Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

[u/_HGCenty]

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

[u/BalzacTheGreat]

All the sports betting ads, ED ads, pharma ads, the Hegseth fascist military ads, the unhinged political ads, it’s all fucking enough already. 

EDIT: I'm glad we can all agree on something, flairs notwithstanding.

[u/unfortunatebastard → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Man, those war ads are so weird. And we’re playing for it.

[u/PackageDangerous1954 → u/unfortunatebastard]

WARRIOR ETHOS,PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, aka bombing schools and hospitals

[u/FORTY8pak → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Nothing says warrior like having a hair and makeup suite set up in the Pentagon.

[u/grubas → u/FORTY8pak]

And AI/fake as fuck looking backgrounds 

[u/Upset-Dingo-6879 → u/FORTY8pak]

This. That soft bitch is as far from the term "warrior" as you can possibly get. He sure likes to cosplay though.

[u/timeoftheoath117 → u/FORTY8pak]

Its been a while since I worked there, but pretty sure the Pentagon has a makeup store lol. Also a very convenient flower store for the poor dudes working all hours so they can bring flowers home to their wife.

[u/SupahBlah → u/PackageDangerous1954]

KANE LIVES

[u/JortsFanClub → u/SupahBlah]

PEACE THROUGH POWER

[u/Doyometer → u/SupahBlah]

I understood this reference

[u/meerkatmreow → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Is war even worth it without the war crimes?

[u/HonorableJudgeIto → u/PackageDangerous1954]

WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EASTASIA

[u/Bourbonstr8up → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Warrior ethos makes me laugh every time that stupid thing is on.

[u/megacia → u/PackageDangerous1954]

Sigh, take an upvote Yankees fan.

[u/jdbolick → u/unfortunatebastard]

Who is that ad supposed to target? The people who crow about patriotism are too busy at their keyboards to serve.

The people who actually join the military want a job with benefits.

[u/sentry_chad → u/jdbolick]

There’s a fresh batch of 18 year olds every year

[u/jlrc2 → u/sentry_chad]

Those batches are getting smaller every year as well, so the armed forces will need to get an increasingly high percentage of them to sign up if they want to maintain their numbers.

[u/galacticdude7 → u/jlrc2]

It's almost as if something happened 18 years ago that ruined the economy and made people not want to have kids

[u/jlrc2 → u/galacticdude7]

Yeah that was definitely a metaphorical kick in the nuts although it seems like there are other things at play too

[u/HudsonMelvale2910 → u/galacticdude7]

Uhg, my first thought was “What happened in the late 90s?”

[u/pepperouchau → u/jdbolick]

Somehow is even more cringe that the “army of one climb a mountain hoorah” stuff I remember as a kid

[u/tonesloe → u/pepperouchau]

At least those didn't feel like something written for an Ironman movie, that is supposed to be so over the top you know it's fake.

[u/BritzBeef → u/jdbolick]

Reassure the people who are already on their side. It's like how car ads are often actually for people who have already bought the car and meant to help them feel reassured of their purchase decision.

[u/myassholealt → u/BritzBeef]

meant to help them feel reassured of their purchase decision.

So many American manufucturer ads stopped even touting the actual build quality of the car and it's all blah blah, America, Patriot, America, Be Proud, Buy our vehicle cause America.

[u/sculltt → u/myassholealt]

Car ads are almost all emotional appeals, even if they aren't claiming patriotism. There's no logical way to try to convince people to buy a hugely expensive item with massive depreciation that people use on average 4% of the time (and even then, most of that time people hate using it, because it means dealing with/being stuck in traffic.)

[u/myassholealt → u/sculltt]

Maybe I'm in the minority then, cause back in the day they used to provide info like crash test ratings and other data from tests or award categories. It wasn't exclusively the patriotism angle. Even some of the pickup truck ads don't even advertise how much weight in can tow. It's just 30 seconds telling us in multiple ways to be a patriot by buying their product.

