April 25, 2012

BP Unfiltered

A Great Leap Forward in Baseball Analysis

by Sam Miller

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I'm taking great effort to not exaggerate, but I would say I see this commercial 25 times a day on MLB.tv:

And the fine folks at Productive Outs have made sure that I will never see it the same way again.

Firstly, neither guitarist is playing the 16th-note Edge-like figure we hear.

— Productive Outs (@ProductiveOuts) April 25, 2012

Second, the guy playing acoustic guitar switches from acoustic guitar to Hammond organ, and there's no Hammond organ in the song.

— Productive Outs (@ProductiveOuts) April 25, 2012

Thirdly, the singer looks like Chad Kroeger.

— Productive Outs (@ProductiveOuts) April 25, 2012

I suspect that the original song didn't test well and they decidedto replace it and thought no one would notice. Well, Corona, WE NOTICED.

— Productive Outs (@ProductiveOuts) April 25, 2012

On the other hand, the racial make-up of the crowd at that concert seems spot on.

(Everest, the band, is playing Citi Field before the Marlins and Mets play Thursday.)

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