Monday, February 21, 2011

Putting the "fantasy" in fantasy baseball

Anyone else find something odd about this ad in "The Sporting News" 2011 preview magazine for FanBall's fantasy baseball game?

Why is a woman in her underwear thrusting a handful of cash at us? What does she, or scantily clad women in general, have to do with fantasy baseball?

I don't want to complain about females in their bras appearing in print ads in my magazines, but this looks like a GoDaddy.com-esque attempt to shoehorn sex into something that really doesn't need it. Actually, it's more blatant than GoDaddy, come to think, because GoDaddy is selling Internet domains, 78% of which will be used to display pornography.

Nobody actually believes the woman is part of the prize, I would assume, but still, it doesn't hurt to put the idea in your subconscious, does it?

Maybe this woman pictured here is the actual commissioner of "Draft and Play," and perhaps if you win, she comes to your door and hands you a cash prize in the manner (and garb) depicted above. If so, I apologize for the suggestion that this ad is an attempt to mislead or otherwise distract gullible males into shelling out their coin for the chance to grab more than just a backup middle infielder.

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