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/myassholealt New York Mets 8h ago

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.

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u/sculltt Cincinnati Reds 6h ago

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.)

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u/myassholealt New York Mets 6h ago

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.