These new MLB ads are hilarious! Too bad Bud Selig ain't laughing...
One of the new Got Milk ads...
Poking fun at the sport's steroid scandal, the television ad for the California Milk Processor Board talks about a player getting pulled from a game "after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance."
In the next scene, a coach pulls a carton of milk from the slugger's locker.
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There is nothing humorous about steroid abuse," said Tim Brosnan, executive vice president for business for baseball. "
I would think that the California Milk Processor Board and their advertising agency would know better regarding an issue that threatens America's youth."
The San Francisco ad agency that created the ads says they were meant to deliver the message that "
milk is good for you, that milk actually does many of the things that people hope those wonder drugs might do for them and does so naturally."
Here are the ads...all five of them, courtesy of Goodby, Silverstein and Partners and GotMilk.com:
Ad #1:
CaughtAd #2:
Batting PracticeAd #3:
TabloidAd #4:
Never PouredAd #5:
ManagerMy opinion - if you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at? Get a sense of humor, MLB. Yuck it up. It does a body good.
PJ
