Fans today wouldn’t know how to process all the advertisements, the quick pace of play, and the constant relocation and expansion of yesterday’s MLB 😱
Counterpoint: at least they’re not giant animated video boards
TIL that Ballantine’s wasn’t a Frasier thing.
Vintage advertisement was indeed superior
Stadium ads are fine. Now that MLB is putting ads on their sleeves & and helmets, it’s getting to be too much.
Soon, it’ll start looking like MLS. I swear the untrained soccer fan can’t tell which team is which. The sponsor logo takes up the entire front of the shirt. The team logo is a small logo over the heart. I should know at a quick glance what the team’s name or city is, not what corporation paid the most.
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There were no ads in the 70s and 80s. It’s all cyclical
I love the photo of the old Fenway monster with the grassy bank!
they were far less obtrusive before. they fit into the aesthetic, didn’t dominate it.
I think it stopped happening but there were so many times last season where the ball would literally disappear into a digital advertisement right before it crossed the plate.
Outfields used to have hills? That’s wild.
Back in the Sportsmans Park days they’d celebrate a Redbird homerun by flashing a giant Budweiser advertisement outside the stadium. The neon sign is actually still there on the side of I-64
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Fans today wouldn’t know how to process all the advertisements, the quick pace of play, and the constant relocation and expansion of yesterday’s MLB 😱
Counterpoint: at least they’re not giant animated video boards
TIL that Ballantine’s wasn’t a Frasier thing.
Vintage advertisement was indeed superior
Stadium ads are fine. Now that MLB is putting ads on their sleeves & and helmets, it’s getting to be too much.
Soon, it’ll start looking like MLS. I swear the untrained soccer fan can’t tell which team is which. The sponsor logo takes up the entire front of the shirt. The team logo is a small logo over the heart. I should know at a quick glance what the team’s name or city is, not what corporation paid the most.
Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.
There were no ads in the 70s and 80s. It’s all cyclical
I love the photo of the old Fenway monster with the grassy bank!
they were far less obtrusive before. they fit into the aesthetic, didn’t dominate it.
I think it stopped happening but there were so many times last season where the ball would literally disappear into a digital advertisement right before it crossed the plate.
Outfields used to have hills? That’s wild.
Back in the Sportsmans Park days they’d celebrate a Redbird homerun by flashing a giant Budweiser advertisement outside the stadium. The neon sign is actually still there on the side of I-64