[u/Asshole_Poet → u/jdbolick]

We keep the middle class poor and college expensive so we can sucker in kids who want to escape the cycle. If some of them die, fuck it!

[u/PostIronicPosadist → u/jdbolick]

incels mostly.

[u/tokengaymusiccritic → u/jdbolick]

It's just as much intended to reassert the social norm of troop worship and the image of "America (and the GOP) = strong"

[u/jdbolick → u/tokengaymusiccritic]

But the people this actually will work on already feel that way because they're beer bellied LARPers who put Punisher logos on their lifted pick-ups. Those guys aren't signing up for anything but diabetes.

[u/deathinmidjuly → u/jdbolick]

Those people are immensely important to this regime.

You have people at home that would aggressively shut down any questioning of what the hell our military is doing.

Keeps red towns red and keeps regular people from understanding that you can condemn your government while still being patriotic.

Sorry for the rant.

[u/NewAccountSamePerson → u/jdbolick]

My toddler thinks the vehicles in it are cool

[u/darkhorse21980 → u/jdbolick]

But do they really want to enlist when they could get stuck indefinitely on a rusting aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean?

[u/travers329 → u/jdbolick]

And a whole lot of them have been offline since Ukraine hit those Russian data centers. What a strange coincidence! Like mentions of Fauci dropping off by like 60% at the same time on Twitter.

[u/HighKing_of_Festivus → u/jdbolick]

People who think it's badass to send other people to war

[u/Icy_Suspect_3735 → u/jdbolick]

The von Bismarcks

[u/FopFillyFoneBone → u/jdbolick]

My wife and I are both veterans from long ago, we both got out 24 years ago. Just yesterday we were talking about the current state of the military and its leadership and my wife says to me, "Who the hell would join the military today?"

I imagine those ads are completely useless and targeted at people who already know they want to join the military, ad or no ad.

[u/Burto72 → u/unfortunatebastard]

The fact that there is a war.gov website is kind of disturbing.

[u/grubas → u/Burto72]

The entire ad is Fascist.  It's not fascist coded it's not fascist winking.  It's literally what you'd expect a character to turn on the TV to illustrate that this is a fascist government.

[u/lot183 → u/grubas]

I mean they are live streaming an execution. All the hallmarks

[u/grubas → u/lot183]

Live execution by firing squad of a dude who is in a wheelchair.  

Even the fucking British in 1916 thought people wouldn't like that!

[u/OrangeCrusher22 → u/grubas]

Would you like to know more?

[u/RogueModron → u/Burto72]

I still kind of can't believe that it's now called the War Department.

[u/karawec403 → u/RogueModron]

Legally it’s not. Congress named it DoD, only Congress can change it. War is just the current administration’s preferred pronouns.

[u/Opening-Bandicoot859 → u/RogueModron]

For most of our history, it's been called the war department.

[u/RogueModron → u/Opening-Bandicoot859]

I understand that.

Regardless, I still kind of can't believe that it's now called the War Department.

[u/VarRalapo → u/Burto72]

Everything about your country in 2026 is disturbing.

[u/ThreeEyesWhitePerson → u/Burto72]

From the regime that supposedly was against forever wars.

[u/draw2discard2 → u/Burto72]

Truth in advertising. I like this a lot better than calling it "defense" while doing more or less the same shit.

[u/maxweb1 → u/unfortunatebastard]

fucking disgusting and more than a few obvious nazi nods

[u/renee_gade → u/maxweb1]

never thought the term would be neutered to the point it strikes zero emotion. thanks kids.

(my bad. those commercials are definitely akin to racial extermination propaganda. the term is as strong as ever.)

[u/wazzledudes → u/renee_gade]

Sounds like more of a you problem

[u/Call555JackChop → u/unfortunatebastard]

https://giphy.com/gifs/JtrlqX5gCiixG

[u/D_Simmons → u/unfortunatebastard]

Why are the Braves playing for ads?

