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Blue Jays come out swinging in 2008 ads

Better baseball teams, it would seem, produce better ads. The Minnesota Twins and the Texas Rangers, both sub-.500 squads last season, grounded out to the pitcher with their 2008 ad salvos. The Toronto Blue Jays, meanwhile, who haven’t been in a World Series since the first Bush presidency but who had a (barely) winning record in the American League East last year, field a (somewhat) more pleasing campaign from the local office of Publicis. The three spots sausaged into the video above purport to show current Jays stars as kids some 20 years ago, when their baseball skills were already evident. That’s all well and good, but this is a Canadian team, and should have been banned from the American League years ago. What’s next, Opening Day in Japan?

—Posted by David Gianatasio

March 26, 2008 | Permalink

Comments

Actually the Blue Jays played in (and won) the 1993 World Series. I don't think I have to remind you that Bill Clinton had already taken office by that time.

Posted by: Jen | Mar 26, 2008 12:42:06 PM

Jen, is it ALWAYS about Clinton w/ you? Stop living in the past! Sure, I miss The X-Files as much as the next guy. And yes, I very vaguely resemble David Duchovny. From that era. If he was ill that day. And I was standing in weak light ... wearing a David Duchovny mask. What about NAFTA? What about steroids and Barry Bonds? What about my lost youth? It's not as simple as you'd have us believe, Jen. Go Yanks!

Posted by: daveg | Mar 26, 2008 6:09:46 PM

At first I was very confused by your comment. Not only was that my first comment on this blog (which makes your ALWAYS statement totally off the mark), but I can't say I really care for Clinton - either of them, actually. All I was doing was pointing out a factual error in the original post.

But then I got to your Go Yanks at the end and the absurdity of your comment made all the sense in the world.

Posted by: Jen | Mar 27, 2008 9:40:38 AM

Ah Jen, we'll always have these exchanges, won't we? Your sober ying to my something yang or whateever that saying is.

You know what I mean: JETER RULES!

Posted by: daveg | Mar 27, 2008 9:51:19 AM

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