Get Me Out To The Baaall Game

Here’s something to read/watch to keep you sane on your nine-hour layover.

So who’s sick of the MLB blackout policy? Probably only a select group of you. Most of said group is probably located in Iowa, Western Illinois, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or Arkansas. These areas have the most blacked out teams. Take Arkansas and Oklahoma, residents can’t watch games from the Cardinals, Royals, Houston, or Texas. Now if one of those teams have a local network deal, they would have the ability to watch that team. Then you have Iowa, residents here are blacked out from the Twins, Brewers, Cubs, White Sox, Royals, and Cardinals. What does the MLB expect… they want to force Iowans to drive 5-6 hours in any direction to watch a live baseball game? Ridiculous. At least residents can watch the Cubs in their ‘rebuilding’ years on WGN.

One plus (if it can be called that) to being stuck in an area with multiple markets, you get the opportunity to watch the marketing departments duke it out in advertising. It seems obvious that the best marketing departments are these teams in the multiple team markets. Take a look below at some of the Kings of Cork favorites from the 2012 campaign (I think the Cardinals not only won the World Series, but their Marketing Department mopped the floors with the rest of baseball’s marketing).

• Cardinals – The confetti is in every nook and cranny… I bet Freese is still cleaning out is jockstrap. Here is a link to the rest of the Cardinal commercials.
• Brewers – Celebrating two MVP’s in the state of Wisconsin. Here is a link to the rest of the Brewer commercials.
• Athletics – Coco Crisp shakes some weights. Here is a link to the rest of the A’s commercials.
• Twins – The Big HRbowski is called in for relief. Their other commercials take second in 2012. Hey, their fans need something to cheer for.
• Cubs – Not an actual Cubs commercial but still hilarious to watch a Cubs playoff beard get cut.
• White Sox – The South Sider’s rebuttal to MLB The Show’12 commercial. And a link to their actual commercials.
• Royals – This IS Eric Hosmer’s time.
• Mariners – Smoak yells Tiiiimmmmberrrr!! Here is a link to the rest of the Mariners commercials.
• Rockies – They receive third place in the 2012 marketing campaign with their Fantasy Fan Draft: (Link to the rest of the Rockie commercials)

Those aren’t all of the 2012 MLB commercials but IMO, they are some of the best. But if you disagree, link me to some of the others (from 2012) that you believe should be on this list. We will gladly add them to the list.