[u/Chance_Ad2503 → u/unfortunatebastard]

I think they’re AI

[u/RobutNotRobot → u/unfortunatebastard]

Even the 80s satire movies like Robocop couldn't have come up with something that dumb.

[u/Far_Cry_2173 → u/unfortunatebastard]

As someone living in MA, they straight up don’t even waste their money showing them here. I’ve seen them online but not once on TV 

[u/hbailey311 → u/unfortunatebastard]

funny how it says something about peace and then it shows “war.gov” at the end.

[u/Kidspud → u/unfortunatebastard]

The bald eagle looks like it's posing for a thirst trap to send to potential mates

[u/Gloomy-Historian761 → u/unfortunatebastard]

I’m as American as they come, but the War.Gov ads make me want to slit my wrists. Imagine WWII vets watching that Nazi propaganda.

[u/murdochthesungod → u/unfortunatebastard]

Not nearly as weird as the HIV prep ones

[u/EggsDontLieAtNight → u/murdochthesungod]

You choose to be this hateful, and that is sad.

[u/MC_Micro_Penis → u/BalzacTheGreat]

For me the absolute darkest ads are from one of the casinos that advertises on spectrum. It will usually show a couple doing whatever, some kind of resort activity, then they will pass through a door that leads to a beautiful landscape where, incongruously, two slot machines are waiting. Of course, these days slot machines are basically designed with the goal of making us into drooling zombies, mashing on a button for hours on end in a diaper.

I think the tag line is the incredibly new-speak-esque "welcome to freedom".

Every time I see it I feel genuinely sad.

[u/KRandMG → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

Come on man, those ads are totally realistic.

All the gorgeous 23-year-old women spend their Friday nights dressed to the nines at the local Indian casino an hour away from civilization, where every man is wearing a tailored suit and high-fiving his buddies as he wins for the fourth time in a row.

[u/ILoveCornbread420 → u/KRandMG]

My favorite part is when the guy magically comes out of a TV to refill a lady’s wine glass, then she immediately walks away.

[u/KRandMG → u/ILoveCornbread420]

Or the 40-something guy who’s just out of shape enough to be somewhat relatable to the average suburban dad walking in with his beautiful 30-something blonde wife as they smile and open their mouths to gasp while taking in the majesty of the dimly-lit room that smells like lung darts and old people who don’t have anything in their 401k.

And remember—according to the voiceover, you’re not a sucker when you go to the casino, you’re a “player.”

[u/Charming_Squirrel_13 → u/KRandMG]

i haven’t seen these ads but this comment chain has me very confused lol 

[u/KRandMG → u/Charming_Squirrel_13]

If you move anywhere within a 2-hour drive of an Indian casino there’s an excellent chance you’ll see one exactly as described, many, many times, during just about every single sporting event you watch.

They’ll also highlight the resort’s golf course where the husband goes to ditch his family after gambling away the kids’ college funds as they sit and wait for him by the pool.

[u/ThePrussianGrippe → u/KRandMG]

The most normal ones I’ve seen is a group of people dancing through different areas of the casino, which is at least normal and not a surrealist nightmare.

[u/MC_Micro_Penis → u/KRandMG]

Your not even a player, your a "winner."

[u/altoona_sprock → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

Just like lottery ticket commercials with cartoon animals. PA has Gus the groundhog. I'm sure everyplace else has something similar. Gus even has a "clever" catchphrase. Keep on scratchin!

Scratch your way to forclosure!

Casinos are fun. But like alcohol, moderation and self control is the key. And neither is promoted in any commercial ever.

