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Good blog.

Haha. Funny stuff. Yankee echoes the thoughts and words of every baseball fan in America right now.

Larry, why do you always jump into perfectly civil conversations, and try to piss someone off?

The grownups are talking; go back up to your room.

Dane Cook is a bad comedian, and a bad baseball fan. I don't know if anyone else saw the Bill Simmons thing on ESPN.com, but apparently the guy is a big hypocrite. He wore a Yankees cap a few times, and both Yanks and Sox apparel at the SAME TIME! No fan of baseball does that.

Not EVERY baseball fan in America. Some of us on the left coast have never heard of him. I've been watching the game for 30 years

dane cook has never, and will never be funny.... he did it like a mercenary, for the money, and i don't think that one guy, wearing red sox paraphernalia, should be trying to sell us on the playoffs anyways, because that makes it look like MLB only supports the sox... i think they should have done that with a whole bunch of different comedians/actors/celebrities from all of the baseball towns... like billy crystal for the yankees, etc... that'd be a better thing...

Thanks, Larry. I try.

Hemogoblin, it's like this...imagine going to the movies, and right after the lights go down some jerk jumps up in front of the screen and yells, "The movies! The drama! The laughter! The action! The movies are great...you should really watch the movies!"

I mean, wouldn't you just kill him?

My doctor told me that Dane Cook may be resonsible for my ED. So he told me about Levitra.

HATE DANE COOK not funny at all. Joke stealer as well.

dane cook isn't that bad of a comedian, and if you didn't realize, those ads are also on TV when playoff games aren't going on, and they're on a few more channels. if you were dane cook, and you were being offered a ton of money to do a commercial about MLB playoffs, you would do it, right?

Do you really think there are baseball fans out there watching other channels that DON'T know about the playoffs yet? And they need Dane Cook to tell them?

And your last point is just silly. The fact that he's being paid makes him funny? Huh? The post didn't say, "Dane Cook Isn't Being Paid Enough." It says, "Dane Cook Sucks."

I agree with hemoglobin's idea of having fans of the teams do the ads. Billy Crystal for the yankees, somebody other than ben afleck for the sox, drew carey for the tribe, etc.
The wearing of both Yankees and Red Sox apparel is like having a bumper sticker reading honk if you love jesus, and another about paganism. Just doesn't work and confuses people. Not even as a halloween costume.

I think the whole effort is ridiculous. My guess is that when networks get the rights from MLB to broadcast the games, they have to promise to promote them.

But to whom, and for what? The bulk of these promos are during games, preaching (loudly, and in a non-persuasive way) to the converted. But WE'RE ALREADY WATCHING, AND YOUR YELLING AT US DOESN'T MAKE US MORE INTERESTED.

I can understand TBS promoting that FrankTV show during games...you paid a lot to get a big audience, so you might as well use the opportunity to promote something that'll be airing when the games are over. Annoying? Yes. A reasonable business decision? Sure.

But not this Dane Cook crap. He doesn't say anything a baseball fan would say, and doesn't act like a baseball fan would act. It's just so fake. And I can't imagine it's convinced a single person to watch the games who wouldn't have already done so, but it might be so awful that it's scared a few away.

I don't understand why everyone loves Cook. Or why he is so popular. He just yells alot. I guess that what's comedy now.

Wasn't that comedy in the 80's, with Sam Kennison and Bobcat Goldthwait? I guess this guy doesn't just steal jokes; he steals them from dead people.

Him and Mencia would be good pair.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1KRrXI-4GYg

Jason Sudeikis does a great Dane Cook impression, the second one is funnier than the first...

DANE COOK SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See? That's what I'm TALKING about!

And I LOVE CCR...stuck in Lodi again, baby....

DANE COOK IS IN MY LIVING ROOM AND HE'S YELLING AT ME AGAIN!!!

This just in...Dane Cook says there's only one October. Duly noted.