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Westheim · 07-26-2016, 07:27 PM

The Mets are a mess in their own right, but watching from Germany, I don't get the normal commercials, I get German commercials on MLB.tv.

At no point in time over the last five years that I have had MLB.tv have their been more than three spots in the pseudo-rotation. So that means: the same two or three spots after EVERY half inning, during EVERY pitching change.

The choice is sometimes... baffling. It's a sports show. So I assume the demographic watching - which in Germany will be tiny enough - will be mostly male. When I watch other stuff by other means and get the US or Canadian commercials, it's what I would expect from commercials during a broadcast targeted at a male audience, which means Budweiser, Ford F-150, Home Depot, and Viagra.

Not so in Germany! While one of the two spots in the pseudo-rotation right now is for carrier Vodafone and is more on the annoying side (so annoying and stupid and dumb it actually makes me angry every five minutes), the other one is for ... nail polish. Actually. NAIL POLISH.

I just ... can't. How ...??

I can only imagine that the poor soul having to market the commercial breaks in Germany was happy to get five bucks from somebody, anybody. I don't know...

Meanwhile the Mets are losing in anemic fashion, as usual. I wanted to watch the double header in entirety, but with this one running long and being no fun... ah...

Sorry, I had really nowhere else to vent about this.

07-26-2016, 07:27 PM	#71
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 14,018	The Mets are a mess in their own right, but watching from Germany, I don't get the normal commercials, I get German commercials on MLB.tv. At no point in time over the last five years that I have had MLB.tv have their been more than three spots in the pseudo-rotation. So that means: the same two or three spots after EVERY half inning, during EVERY pitching change. The choice is sometimes... baffling. It's a sports show. So I assume the demographic watching - which in Germany will be tiny enough - will be mostly male. When I watch other stuff by other means and get the US or Canadian commercials, it's what I would expect from commercials during a broadcast targeted at a male audience, which means Budweiser, Ford F-150, Home Depot, and Viagra. Not so in Germany! While one of the two spots in the pseudo-rotation right now is for carrier Vodafone and is more on the annoying side (so annoying and stupid and dumb it actually makes me angry every five minutes), the other one is for ... nail polish. Actually. NAIL POLISH. I just ... can't. How ...?? I can only imagine that the poor soul having to market the commercial breaks in Germany was happy to get five bucks from somebody, anybody. I don't know... Meanwhile the Mets are losing in anemic fashion, as usual. I wanted to watch the double header in entirety, but with this one running long and being no fun... ah... Sorry, I had really nowhere else to vent about this. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 95 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 * 2071 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.