You came here through Google.

You read a thread where 50 people posted about not liking, in general, this year’s ads, but where many people posted about how much they liked past years.

You assumed that in previous years, people had complained about the ads, though you can clearly see that people liked them.

Your question wasn’t rhetorical. You asked specifically how long we’d been around while getting around to your crack about how everyone’s constantly complaining, though you’ve got no evidence of that or –

I don’t understand how you got from the thread’s “this year’s ads are pretty bad, boy, the old ads were good” to having such a low opinion.

i have only google to thank for my knowledge of this website. i have not the desire, time or patience to search, scroll or click through this site in the quest for a history of what else has been discussed, accomplished or covered here.

my comments were made upon reading over 50 posts by, i assume, “regulars” to this forum. my questions were rhetorical. and you know what? your description of the forum as a ‘looped chorus of complaints’, with a few exceptions, hits the nail squarely on the head.

oops! your 15 minutes is up. visited history erased.

But these one’s aren’t THAT bad. Maybe it’s the idea that the concept is so different this time around? Or that the players are put in the completely unreal situation of trying to ‘sell’ baseball? Or that we don’t want to see players in an environment outside of what they’re paid millions to do? Or maybe we, the fans, are having a tough time seeing all the M’s stalwarts move on to other pastures?

The Mariners are unusual in the league, and probably in the sporting world in general, in that they put so much thought and effort behind their TV advertisement. It seems that sports franchises have no interest in promoting their teams other than huge billboards with logos & players’ faces (which they usually pay for by putting a NIKE logo on it), or just advertising when the next game will be televised. To me, it’s refreshing to see the M’s marketing folks & executives continuing to push the envelope year after year with their TV campaigns.

That said, I’m curious about next year’s commercials — will they try another new concept or will they return to the concept that worked so well for so many years… now THAT is a good idea for a blog thread (IMHO of course).

You’re totally unaware of the history of the site and unwilling to look for answers, and yet willing to dismiss everyone’s opinion as some kind of looped chorus of complaints.

Nice.

was this forum here last year? and the year before? i’m betting the commercial reviews were just as negative and that everyone bemoaned the travesty of how much better the spots were the year before.

etc etc etc, blah blah blah.

At times I even felt like the commercials were equalling the viewers with the supposed studio audience…. “We said a funny line. Hear the audience laugh? You’re supposed to too!” Perhaps that’s why I found the only spots that went outside of the studio setting amusing: the Olivo tag, the Hargrove video, the bullpen phone ringing, and Buhner’s cameo even. There might’ve also been a few countable lines that were quite funny (Ichiro: I hit singles in mine — all the time!), but they were offset by the lifeless atmosphere the rest of the way. Overall, the QVC theme was truly a bad idea, and that alone was enough to make the commercials terrible.

One can say we’ve been spoiled by the higher quality commercials the M’s offered in the past, but even without making comparisons, this year’s commercials were bad in their own right.

Personally, I love Sexson’s delivery in “The Long Ball.” It reminds me of some overrelaxed, jolly weatherman. Especially when he says “Now this next item is a real crowd-pleaser” and “Pokey, the stolen base is in the next hour…this is the long ball.” And then the long panout angle when Pokey mumbles “oops.” Hahaha.

And Ichiro saying “I hit singles in mine, all the time” and Raul saying “oh yes you do, Ichiro, yes you do.” Hahaha.

For my money, the all-time classic remains “I took my geoduck to Puyallup…”