Lookout Landing

Am I the only one...

…who thinks the painting in the bullpen/“Immortalized” commercial looks exactly like Jack Wilson?

HAHAHAHA

Most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen on this site.

universalguru - March 16, 2010 reply

That's who I saw.

Mike Carp.

Nevertheless...

Somehow, someway… Junior will get ahold of that painting and use it to his advantage…

JUNIOR!!!!!!!

Craig Powers - March 16, 2010 reply

Youk!

I thought the exact same thing.

joof - March 16, 2010 reply

I love the weariness in the line reading of "Of course you did."

Yeah

For someone acting in a second language, Ichiro does an amazing job. I don’t know how much coaching he had, but he gets a lot into that line. (Which is also, I think, the longest thing he’s said in any commercial to date). I like to think that’s exactly the tone he uses when he speaks to the umpire after getting called out on strikes.

And I’ve already sampled “Juuuumior!!!” to use as my system error sound. Or something — I’ve got the .wav/MP3, now I just have to find a use for it (probably not a good choice for a ring-tone, even if my phone wasn’t permanently on vibrate). Hmmm, I’ve also got the “Dude!” from that otherwise forgettable HSN commercial. Eventually I’ll have the entire set!

Ichiro did play a murderer in a Japanese crime TV show a bit ago. :-)

hiskeyd - March 16, 2010 reply

My thoughts,

Cliff Lee and Felix – Terrible
RRS – Not liking the hyphen seems out of character. The : colon shirt was nice though.
Griffey and Ichiro – This one is saved by Ichiro’s reactions.
Wak, Z and Guti – Gutierrez tossing the ball and the guy not even reacting made me laugh. Good all around, the best one of the set.
Bullpen – That picture has hilarious. If they actually keep that in the bullpen, that would raise this one to another level.

I strongly disagree with your first statement.

Griffin Cooper - March 16, 2010 reply

I agree 110%

bmxnw - March 16, 2010 reply

You know, I couldn't agree with him more. I couldn't disagree with you, I couldn't agree with you more with than the fact that

All in all, much better than the last few years

Was pretty disappointed with the Guti commercial, and the Hyphen commercial could’ve been better. The rest were pretty good, with bullpen face being the funniest.

How were you disappointed in the Guti commercial?

I thought it could've been funnier

Not that it’s bad or anything, I just had higher hopes for it.

Dammit Salty! :)

I think I’m the most disappointed by the Hyphen one.

The Hyphen commercial would've been so much better if he whipped out a goatse shirt at the end

He seems so bummed out. He had the same "They're so stupid" feel to his commercial last year.

royalcurve - March 16, 2010 via mobile reply

Underneath the charming, gregarious Austrailian exterior beats a cynicism blackened heart of living obsidian.

JAH - March 16, 2010 reply

It's like commercials are the only place where everything he communicates isn't punctuated by three exclamation points.

Mariner John - March 17, 2010 reply

It would have been funnier if Guttierez was compelled to catch everything that flew.

Birds, planes, launching sattelites. He can’t stop himself. The last cut would be him staring at the moon saying “Someday.”

JAH - March 16, 2010 reply

Agreed.

Myabe next year...

bmxnw - March 16, 2010 reply

Brilliant.

I Lick Squirrels - March 16, 2010 reply

Jack, Wak, and Guti.

Pure awesomeness.

What the hell is with Brandon Leagues’ hair? Just something weird about it.

Wilder. - March 16, 2010 reply

With everything else you noticed the hair?

I’m still fixating on the glasses, teeth & tats…

`

He's actually a normal, fairly good-looking guy

When he’s sort-of-shaved, smiling, and google-free (still got the hair, but that’s what gelled asian hair does, and I kind of like it).

But yeah, once he’s in ready-to-pitch mode, he’s full-on Mr Hyde. It’s like the inverse of one of those awkward-goose-to-swan teen movies where they take a good-looking actor/actress and mess them up with ugly glasses and frumpy clothes so that they can be transformed later into their Hollywood self.

The hair is like a painted on mullet.

I can’t figure it out.

Wilder. - March 16, 2010 reply

You'll see plenty of those pearly whites this year

Seriously I don’t think this guy knows how to close his mouth when he’s on the mound. He must eat a lot of mosquitoes during the course of a season.

shuswapslugger - March 16, 2010 reply

Mmmmmmmm......

