Every year during the baseball season, there is one commercial that drives me up a wall, back down again and under the carpet because of it being aired incessantly. In years past, it's been that "Peace Love" Heineken ad, or the Coors Light "Take Me Out to the Party" awfulness (I still, to this day, don't know why the one woman in the ad had her thumb to her teeth and waved with her other fingers. What the hell was that?). This year it's the Ford one that uses Train's "Drive-By" (or, as Tonya's son awesomely calls it, "Derek Jeter's song") and ohmygod I can't mute the TV fast enough whenever it comes on. I've learned to anticipate it and turn down the volume just as the first pixel of it blips on my screen. Okay, maybe not. But it's pretty close.
But then there are those that air that I've loved: The local commercials are always awesome. The Ricoh ads from the early YES Network days, and of course, this one. I think I have some unwritten law on this blog that I have to post this at least once a year. I still flove this thing:
