open letter to mlb.com: give up on Dick's

by Billy Almon on May 21, 2007 6:26 AM PDT

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.

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Dick's....

We see the same ad in Austin, Texas. I didn't really expect to see someone in Padre gear in that spot...but a dude sporting a Rockies jersey?? Are you kidding me?

by Drama on May 21, 2007 7:50 AM PDT reply actions

choices

Some strange choices were made in that ad.

I wonder how long will it take mlb.com to start selling the between innings more fully than the old Tom Petty promotion? They're sitting on some revenue there.

by Billy Almon on May 21, 2007 9:52 AM PDT reply actions

Which Tom Petty song?

by jbox on May 21, 2007 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Tom Petty song...

"Saving Grace" from his CD "Highway Companion". They played it almost every commercial break on MLB.TV last season.

by Drama on May 21, 2007 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions

at least the pacman is gone

i hated the pacman. the pong is much better. but i was hoping each month they would switch it up and maybe wed get astroids or some other classic game.

the dicks commercial is better than the old spice commercial with the deer that they played in the begginign of the season, that was just annoying.

but they should make thier own adds in between, or something more entertaining at least

threepeat?(never thought id be able to say that about the padres!)

by Peavyforprez08 on May 21, 2007 5:54 PM PDT reply actions