I think it's cut zig zag like "Wild Thing" Rick Vaughn in the back, but then there are longer hairs that cover that pattern.

I could be incorrect, but that’s what it looks like to me.

SethGrandpa - March 17, 2010 reply

A lot of them seemed to be saved by the final joke.

The golfing one did nothing for me until the “I saw that,” which made me laugh.
The bullpen face and Griffey/Ichiro were my favorites.

They should use the outtakes later in the season to mix things up once people are familiar with them.

I am still hoping to see the alternate take of the old Jays ad with Roy Halladay

It was one where the child Roy is surreptitiously throwing his brussels sprouts out the kitchen window. Instead of the actress playing his mother turning around and saying ‘Good work Roy, you ate all your vegetables’ there is a version with Vernon Wells in drag doing the same line…

That's amazing.

Terminator X - March 16, 2010 reply

It apparently ran on TV at least once

According to this report.

“Vernon Wells in Drag” would be an awesome name for a punk band from, say, Mississauga.

My biggest qualm was the lack of the Mariner's Moose.

MT Olson - March 16, 2010 reply

Fuck the Moose long and hard.

I would rather it was taken out and shot instead of given sublime pleasure

Harsh.

What’s the big problem with the Moose?

MT Olson - March 16, 2010 reply

He's a rapist.

Fun story time!

One of the people that played the moose back around 2004 was fired for giving out his number to random girls (some of them underaged!). He was like 35.

How do you get that job, anyway?

Is there like an underground fraternity of mascots, and you go pro after being one in college? Or is it the job for a mime with a family or drug habit to feed, while all the other mimes decry him (silently, with gestures) for selling out his artistic integrity? And how do the Brewer’s running sausages fit into the overall pecking order?

And he failed at killing Coco Crisp

Maybe that is a bit harsh

I blame the socio-economic inequities that begat the Moose

I love this comment

A rec for you sir.

OlSalty - March 17, 2010 reply

Somewhere on USSM

There’s a thread where Derek describes the unsolicited and unwanted lapdance he got from the Moose at the Kingdome.

Unless in his shame he removed all trace of it. Which would be a shame, because it was hilarious. For the rest of us, anyway.

When I think of Colon the punctuation mark isn't the first thing to pop into my mind.

svart aske - March 16, 2010 reply

Which is why the punctuation on the shirt

Is kind of a double-twist. Only thing that saves that one, actually.

I always think of the section in the GI tract when I see his name.

svart aske - March 16, 2010 reply

So he should have held up a tee shirt that just had a *

johnbai - March 16, 2010 reply

Figgins sounds exactly like Deion Sanders

Yep...

Talk about a voice not fitting a dude’s appearance…

I would have guessed more like Avery Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLV3a4CgYLE

?

That's racial!

Loved all of them

Amazing how much more I like this team now that I don’t hate everyone on it.

Brandon League is one cool dude

He's my bullpen Felix!

He's my reliable Aardsma!

I was really expecting some sort of "League of their own" play on Brandon League.

qrsouther - March 16, 2010 reply

Alas, Silva is no longer available

To take the Rosie O’Donnell role.

wandergeist - March 17, 2010 reply

I guess this is why they make a bunch of commercials

Everybody has different tastes. I would rank them from best to worst:
Griffey-Ichiro
Felix
Guti
Hyphen
Bullpen

The ones at the top mostly because the best players (and Jack) make everything better, or conversely it’s entertaining to see them doing anything other than what they do best.

The Hyphen one was underdeveloped (and possibly there’s not enough idea there to develop, which just means they should have gone with some other idea altogether), though the other punctuation as a kicker at least rescued it from the bottom. It’s a shame because RRS has so much personality — and that accent — to work with it’s hard to believe riffing on his name (especially at this point) is the best they could up with.

The bullpen one I didn’t like at all (except maybe for the coaches at the end). They gave Aardsma an awkward line and he didn’t deliver it well, the overall idea was strange, and that picture will indeed haunt my dreams, and not in a good way. I was hoping they’d do something with their Greek helmets from last year (perhaps a full suit of armor on somebody) or something. But this just didn’t do anything for me.

But obviously some people loved it, so there you go.

King 5 thinks RRS's nickname is The Hyphen.

it is?

I believe he is just Hyphen.

no “The”.

