Long distance Padres fans are familiar with mlb.com's weird pacman and pong like screensaver graphics between innings this year.  It was much better in the early days when they let the stadium cameras roll, and Mark Grant and the cameramen could be heard trawling the crowds for women.

Now, they still have the pong between innings, but everytime you log on to mlb.com there is a really obnoxious Dick's Sporting Goods ad.  It features mostly fat and unshaven white guys wearing team gear and cheering for their teams.  One guy shoves a hot dog into his mouth and yells - "Never give up!"  or something like that with his mouth full of hot dog.  Then another guy in a redsox jersey follows up with "nevah evah give up!"  

Maybe this is an east coast feed - and they have other ads in the West?  Last year they played the same few bars from a new Tom Petty song over and over again between every inning.  I love that song now.

I admit I still like the pong screensaver.  It calms me.  But Dick's ad doesn't jive with baseball.  Give up on Dick's.