Nice job with the seeds
There has been some discussion on this blog from readers about the Wild Things' lack of advertising outside of Washington. The best piece of advertising the Wild Things ever did was a series of television commercials back in either 2002 or 2003 (can't remember which). These commercials were eye-catching, funny and put the Wild Things brand in homes throughout the tri-state area for 30 seconds. There were at least two commercials. If there was a third, I've forgotten what it was about and been unable to find it. Maybe somebody can let me know how many commercials were made.
Many of you remember these commercials, which are still floating around on YouTube. For those who are newcomers to this blog, here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrb6Fp7Ob0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XQu23YwXI
Many of you remember these commercials, which are still floating around on YouTube. For those who are newcomers to this blog, here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrb6Fp7Ob0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XQu23YwXI
posted by Chris Dugan at
9:51 AM
3 Comments:
I know there was a third one where the player (in uniform) went into a coin operated laundry, looked around and put his clothers in a machine that was already washing or drying other peoples clothes.
This is one of my points exactly. These commercials would appear during Pirates games. I lived well over an hour away at the time, and it was these commercials that aroused my interest. A few years later, a little supermarket in my town even had their pocket schedules available. And NOTHING promoted the team better than televising 3 games or so per year.
Back then, the Pirates were painful to watch and the farm system was a disaster. Now, they have the best record in MLB, with more hot prospects coming soon. People have waited 20 years for this, it's hurting the Wild Things.
But nothing is hurting the franchise more than increasing prices across the board. That was just flat out stupid and somebody needs to walk the plank for that.
Chris, what is the current salary cap for a Frontier League team, for a season? The last I had heard, it was $72,000. You can't tell me this team wasn't profitable before the increases. Not with 48 home dates a season, with a packed house on the weekends. Even the changing of uniforms smacked of greed. Why change from the original colors, to sucker the fans to buy new shirts of the new colors?
By the way, I've been meaning to give credit where it's due, from a few posts back:
"More manure was slung by two individuals, Mr. Williams and Mr. Zavacky, than a fifty tentacled octopus could throw."
That's quite possibly the funniest, relevant comment ever made on this blog, it was by Ima Fraid.
As far as I know, the salary cap for a Frontier League team is $72,000.
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