Not unlike outside advertisers coming to the area with ads telling you to “take the I5”

"The 5"

"The 405"

I hate California

California is great

Temecula

Kermit. - March 16, 2010 reply

The Inland Empire isn't part of California

Santee.

Compared to Temecula?

Just sayin there is more than the IE that needs to be removed from Cali.

I live here and sometimes I really dislike it.

Anywhere you live you'll feel that way.

Wilder. - March 16, 2010 reply

But at the sametime there are very few things I like.

The 405 is fine for me. The 5 grates on my ears.

joof - March 16, 2010 reply

Only in California, Phoenix metro, and Ontario Canada

Corco - March 16, 2010 reply

Yup... I say "the 101" "the 202" "the 10" and so on...

Just about every freeway in Phoenix has a “the” prefix at the beginning for me.

seattlesundevil - March 17, 2010 reply

Corco-baiting

appleshampoo - March 16, 2010 reply

Does anybody remember Cal Worthington?

When he started selling cars up here with his idiot late-night commercials in the late 80s, his dealership was on Pacific Highway South somewhere near SeaTac. But doing his commercials in SoCal, he kept calling it “Pacific Coast Highway South” which I think put it in Baja

I remember Cal Worthington and his dog Spot from further back than the late 80s

He had dealerships up and down the West Coast. And yeah, Washington State geography wasn’t his strong suit.

Cal Worthington can get raped by a pack of wild tigers.

How could anyone forget Cal Worthington?

marc w - March 17, 2010 reply

Hypnosis therapy

But WHY?

He wingwalked into the 80s straight out of another place and time.

marc w - March 17, 2010 reply

I didn't care about the why. I just thought you were looking for means to forget.

Exactly.

“If you want to buy a truck, go see Cal…

Go see Cal
Go see Cal
Go see Cal!"

Yeah, I’ll go see Cal. I’ll go straight into his office and tell him to SHUT THE HELL UP!

PositivePaul - March 17, 2010 reply

The guy I can't forget is Glen Grant

His “head on backwards” ad is still a disturbing memory from my childhood.

And I would have had no idea Burien even existed if not for him. I still don’t know what’s down there other than (presumably) a car dealership.

wandergeist - March 17, 2010 reply

Cool people

I'll stand on my head to sell you a car!

msb - March 17, 2010 reply

I agree that the hyphen shirt is awesome and I want one

I've never tried this

But could you order a custom M’s jersey with the number 18 and just the hyphen character for a name?

Though a group of fans in the stands with all hyphen shirts like in the ad would be pretty awesome.

Lets make them put them on the LL store and donate the profits to charity (so we don't get into legal trouble)

Cafepress (or whoever) would still get a cut, therefore it wouldn't skirt that law.

Faux - March 16, 2010 reply

Neither the M's nor MLB

Can copyright or trademark a simple number (Intel lost a suit to AMD on this point, which is why the 586 became the Pentium). Ditto for a hyphen. As long as you steered clear of any M’s or MLB marks, you could certainly legally sell a shirt with the number 18 and a line on it. (Or skip the line, if you want to be really safe, and folks can add it themselves with electrical tape).

Actually, what I think LL should sell is just “hyphens” — short strips of tape. As someone else has suggested, folks can apply them to shirts of their own choosing.

I'm making that BullPen Face into a shirt.

Opening day I'll be wearing this for who wants to say hi.

Oh, lordy.

You are married

Jeff Sullivan - March 16, 2010 reply

Is this a statement or a question?

Perhaps it's a proposal?

I could swing that way for Jeff.

It is a miracle

Jeff Sullivan - March 16, 2010 reply

Possibly.

Is he ever!

Robert knows what the fuck is up.

Let's just say that the shirt I'll be wearing is... better...

And Kevin Martinez kicks all kinds of ass.

Apparently I am not the only one who immediately told K Martinez I'd got to Hyphen Shirt Day.

“Calls coming into the office asking if they r for sale. I’ve contacted Team Store folks. Stay tuned.”

But there were only 3 made for the commercial..

:-)

And you know the store ones will have a logo or tag or something

that differentiates them from the ‘game used’ shirts :)

(happy for you)

Doubtful.

abender20 - March 16, 2010 reply

Considering Scruffy's is horrifying, a blank white tee would be better.

Sec 108 - March 16, 2010 reply

Make two and I'll pay you money for it!

tootthekazoo - March 16, 2010 reply

If they are cheaper in bulk

I’d buy one.