[u/SmallLetter → u/altoona_sprock]

Addictive activities need to be regulated against advertising at the MINIMUM in such a way that children will never see them. Cigarettes, alcohol, gambling. Anything else is an absolute FAILURE to uphold "the best interests of the child", which is a simple and yet profound concept that most world experts consider to be FOUNDATIONAL to any functionally just and ordered society. Ergo, america is a cesspit that doesn't give 2 shits about it's kids

[u/ausar999 → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3GchqRqSKE14gDDxu0

[u/MrSwedishFish → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

Hate those commercials, always been so eerie to me

[u/vektorog → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

idk the "winner" for me is those AI medicare scams they constantly show on the streaming version of local news stations

[u/AnotherUnfunnyName → u/MC_Micro_Penis]

I also can't stand the current DraftKings rewards club ad read I have to skip over or listen to on most podcasts currently. I mean that kind of betting and the behavior of Draftkings is deplorable anyway, but this just seems so unethical. Getting rewarded for losing? They are kinda doing it anyway to keep milking their wales and addicts, but this is so blatant.

[u/bantha42 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Kind of insane the 180 we did on gambling as a society seemingly overnight.

[u/RogueModron → u/bantha42]

I'm guessing there was some policy or policies that were quietly dismantled.

You ever wonder why televangelism and the associated scams got big in the 80s? Like why specifically then? There used to be a law that television stations had to give up a few hours of air time on Sundays (or it may have been the weekend) for cheap/free religious programming, that wasn't allowed to profit from this. Reagan did away with that. So the wolves swooped in and started in with the prosperity gospel and made tons of money on it.

This is obviously a paraphrase and honestly it's half-remembered from when I read the excellent book Sleepwalking Through History by Haynes Johnson about the Reagan years, but it's correct in the broad strokes.

The point is, it's usually some small and boring policy change that has huge consequences.

[u/Artistic_Bit6866 → u/bantha42]

The administration’s favorable policies towards prediction markets, which their family members are invested in, has accelerated this. Things were already trending towards more gambling, but it’s been supercharged

[u/jimihenderson → u/bantha42]

there's really no "we". there's a commission of people who decided that money is more important than protecting people who are weak and vulnerable to this specific thing. most people tend to have the same beliefs on it, freedom is a good thing and overregulation of how we spend our money isn't the government's business, but much like cigarettes we don't need to see ads rubbing our noses in it at every corner and the degree to which it is predatory towards children should probably have some regulation. at least that's how everyone i know looks at it and has always looked at it

[u/Unfrozen__Caveman → u/BalzacTheGreat]

It's an accurate representation of the state of our country unfortunately. 

[u/alf0nz0 → u/Unfrozen__Caveman]

The entire economy: scams, subscriptions, drugs, and gambling

[u/Bigjonstud90 → u/alf0nz0]

Depending on what app you’re using, you can parlay it into a subscription gambling scam!

[u/sans-forme → u/alf0nz0]

I read: scams, scams, scams, and scams.

[u/WholeLottaRose13 → u/alf0nz0]

and unsustainable resource extraction, can't forget that.

[u/fugaziozbourne → u/Unfrozen__Caveman]

Watching American sports streams as a non American is such a peculiar experience. Every single ad is fraud, gambling, authoritarianism, or drugs.

[u/mediumrainbow → u/fugaziozbourne]

Did you mean politics?

[u/billnye97 → u/Unfrozen__Caveman]

That is why I sail the seas and watch a British channel for it. It is funny to see all the in game ads with a nice little overlay that says not in the UK or Ireland. Although I still get the British version of some of the gambling ads.

[u/agarret83 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

This is a symptom of every facet of life unfortunately, not just baseball broadcasts. I have made it my mission to block every “Kalshi partner” I get on TikTok and I’m approaching 100 in the last week

[u/ProjectHarraseeket → u/agarret83]

Every day I’m more and more tempted to just come in the woods and live my life there as a hermit.

[u/gravitasofmavity → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Seriously. I don’t know if the execs care about these things, but I’ll tune out if the commercials get on my nerves. Getting old i guess… truly not enjoying the hyper commercialization of this sport. Doubly so when the ada are all gambling, ED, big pharma, and political ads.

[u/unshifted → u/BalzacTheGreat]

During one commercial break in the Guardians/Rays game, all I could think is that this is exactly what the ad breaks during Ow My Balls looked like.

[u/FloridaMan_69 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Huh, I guess I'm really glad I'm watching the ALCS on HBO Max, where they just play this annoying little musical stinger on a loop.

