loved the bullpen one simply for Lowe's reactions.
I don’t know what it is exactly, but him saying “That is so true” was the only time I laughed out loud watching these. I suppose it’s because that’s how I picture him being in real life.
The Hyphen one was dumb. The golf one could have been a little better. The ending joke definitely saved it.
How dumb did Gutierrez feel running around a fairway catching golf balls?
Also
Ichiro yelling was awesome for some reason. I couldn’t picture him shouting until now.
And I really hope that painting is hung up in the bullpen somewhere.
The golf one just didn't have an actual joke to it, other than the throwaway line at the end.
When you saw Wak line up his shot, you knew exactly what would happen. I was waiting for more. The rest of them had punchlines, at least.
I think the Gootch one would have been a bit better if it followed the model of the old Boone "Bat-Flip" commercial
Where he just can’t help but catch everything. So, Wak and Z are golfing. As soon as Wak tees off, have Gootch come running out of nowhere to make the catch and making Wak and Z mad because they can never get in a game of golf.
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by tootthekazoo on Mar 16, 2010 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Catch a baby. Catching babies is always funny.
by Kermit. on Mar 16, 2010 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
And just imagine how funny the blooper reel would be for that
by OlSalty on Mar 17, 2010 10:01 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 3 recs
Or if they had set up the fact that he has great range better.
I think that is what’s missing. There is no real set up for why he is catching the golf ball besides the fact that he catches everything. Maybe they could have had a foursome of Jack, Wak, Griffey, and Guti, and then when Wak hits the ball, Guti takes off after it and catches it. If they used Griffey, Jack or Wak could’ve played off the fact that Guti looks like a young Griffey or something like that. If we had no reference for who it was, I think the commercial would’ve been a bit better. We already knew they were going to be highlighting Guti in it, so I think we all expected more. I still like it for the ending, though.
by seattle_since_81 on Mar 17, 2010 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I liked all of them
Because this crop was so much better than last year’s. Five thumbs up, fo’ rizzle.
~I once gave Jose Canseco $15. ~
Your Guti/Lee ad idea was really good.
Just one edit from the Jack/Wak/Guti ad.
Jack Z needed to say “Well at the end of the day that is why we traded for him.”
As a whole this might be the best set in a couple of years or more.
I thought I told you to trim those sideburns, err length!
Go home, you’re off the blog, for good!
by Janic on Mar 16, 2010 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hahahaha!
Must be using the Impact font.
Does the World Series trophy come with a plate of bacon?
by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I think they were trying to avoid it looking like a minus sign.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
I love the Felix/Lee commercial
Felix just looks like the annoying little kid who follows you around, and I’m not ashamed to say his voice sounds really cute.
I think it was Divish that compared it to Bubba in Forrest Gump rattling off shrimp dishes.
Thinking of that, it makes it even funnier to me.
Agh...why the hell aren't these playing?
I have Adobe flash. Stop toying with me MLB.com. Play the damn ads.
I've always had problems as well. It doesn't like nexdef either. I used Chrome for all my mlb related surfing.
FUCK ERIC BYRNES FUCK ERIC BYRNES!
I voted his just for that reason.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
Anyone else having trouble getting the videos to play?
I hit play, and then it just goes to a black screen and never starts playing. Am I doing something wrong/stupid?
Juan Carlos Perez, please start hitting.
Too bad "Castaway" was so long ago
You could certainly do something with losing volleyballs overboard and not worrying about it because the team has so many backup Wilsons…
I would have loved it.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Mar 16, 2010 8:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Does anyone else think Ichiro screams like
Eli Wallach at the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when Wallach screams Blondie!!
Did not make that connection
Though now that you mention it, Ichiro has a bit of that Eastwood whisper. One can imagine an opposing team’s reliever coming in to face Ichiro, who mutters “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
Wait so the Cliff Lee commercial
is the two members of the team with the longest contracts making fun of him? So much for resigning…
Yeah, because that will be the deciding factor
In reality, I don’t think the M’s have a hope in hell of signing Lee unless they have the highest offer in free agency, period.
It's hard to justify putting that much of the budget into pitching when they're so much more injury prone than position players
Even though Lee is awesome.
Become?
What’s with you today…
Sheesh.
:-)
Does the World Series trophy come with a plate of bacon?
by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions
OT, but...
Bill James answering questions on Geoff Baker Live right now:
Not many viewers, should have let us know beforehand
Tonight on Geoff Baker Live!: special guest Bill James takes questions. Tentative start 6 p.m. Pacific:
about 10 hours ago via web
@gbakermariners
Sean White was in the bullpen one
Do you think that means something?
Remember that ad with Pokey Reese?
It means about as much as Sean White being on the Mariners Caravan.
But I think White is in as long as he's healthy.
Wak tried to adopt him and knits him sweaters in the winter. He seems to love him.
I think Wak has had some hair rejuvenation done.
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I have a Ropert is God™ complex.
Here's a man destined for a baseball cap.
I'd sleep at the Internet, but I've found servers don't make for good pillows.
by thehemogoblin on Mar 16, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I gotta bring back the Shave It Off Don nickname
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 16, 2010 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Awwww...
He and Jackie Z would match!
Does the World Series trophy come with a plate of bacon?
by PositivePaul on Mar 16, 2010 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
OMMFG Jeff Sullivan replied to my post directly!
Could I have you autograph it?
I'd sleep at the Internet, but I've found servers don't make for good pillows.
by thehemogoblin on Mar 17, 2010 1:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I would not mind an entire 30 seconds of watching Ichiro fake being stuck in a chair.
The outtakes on that had me laughing out loud in the library.
...and now I'm here
Missing from commercials...
In the past, that has meant something.
Fans are typically idiots.
by The Typical Idiot Fan on Mar 17, 2010 2:31 PM PDT reply actions
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