And I bet the bullpen would appreciate them too :)

Thats a good idea.

I'll pitch in to help pay for these. Just keep me posted.

I would consider buying one as well

Matthew - March 16, 2010 reply

Text me to remind me tonight.

Absolutely

We could hang out by the bullpen while wearing them and creep the whole ’pen out

tootthekazoo - March 16, 2010 reply

You know, a group of people who lined up side-by-side along the bullpen fence...

…and then all removed their jackets together to reveal that shirt.
Would. Be. Awesome.

Equal parts hilarious and creepy.

Seconded!

Shit I was just going to print them myself. Transfer style.

But maybe I should figure out how to cafepress it or something.

Cafepress' quality is atrocious

Zazzle.com, however, I fully support. This isn’t an ad, either; I don’t work there or anything, I’ve just had a lot of work done through them, and they’re a very good company for one-off prints….

I'll check into that.

They have a wider selection of shirt types/colors/materials

And from my experience, the silkscreening is just better.

Same!

I want.

I want one!

I laughed at all of them

I guess the Hyphen one was the weakest of the bunch but overall I like this years bunch.

bluemax - March 16, 2010 reply

Better than recent years

Needed a Milton Bradley appearance.

I’m predicting lots of jokes playing off of “Believe Big” throughout game threads.

Matthew - March 16, 2010 reply

Too Bad TWSS is a dead meme...

Why should that stop anyone?

Poochie - March 16, 2010 reply

awwww but I liked that slogan :(

Just believe big and you can still like it Rob.

Kirk - March 16, 2010 reply

Have it put on your underwear

Brandon League has some awesome tats

"Would be funny to do the opposite commercial with Robinson Cano."

Ferguson Jenkins
Jefferson Davis

Uhh, I’m out.

Except

Anderson Cooper
Stringfellow Hawk

Airwolf?

You know someone else named Stringfellow?

Not entierely applicable, but I just saw that Edgar means "rich spear"

Wikipedia:

Edgar is a common name from Old English words ead (meaning “rich, happy, prosperous”) + gar (meaning “spear”). Literally meaning “prosperity-spear”.

Decatur - March 16, 2010 reply

Harrison Ford

And Indiana Jones, I guess (if Stringfellow Hawk opens it up to fictional characters).
Conrad Black
Heath Ledger

Sticking to ballplayers:
Edison Vasquez
Bronson Arroyo

Oh, and Brooks Orpik

Lloyd Bridges

How is Lloyd not a first name?

Nash Bridges

Matthew - March 16, 2010 reply

You could argue that any name is a first name.

Lloyd is also commonly a last name.

Greg Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd
Selwyn Lloyd

Those are guys with two first names.

Llewdor - March 17, 2010 reply

Edison Vasquez?

Dewey N - March 16, 2010 reply

Volquez

And it’s “Edinson”

Conrad and Heath are both first names.

Nice try though.

Kirk - March 16, 2010 reply

But they're also last names

And more commonly so. At least, I’ve encountered both as last names in real life, whereas they seem to only be first names on celebs and their children (in the case of “Conrad” it seems to be particular to moguls. Conrad Hilton for another)

Anyone with the last name Conrad is a giant cocksucker.

Listen to this man!

Needs more Boutros Boutros

Nelson Cruz

Milton Bradley
CoCo Crisp
Nolan Reimold
Clayton Kershaw
Gordon Beckham
Hanley Ramirez
Grady Sizemore
Robinson Carusoe
Franklin Gutierrez
Ichiro Suzuki

blueside714 - March 16, 2010 reply

.

I've always loved that one.

Definitely one of my faves...

The Typical Idiot Fan - March 17, 2010 reply

Sterling Hitchcock

Steve Nelson - March 16, 2010 reply

Clayton and Gordon as first names. Ichiro is just a different language, so no.

abender20 - March 16, 2010 reply

Buzz Killington...

blueside714 - March 16, 2010 reply

Ichiro is also not a family name.

It’s not uncommon for Japanese families to name their kids with something numerical to indicate their birth order. I don’t know if that’s the case for the Suzuki family, but “ichi” does mean 1, so yeah.

No, he is the second son.

