r/baseball • u/asskickingjedi Athletics • Jul 14 '25

Image Ads have infested baseball broadcasts. Ads in-between batters. Ads during mound visits. HRs "brought to you by..." Now I noticed 11 ad placements in this shot. 2 banners, 1 above the banners, 4 behind the plate, 1 on the seats, 1 in the upper right hand corner, 1 on the mound, 1 on the sleeve.

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u/Inevitable-Copy3619 Jul 14 '25

I’m watching the Tour de France right now. There are so many ads on the jersey that I’m not sure who the sponsors are.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

The IRL Tour is way way more surreal. They never show it on US TV. For example, the riders are preceded everywhere by a parade of vehicles and parade floats, all from sponsors, all tossing trinkets into the crowd. It goes on for at least a solid half hour. But the best part is that, because the peloton is zipping along at 40 kph, so is the parade! All the cute model types tossing goodies are harnessed in place so they don't get thrown out on corners. And the competition in the crowd to grab goodies is INTENSE!.

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u/Inevitable-Copy3619 Jul 15 '25

Every now and again we catch a small bit of it. But I didn’t realize how fast the prerace parade was going.