[u/amansman → u/FloridaMan_69]

I'm glad for the reprieve from ads, but I swear that musical stinger was designed by an interrogation torture fetishist.  I'm glad someone else noticed.

[u/Rock_Strongo → u/amansman]

Whoever is responsible for choosing the audio for that should be forced to listen to it for at least 2 hours per day for a week. I bet they'd make a different choice.

[u/Cabanarama_ → u/BalzacTheGreat]

It blows my mind that there are people out there who watch commercials without pressing mute. Mute is the second most important button on the remote, behind Power.

(Most of these are still pretty obnoxious even on mute, though.)

[u/No_Difference_9195 → u/Cabanarama_]

I do this when ads get repetitive and my brain can’t take them anymore. But normally, I use the sound as a signal when the game is back on. I’m doing something and listening for the commentators or other intro, as opposed to staring at the screen without sound or constantly looking up to see if it’s back on.

[u/HellDimensionQueen → u/No_Difference_9195]

Yah, usually I can tune out the ads and look at my phone or use it for a bathroom break. But ads these games, oy vey

[u/fid_a → u/Cabanarama_]

Sadly, when using an Apple TV, the only way to mute is the phone app remote or if you have a separate sound system and remote for that specifically. I even mute / ffwd the mid inning 2/3 screen ads but after a while I give up cause it’s exhausting to keep opening my phone app. But yeah, Muting is the way.

[u/CrabbingSkiff → u/fid_a]

That is unhinged and sociopathic.

[u/budmanthecubfan → u/fid_a]

How the fuck did apple manage to make muting proprietary?

[u/aratingas → u/budmanthecubfan]

The Apple TV remote has a mute button. I’m not sure what that guy even means? You obviously have to set it up once to connect it to the TV/sound system but after that it works fine.

[u/fid_a → u/aratingas]

Eh, mine doesn’t but clearly others do:

[u/fid_a → u/budmanthecubfan]

They added it eventually, it’s likely just a design decision to keep the grid on the remote as minimal and simple as possible and feedback said that a mute button was less helpful than a…microphone/Siri button? Who knows.

[u/Low-Crazy-8061 → u/fid_a]

What? The Apple TV remote absolutely has a mute button

[u/fid_a → u/Low-Crazy-8061]

Newer versions apparently do, but mine is like the two left options here. Fair point but it’s not worth an upgrade for my situation.

[u/hellajt → u/Cabanarama_]

Usually I'll get up to take a dump or grab a beer or something, and I'll leave the volume on so I can hear when the game is starting back up

[u/crow_revolution → u/Cabanarama_]

I started muting them and just reading in between innings, honestly getting a lot of reading done that way

[u/BropolloCreed → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I'd still take all those over the political attack ads I'm subjected to this time of year

[u/meerkatmreow → u/BropolloCreed]

How else am I supposed to learn that Sherrod Brown wants to personally trans my kids all by himself?

[u/darnoc9265 → u/meerkatmreow]

As a trans sports fan, it’s so fucking exhausting. I just want to escape into my sportsball and instead I get these relentless bombardments, and in every sport

[u/penguinopph → u/darnoc9265]

As a trans sports fan, it’s so fucking exhausting.

Same, friend. We're strong, but I'm tired of having to be so strong every waking moment.

[u/Mayor_Gubbin → u/darnoc9265]

As a trans sports fan

I misunderstood this at first, and was like, wait, are there trans sports leagues?

[u/penguinopph → u/meerkatmreow]

How else am I supposed to learn that Sherrod Brown wants to personally trans my kids all by himself?

I've said this in other threads, but that ad really sucks to see as a trans-woman who lives in Illinois. Not only is it personally attacking me, but I'm not even eligible to vote in that state!

[u/Rc5tr0 → u/penguinopph]

Not only is it personally attacking me, but I'm not even eligible to vote in that state!

Fun fact, the woman starring in those ads isn’t either! She has no connection to Ohio and was not a minor when she had surgery.

