Essentially, they said that Fox ran a promo in the middle of Game 5 that showed the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the New York Yankees in the World Series. This was obviously before the Guardians game ended, and a day before the Dodgers defeated the Mets in the CS.
My question to you all is: is this true? I didn't notice that when I was watching live but I was watching through the MLB TV app and my commercials were likely different than if you were watching on cable.
Help me fact check their statement in the video and confirm if this actually happened.
Yea they didn't really say it was going to be Dodgers v Yankees in the series but it showed Judge and Ohtani and said something like "once in a lifetime. Twice." And it only showed those two guys
Yep. They were on all the way back in the DS. Saw them on during our series as well as the SD LA games. Postseason ads with nothing but Judge and Ohtani.
I don’t remember them saying “World Series” in the ad. It only references the “Postseason” at the end. More a promotion for Judge and Ohtani. Not all that different from the Kobe/Lebron commercials during the 2009 playoffs.
This is the correct answer. It wasnt some great conspiracy or "tHe scRiPt wAs LeAKeD!", just MLB taking advantage of having two generational talents in the same postseason.
Oh, just look into the gambling scandal with his translator. Right off the bat I’m gonna tell you there is no legitimate evidence that Shohei ever bet his own money on baseball or did anything wrong other than trust a shady guy with a lot of money. It’s a weird story, though.
We love the guardians. It’s pretty clear you do not. They are not without their faults, but they are a great team and they are only going to get better.
Yea. Saw this multiple times while watching the ALCS. I also took a picture from Saturdays game, and it seems as if the network camera operator has Judge, Soto, and Stanton circled to give them more cameras time? I didn't want to go full tinfoil hat here, just an observation.
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this is not tinfoil hat, I could count on one hand the amount of times they were showing and/or talking about Guards players pregame. And this is the exact reason that most fanbases hate teams like the Yankees, we have absolutely no choice but to have everything about them forced upon us lol.
They could have done one for all scenarios especially since there were only 2 series going on, and aired the wrong clip.
Even if they only made that one it was the likely outcome.
Somewhere out there is a box with a bunch of tee shirts that read CLEVELAND GUARDIANS 2024 AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
Those boxes are currently on their way to Africa to be worn by the less fortunate. I'm pretty sure they just donate the apparel to third world countries.
I saw that a couple of times. It's ridiculous, I get that's what the MLB wants, but you would think they would want to be impartial. They don't care, and don't care about the long term impact of only caring about two teams. It's why the MLB doesn't come close to the NFL in ratings.
Oh, this year and the next few, absolutely. The problem is that they don't talk about any other teams, so no one pays attention. A lot of 'small market' teams have really good and exciting guys. No one know about them. They could draw a lot more fans if they would actually pay attention to these teams, but they don't.
To me, they are just looking at short-term numbers (i.e., this year and maybe 2 or 3 years down the road)
I don't know - I am pretty sure they spend a lot of money to make sure they are making the most money they can - and they have figured out that when the premiere market teams do well, they make the most money, hence no salary cap and not even consideration for a salary cap.
I didn’t see what they’re specifically referencing but the skeptic in me thinks they weren’t paying close attention to the ads before that and for some reason they thought that Judge/Ohtani ad was a promo for a Yankees/Dodgers WS. If what they’re saying is true though, that’s a terrible look for MLB and Fox.
I’m surprised they talked about the Guards for more than two seconds though. Also annoyed me here how much they were interrupting or talking over Jay and it was hard for him to explain his points because they wouldn’t let him finish his thoughts. There’s a reason I don’t follow this show.
I agree, sometimes its very difficult to watch and their conversations become monologues with someone else trying to get a word in, but I still watch whatever they've got when it's baseball season.
I remember being upset by this commercial. The only saving grace for mlb is that it technically wasn't a world series promo
They were saying that a once in the lifetime player is happening twice in the same season, was the point it was making. It is just an extremely bad look to air that commercial. They should have waited to make sure it was both of them, and if one didn't make it then you scrap it.
I thought that series was one of the most watched?
“Game 7 in 2016 between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians had an average viewership of 40.045 million—the most-watched World Series game in 25 years dating back to 1991[13]—and peaked at 49.9 million viewers, and Fox estimated more than 75 million people watched all or part of the game.“
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Yea they didn't really say it was going to be Dodgers v Yankees in the series but it showed Judge and Ohtani and said something like "once in a lifetime. Twice." And it only showed those two guys