PlayStation thinks Dustin Pedroia is a hack
There's so much to enjoy in this new "Dustin vs. PlayStation" campaign by Deutsch for the MLB '09: The Show video game. First, it's got Dustin Pedroia, the unlikely American League MVP and just-as-unlikely pitchman, arguing with the makers of the game over how it's been programmed: namely, that his avatar can't hit the high-and-inside fastball. The Red Sox second baseman insists he can indeed hit it, and he wouldn't be polishing his MVP trophy if he couldn't. Even better: His nemesis in the campaign is PlayStation's "director of game accuracy," played by the hilarious dude from the Holiday Inn commercials—the one who tells his buddies to "bring it down a notch" when they're hassling Joe Buck in the hotel bar, and who later falls asleep in the tanning bed. The PlayStation channel on YouTube currently only has these two spots: the "Dustin vs. PlayStation" ad above and the "Joe the Fan" spot below (possibly starring David Gianatasio in the role of Joe). There are a bunch more on the way. Hopefully the Holiday Inn guy will make whale sounds in at least one of them. |
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March 17, 2009 in Baseball, Deutsch, Jerry Lambert, Nudd, PlayStation, Video games | Permalink |
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Yeah, this is just super-fabulous sportball game crap advertising. woo hoo.
Posted by: BobH | Mar 17, 2009 8:35:00 PM
I agree with the original post...this guy may be the best actor to do ads in a long time...and I think he's better here doing straight faced hatred of pedroia than he was being a clown for Holiday Inn
Posted by: glenn | Mar 18, 2009 3:39:15 PM
Again with the racial stereotype
Posted by: Andrew | Mar 18, 2009 8:55:24 PM
I like the one for the other game better. The video game for this one is better though
Posted by: Ringer | Mar 19, 2009 2:27:28 AM
Joe the fan is Nick Di Brizzi Jr. not David Gianitasio.
Posted by: Nick D. | Apr 19, 2009 3:53:04 PM
