Good morning and welcome to episode 753 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball

perspective brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller along with

Ben Lemberg of Grantland. Hi Ben. Hi. How you doing? I'm alright. Got any hot takes on the

World Series commercials of this year yet? Not really. No. I missed the Viagra ads last night.

It was strange to see baseball and not see those. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the genius of a World Series ad

doesn't usually reveal itself until a few days in when you've seen it a million times and more

to the point when everybody has made their jokes about it and you couldn't possibly hate the ad

more than you do as a joke generating machine. Yeah. You saw the Chobani one? Yeah the one where

the guy's playing guitar in the dugout. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which already I've always pronounced it

Chobani and so I'm already learned I mean it worked. I guess. Yeah. But this is to me this is the one

this is the closest thing to the Microsoft tablet the once-as-e-all-regans lefties thing where

most most I mean everybody tries to not everybody but as we've talked about it's very common for

advertisers to try to get a baseball element into their ad and most are content to simply

have a pun or to use a baseball term a superlative baseball term or a celebratory baseball term

the most kind of obvious one being hit a home run or it's a home run. Not going to the park.

Not going to the park. Right things like that and that's like some some guy like crosses that

off the list like there's like a to-do list there like you got to say the name of the company three

times you got to have a baseball reference you've got to get the thing to the broadcast networks

and that's pretty much your job and so they cross off baseball reference and they're done. But then

make sure the generator doesn't explode so that you don't get to see your ad. Yeah yeah and that's

true yeah so I don't know if they put that on the list. No, I'm sure. Going forward they will.

All right so but everyone's know how there's a company that tries to really capture the sport

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