One Year Later And It’s Still the Best Marketing Idea Ever

It’s Opening Day for baseball again, and that means it’s really gotta be spring – hallelujah! I don’t think I’ve ever re-run a post before but I think this one from Opening Day last year is deserving because of its pure brilliance and its still untapped potential for making me rich. Buckle up buckaroos ‘cause here we go.

Only the Best Marketing Idea Ever!

Hey, it’s baseball season again! Finally. (Go M’s!) And to make it even more special, I’ve come up with what I think is the best marketing idea ever! I think you’re gonna like this. Heck, I think everybody’s gonna like it, because it’s such a natural. And it might just very well make me rich.

If you ever listen to games on the radio or watch them on TV, you know that there’s a lot of advertising – or marketing – that goes on right in the middle of the game. The announcers will say something like “that double play was brought to you by Budweiser,” or “this call to the pen is brought to you by Farmer’s Insurance.” Well I thought of something that’s way better than that. Now just for illustration, I’m going to say Viagra, but it could be them, or Levitra or Cialis or even Lou Pinella – they’re just going to have to have a bidding war among themselves. But here it is….imagine it’s the first inning and the batter swings and gets a little under the ball, and the announcer says “and there’s our first Viagra pop-up of the evening. There’s sure to be many more to come.” And then every time another one is hit, which will probably be like at least twenty times in a game, they’ll just say “and there’s another Viagra pop-up.”

Okay all you pharmaceutical companies, and Lou, I expect you’ll come to me to get the rights to this, because I’m calling dubs on it right now!

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This is a natural for Our Duncan Funk Song of the Day ... and check out that guitar!

Title: Centerfield
Artist: John Fogerty