I used to wonder why they would have named the second son First Son…. but recently someone (on that bastion of accuracy Wikipedia) noted "The Japanese name “Ichiro” is often written 一郎, meaning “first son”. Ichiro’s name, however, is written with a different character, 一朗, so that his name roughly means “brightest, most cheerful”."

msb - March 17, 2010 reply

So I suppose Ichiro hasn't been living up to his name.

At least not until this past season.

JonBBT - March 17, 2010 reply

WILSON VALDEZ.

JY - March 16, 2010 reply

Buck O'neil

Although his real first name is John.

Milendriel - March 16, 2010 reply

Also

Anderson Hernandez

PShwa - March 16, 2010 reply

so soon we forget

Puchy Delgado (so soon you all forget)
Odell Jones
Darnell Coles

Steve Nelson - March 17, 2010 reply

Another variation is guys who have a last name first and first name last

such as Gorman Thomas.

Steve Nelson - March 17, 2010 reply

Well, they're all better than Evan Longoria

Damnit, if that was the last out of a perfect game, that would mean Longoria was batting ninth. Really guys?

calim - March 16, 2010 reply

Pinch hitting!

Longoria got the day off. Explains why he would be 0-2 in his previous AB as well.

dkulich - March 16, 2010 reply

This is the biggest reason why I don't like that commercial, beyond Longo having to be a douche.

Mauer does pretty good in the Show commercial, at least!

BrettJMiller - March 17, 2010 reply

I'm just sick of seeing it every 30 seconds

Hey, Sony, have a look under your corporate seat cushions and find some money to hire at least a couple of other spokesmodels.

Or, heck, you’re already most of the way there — just have the animated player models do the ads, too.

wandergeist - March 17, 2010 reply

This annoyed me as well.

But I don’t think the game would sell quite as well with Kapler or Navarro on the cover. Nor would it have the same pizazz if he broke up the perfecto in the 8th.

But still, dumb.

JonBBT - March 17, 2010 reply

"Why did that guy make a shirt for Bartolo Colon? He clearly works for the Mariners. Do we have a spy in our midst? The shirt is red, but Colon hasn't pitched for a red team since 2008. Wouldn't RRS have seen this shirt already? So many questions."

He’s in advertising, they go with the guy what pay them.

I assumed RRS was crabby because he remembered the fiasco of Austria Night.

And I want a hyphen shirt.

Yeah, the RRS commercial definitely needs to be taken with that context

And if you remember Austria Night

That makes this one way better than some of the others. Right there with Ichiro saying “Of course you did.”

I don't remember the Austria night fiasco

Can you folks recap?

appleshampoo - March 16, 2010 reply

Odd. Can't find the archived ones.

Brief recap – the same ad guy comes up with this great promotion for RRS – Austria night, complete with polka, lederhosen, beer, funny hats, etc. Which is funny, cause he’s from Australia… yeah, ok you had to have seen it.

Ahh

I past commercial. For some reason I was envisioning an actual screw-up at a game involving Austria/Australia, which would be pretty awful. 10-4.

appleshampoo - March 16, 2010 reply

True story

In the days before the web I called directory assistance in Vancouver BC to get the number for the Australian consulate. They gave me the number for the Austrian Consulate (who knew there even was one of those in Vancouver?) So I called the provided number and had a long and confusing conversation with the (accent-free) receptionist before she realized what I had done — and even when I explained it wasn’t my mistake I could tell she thought this was either a prank or I was an idiot, or both.

The guy has a lot of Mariner paraphernalia in his office, so it looks like he is more of an in-house kind of a guy.

Is he the "Winn Winn Situation" guy?

It's not the same guy.

2003 commercials

I guess the Winn Winn guy got old and retired

Or just was fired for not being smarmy enough.

Though I don’t really see any M’s-specific stuff in his office, so maybe he was supposed to be an outside consultant.

Though if the hyphen guy is an M’s guy, what was he doing working on colon?
So many questions….

This guy specialized in nick names. Their window says, Judson and Sons Nickname Consultants.

The character in other commercial could have worked for another team before the Mariners.

Two Rs and Two Ls - March 16, 2010 reply

The M's guy has been around since at least 1999

he was in the “Lenny the Latte” ad.

Yup

He introduced Lenny in the Moose’s dream, and also tried to promote the failed “Jamie Moyer history of baseball” ad. He excels at smarm.

Looks like Joe Pa.

abender20 - March 16, 2010 reply

(The character, not the actual person)

How does Jose Vidro hit well from both sides of the plate?

