The baseball season is coming. So on TV they're starting to show commercials about getting out to the park or buying season tickets or whatever. I saw one last night that sort of confused the hell out of me.
It's got Oakland A's pitcher Dave Stewart on the mound getting ready to pitch to some guy. There's a close-up on his face - and he looks mean. I'm serious. You may not think pitchers look intimidating, but I'm convinced Dave Stewart could stare you down so hard, you'd be making trail mix in your underwear. Anyway, the footage is obviously from some old game because you see and hear the crowd as he gets ready to wind up.
So, cut to the edited-in footage of a guy at the plate. It's just some regular dude pretending to be waiting for the pitch. There's a really tight close-up on this guy because they don't want you to see the throngs of empty seats behind him. BUT, you do hear crowd noise nonetheless.
The commercial keeps cutting back between the Stewart stock footage and the dude at bat. After Stewart pitches and the guy pretends to strike out, you see Stewart jump up and down while the crowd cheers. Then I realize the guy at bat was wearing an A's hat. Wait, so Dave Stewart was staring down and striking out one of his own fans? And people are cheering this?
Even if this was a fantasy, why would the fan want to be struck out by his favorite team? Wouldn't a better fantasy be the fan pitching and striking out someone from a different team? ...or the fan hitting a home run against a different team?
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