[u/sculltt → u/Rc5tr0]

It's like the attack ad against Acton where the woman blames her for her mother dying, when her mother lived in Kentucky.

[u/KGEighty8 → u/meerkatmreow]

Only if your kid is already 19 and lives in Texas

[u/meerkatmreow → u/KGEighty8]

"They did it without my parents consent!"

"Yes, because you were an adult and could consent yourself"

[u/BropolloCreed → u/meerkatmreow]

I'm kinda enjoying the mud slinging around Max Miller/Brian Poindexter, ngl. That race has basically turned into each of them pointing at each other and screaming, "no, YOU'RE the bigger piece of shit!"

[u/Greatlarrybird33 → u/BropolloCreed]

It's interesting that those two has attack ads running every ad break, and sherrod browns trans ads/ Acton covid ads every other, but I've yet to see a pro Acton or brown ad.

[u/girlywish → u/meerkatmreow]

So fucking awkward watching the game with my family when I'm trans, and that ad comes on. The whole room gets quiet. I started getting up between innings just to avoid it.

[u/CarlySimonSays → u/BropolloCreed]

They're extra annoying when they're for elections in other states! National political ads should be saved for presidential election years.

[u/BropolloCreed → u/CarlySimonSays]

I'd argue they should be banned outright. Show me two dudes in diapers kissing on top of a unicorn that's jumping over a rainbow all day long while a half-naked Sydney Sweeney eats pudding with her hands, but keep the political crap off my TV.

[u/dawidowmaka → u/BropolloCreed]

Somehow I'm getting Alaska Senate attack ads in Seattle

[u/BropolloCreed → u/dawidowmaka]

I'm watching on Unimas locally ota, and the only thing I get is ads for Spanish shows, iphones, and prescription medications (which is hilarious when they discuss the side effects).

The political stuff isn't there, and it's fantastic

[u/altoona_sprock → u/BropolloCreed]

it's a shame where fearmongering and scapegoating is normalized, or even encouraged, but the human body is scandalous.

[u/Ihate_reddit_app → u/BalzacTheGreat]

It's Idiocracy in motion.

[u/Sufficient_Swing_406 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

From Canada and use an IPTV currently. I think sportnet keeps blocking the IPTV from using their content so sometimes I need to watch FOX or some other american sports station to watch the game. Holy fuck, the politcal ads are nuts. Never seen anything like it. No wonder you guys are getting so brainwashed down there.

[u/PlasticBottleHater → u/Sufficient_Swing_406]

Don't worry buddy from what I've heard it's coming to a theatre near you soon enough, Putin spreads like a wildfire

[u/Sufficient_Swing_406 → u/PlasticBottleHater]

Maybe. But for now our federal conservative party has never been so unpopular. Hopefully Ukraine can hit a few more bot farms or maybe some legislation can be made to address them.

[u/PlasticBottleHater → u/Sufficient_Swing_406]

I hope so, hopefully your populous isn't as stupid as ours and you don't elect a conman

[u/Sufficient_Swing_406 → u/PlasticBottleHater]

We came close, but your conman got involved and the tide changed almost overnight.

[u/RedWire75 → u/PlasticBottleHater]

Twice.

[u/I-like-kinky-stuff → u/Sufficient_Swing_406]

Never been a better time to be Canadian, and at the same time, Canada is half fucked now too simply by watching their "news" lol

[u/ATLBraves6 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Weird times

[u/astrofan → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Seeing so many Ken Paxton ads in Texas. Can't wait for the election to be done.

[u/mulder00 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I usually can't tell the difference between the Hegseth ads for the Military and the ad for the next COD game.

[u/Upset-Dingo-6879 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

The one thing that can bring Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc. fans together - shared disgust for Pete Hegseth.

[u/Wbran → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Yet I bet any Ad with two guys holding hands will get the most ire from some populations.