Haven't lived in Washington for years...

…so the pre-season commercial release is about the only chance I get to see them, and this group is pretty good.

I love that the Manager and GM are featured so prominently, as if they are a part of what makes the fans, fans. What would have been the reaction to a commercial featuring Bavasi? Those two are the face of the franchise over the last year as much as any player is, and that can’t be anything but good for the team going forward.

AnotherAaron - March 16, 2010 reply

Bavasi was in a 2008 commercial

Here’s the USSM thread on it.

It was confirmed that the commercial was a dig at the blogosphere.

Two Rs and Two Ls - March 16, 2010 reply

Pat Gillick was also in an ad with Bret Boone once.

Imperfect though it is...

The Gutierrez commercial seems like the yin to the Bavasi/Vidro commercial’s yang for the M’s blog-o-sphere fans. While the Hyphen commercial is my sentimental favorite, the Gutz one takes the cake for me. Junior/Ichiro’s is classic and epic and will appeal to the masses. But I like the subtlety of the Gutz commercial.

With Z in charge

Even the commercials got better

There's nothing he can't turn around.

Immortalized is the best.

The others were good but the sheer ridiculousness of that one puts it over the top.

Love the Griffey/Ichiro one, it reminds me of "Major League" for some reason.

sanford_and_son - March 16, 2010 reply

Best line and delivery

Z: “I saw that”.

Close second:

Ichiro: “Of course you did”.

Paul AB - March 16, 2010 reply

Yeah, that line put that commercial over the top for me

These are definitely better than most of the Bavasi era commercials.

seattle_since_81 - March 16, 2010 reply

The resigned look on Ichiro's face really sells that line

Kermit. - March 16, 2010 reply

My favorites:

1) Ichiro/Griffey. Ichiro does a great job on this one, ‘of course you did’, and ‘JUNIOR!!!!!!’
Loved this one.

2) JackZ/Wak/Guti. Was nice to see the GM in one. Was predictable but I still like it.

3) Bullpen. The portrait is really freaky.

4) Cliff Lee/Felix/Figgins. I dont really get it. Yeah He has two names that are often first names. Meh.

5) RRS. I wish they had done something other than RRS not liking the hyphen shirt. Out of character for RRS.

ARock - March 16, 2010 reply

I've got it!

Amazing!

EnglishMariner - March 16, 2010 reply

Brilliant!

Somebody needs to do this

In person. For real. From those seats, or comparable.

And hold it up or every pitcher in the bullpen.

Bonus points if you can dance like Red, or are otherwise as visually distinctive.

Hmmm

The first three I really like

Liked Figgins laying it on thick, liked the subtlety of Z’s acting, laughed out loud at “JUNIOOOOOOR”.

RRS was okay but they might have done more with it, but I guess that many of us were already ‘in’ on the Hyphen moniker and so from then on it wasn’t going to get funnier.

Didn’t like the painting one much.

MarkE - March 16, 2010 reply

Plain White T-Shirt + blue tape = instant Hyphen shirt

I would have to say that all of them were pretty good except

I thought the Hyphen one was pretty lame. I laughed out loud to all of the other ones, and the Felix/Lee/Figgins one was really funny.

Compared to the commercials the last few years which were fucking terrible, these ones are awesome.

Zwakamatsu - March 16, 2010 reply

I loved the bullpen one simply for Lowe's reactions.

I don’t know what it is exactly, but him saying “That is so true” was the only time I laughed out loud watching these. I suppose it’s because that’s how I picture him being in real life.

The Hyphen one was dumb. The golf one could have been a little better. The ending joke definitely saved it.

How dumb did Gutierrez feel running around a fairway catching golf balls?

Also

Ichiro yelling was awesome for some reason. I couldn’t picture him shouting until now.

And I really hope that painting is hung up in the bullpen somewhere.

The golf one just didn't have an actual joke to it, other than the throwaway line at the end.

When you saw Wak line up his shot, you knew exactly what would happen. I was waiting for more. The rest of them had punchlines, at least.

I think the Gootch one would have been a bit better if it followed the model of the old Boone "Bat-Flip" commercial

Where he just can’t help but catch everything. So, Wak and Z are golfing. As soon as Wak tees off, have Gootch come running out of nowhere to make the catch and making Wak and Z mad because they can never get in a game of golf.

tootthekazoo - March 16, 2010 reply

Catch a baby. Catching babies is always funny.

