r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 11h ago

Players Only Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

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.

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u/JonnyActsImmature Chicago Cubs 11h ago

I thought this was pearl clutching until I saw the ad. Is that really on tv?

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u/ZeroCodingXP 11h ago

Yes.

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u/JonnyActsImmature Chicago Cubs 11h ago

Child me used to have to wait until 2:30 am when the GGW infomercials came on to see that kinda content

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u/ZeroCodingXP 11h ago

::Cue the steel drum track::

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u/VaudevilleDada Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

WARNING!

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u/RogueModron Milwaukee Brewers 9h ago

I'm getting a nostalgia boner just from this

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u/throwahuey1 3h ago

The seaweed is always greener!

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u/BrettHullsBurner St. Louis Cardinals 11h ago

That's honestly pretty crazy. I couldn't care less about the ad itself (yeah she's hot and the betting company got exactly what they wanted out of it) but airing it on tv seems a bridge too far. Youtube ads when the user is 18+? Sure. And I feel the same way about horror movie commercials. I'm trying to watch the game with my kid and some nightmare fuel comes up on screen for them to see? Thanks a lot for that!

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u/Reevoo12 9h ago

Yeah the nightmare fuel also sucks. I don't know, at least for me they are shooting themselves in the foot. I'm over having to micromanage commercial break time trying to encourage my kid's interest in baseball. Probably just go back to TV off or Leo on Netflix for the 800th time.

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u/Narcoleptic_247 Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

It's not anymore lewd that other ads using mostly naked women.

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u/JonnyActsImmature Chicago Cubs 9h ago

What other ads on television right now are comparable?

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u/dst_corgi Los Angeles Dodgers 11h ago

Yeah, I don’t particularly love Call, but I agree with him on this. I do think it’s outrageous to run this on a family event.

And before people “what about” me, I fucking hate gambling ads too. All of it is gross to shove in the faces of kids trying to watch a baseball game.

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u/fuckdirectv San Diego Padres 11h ago

Every commercial break.

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u/Supplycrate New York Mets 9h ago

I never thought I'd become a pearl-clutcher, but when I saw the ad I was very fucking surprised it was on tv. I mean that shot with her sitting on the basketball hoop, come on man.

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u/JonnyActsImmature Chicago Cubs 8h ago

I know. I had to rewatch it at least 69 times to see if it was real.

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u/ohkaycue Florida Marlins 10h ago

Your having people say yah but am I the only one to NOT get it? Maybe because I'm streaming through apps (either hulu, foxone, or hbo) and it's only on TV?

I've gotten all the other dumb commercials being talked about like the Megan Fox looking like a concked-out sexbot though

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 5h ago

I can confirm it's aired for me in NJ on HBO Max.

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u/Slipstream_Surfing New York Mets 5h ago

Is also my experience in same locale with trial subscription to youtube tv.

Have barely seen any commercials though because of a pathological aversion to ads and willingness to FF through everything including between pitches and outs. 

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u/zamend229 New York Yankees 8h ago

Yeah they show a shorter version (probably 30s?) almost every ad break. I really hope they sort this stuff out before I have kids watching with me. Idk what parents are supposed to do besides just not watch the games?

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 5h ago

It doesn't have that shot from below of her sitting on the basketball hoop (or at least, I hadn't seen that before this article) which feels the most egregious, but yeah it's mostly what you see here.

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u/doubletaketwice Boston Red Sox 8h ago

Not exactly. The ad in the article is not the one shown on TV. The TV version is less explicit.