[u/jigglypat19 → u/Wbran]

I mean, why do you think the sydney sweeney ad is the one people take most issue with? I don't think a clearly-but-not-really shirtless woman is as scandalous as people want to believe it is, even if the advertising people know exactly what they're doing. but I'm also a woman, so I think women's bodies are whatever. worthy of the pearl-clutching? no. but I assume most of the audience is conservative, so it's not like they wouldn't have found some other thing to be mad about

[u/Feeling_Barnacle_584 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Forreal

[u/workinkindofhard → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I have no qualms about pirating the games and most of the streams don't have ads, they just show the 'commercial break in progress' screen

[u/RogueModron → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I watch the games on a time delay in europe through MLB.TV, and get no ads. I kinda want to see what the fuck is up with TV ads in the U.S. these days (I'm American, but immigrated away in 2022). Also, I kinda don't want to know.

[u/ClasslessHero → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I don't mind the ones that tell people Jon Husted loves pdf files. Or how Ramaswamy is an evil little douchelord.

But yeah it's getting old. Only... one more month.

[u/Rhielml → u/BalzacTheGreat]

I've been enjoying watching the games through my VSeeBox because I'm watching the Canadian broadcast and see Canadian commercials instead of American ones and the difference is absolutely night and day.

No political ads, no Pharma, no ED pills, no gambling, no fascism. It's like I traveled back in time to 1991 (non election year).

It makes me want to move to Canada even more.

[u/FloatingWalls1 → u/Rhielml]

I feel like we get a lot of gambling ads though?

[u/Rhielml → u/FloatingWalls1]

Now you have me questioning my memory on that one. But if you do have them, I don't remember seeing them in my limited sample size. At least not as much as I see them on US broadcasts.

[u/GeneParmesan86 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Most of the new music I know is just pharmaceutical jingles.

[u/wretch5150 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Yep, fucking DONE with this shit.

[u/EezoVitamonster → u/BalzacTheGreat]

The AI anime pharmaceutical ad is particularly off-putting.

[u/Chipotlefiend18 → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Goddamnit, I fucking HATE agreeing with Dodgers fans. Fuck you for making me agree with you on literally anything

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This center field kalshi odds and prop scoreboard break is brought to you by fanduel at the betmgm field here at poly market stadium.

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I miss 2009. Seemed like postseason baseball was the time of year video game companies did advertising blitzes for their holiday games. Still had pharma and political ads. But it was nice to see a solid amount of Mario, Master Chief and Pikachu mixed in.

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Watching the game in a bar surrounded by strangers has never been more weird

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In fairness, one of those things is not like the other. Is it really so bad that kids learn what the Department Formerly Known as Defense has been doing all along? Maybe if more people thought about this they wouldn't only care about war when the price of gas goes up.

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Don’t forget about the AI ads!

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I don't know if baseball understands this because money, but having all of your commercials being directed to people 65+ is not going to attract a younger audience.

The national ad buys on the Cleveland series for perhaps the worst negative political ads I've seen is something else too.

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Don't forget liberty mutual, and other insurance ads

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What happened to normal advertising?

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Don’t forget the ballsack trimmer adds. They really help make watching baseball a wholesome family experience.

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As someone with an incredibly fragile ego who isn't comfortable with my own masculinity, I appreciate it.

It reminds me what it means to be American. If I wasn't seeing breasts behind footballs, eagles, war, guns and pills for my erectile dysfunction, I don't know what I'd do. It might even make me start believing that women and minorities deserve equal treatment.

Now if you'll excuse me, I got a multi leg parlay to bet on. prediction market to trade options on.

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Gosh, I’m Canadian and I’m getting spammed with a bunch of Halloween Bakeshop ads. Not complaining about that again!

[u/ShooeyTheGreat → u/BalzacTheGreat]

Commercials always fucking suck but they especially suck when it’s the same 3-4 constantly being aired.

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Well, it's been great to watch online streams, depending on which feed you get, NO ADS. None at all.

[u/ABSNegativeOne → u/BalzacTheGreat]

its an ad youll be alright, breathe