Kermit. - March 16, 2010 reply

And just imagine how funny the blooper reel would be for that

OlSalty - March 17, 2010 via mobile reply

Or if they had set up the fact that he has great range better.

I think that is what’s missing. There is no real set up for why he is catching the golf ball besides the fact that he catches everything. Maybe they could have had a foursome of Jack, Wak, Griffey, and Guti, and then when Wak hits the ball, Guti takes off after it and catches it. If they used Griffey, Jack or Wak could’ve played off the fact that Guti looks like a young Griffey or something like that. If we had no reference for who it was, I think the commercial would’ve been a bit better. We already knew they were going to be highlighting Guti in it, so I think we all expected more. I still like it for the ending, though.

seattle_since_81 - March 17, 2010 reply

I guess my expectations were just really low.

I liked all of them

Because this crop was so much better than last year’s. Five thumbs up, fo’ rizzle.

Your Guti/Lee ad idea was really good.

Just one edit from the Jack/Wak/Guti ad.

Jack Z needed to say “Well at the end of the day that is why we traded for him.”

As a whole this might be the best set in a couple of years or more.

mark sobba - March 16, 2010 reply

I like how it is in the ad, because it sounds more like how he would talk in real life rather than to the media.

The hyphen on the shirt is too long.

That’s an em dash, dammit.

Is this better?

It’s mine…

Slightly better. Still too long!

I thought I told you to trim those sideburns, err length!

Go home, you’re off the blog, for good!

Hahahaha!

Must be using the Impact font.

I think they were trying to avoid it looking like a minus sign.

Too small (and without any context) and it's going to look like a dot from a distance.

I always imagined just putting the word "Hyphen" on a jersey

CKel - March 16, 2010 reply

Someone already has

it turns out

White-out aside, perfect. A rec for you.

I love the Felix/Lee commercial

Felix just looks like the annoying little kid who follows you around, and I’m not ashamed to say his voice sounds really cute.

CKel - March 16, 2010 reply

I think it was Divish that compared it to Bubba in Forrest Gump rattling off shrimp dishes.

Thinking of that, it makes it even funnier to me.

Hahaha yes!

royalcurve - March 16, 2010 via mobile reply

Agh...why the hell aren't these playing?

I have Adobe flash. Stop toying with me MLB.com. Play the damn ads.

SethGrandpa - March 16, 2010 reply

Do you have any adblocking on your browser? That might be the problem.

Yeah, I had to disable it to get the vids to play.

Eyeball Kid - March 16, 2010 reply

I just opened IE, which I never use, so it has no ad-block

MLB.com does not like Firefox.

I used IE to watch these commercials.

I had no problem watching them in Firefox.

My experience is a couple of years old.

Since then, I’ve always used IE to view MLB.com.

I've always had problems as well. It doesn't like nexdef either. I used Chrome for all my mlb related surfing.

Goose - March 17, 2010 reply

Safari for me.

Wilder. - March 17, 2010 reply

Poll results so far,

Now I just feel bad for Ryan

Jeff Sullivan - March 16, 2010 reply

I voted his just for that reason.

Ryan feels bad for Ryan.

I think the fact that so many people want the shirt redeems the fact that the commercial wasn't very good

Anyone else having trouble getting the videos to play?

I hit play, and then it just goes to a black screen and never starts playing. Am I doing something wrong/stupid?

marcello - March 16, 2010 reply

Ad Block

Turn it off. I had the same issue.

SethGrandpa - March 16, 2010 reply

Thanks!

marcello - March 16, 2010 reply

I really want a Hyphen shirt.

SethGrandpa - March 16, 2010 reply

Should Ichiro have yelled George instead of Junior?

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILSOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Slurvey - March 16, 2010 reply

Too bad "Castaway" was so long ago

You could certainly do something with losing volleyballs overboard and not worrying about it because the team has so many backup Wilsons…

Two Rs and Two Ls - March 16, 2010 reply

I would have loved it.

Does anyone else think Ichiro screams like

Eli Wallach at the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly when Wallach screams Blondie!!

Jed MC - March 16, 2010 reply

Did not make that connection

Though now that you mention it, Ichiro has a bit of that Eastwood whisper. One can imagine an opposing team’s reliever coming in to face Ichiro, who mutters “Do you feel lucky, punk?”