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 10h 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?