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February 26, 2009
Yankees Take a Hit
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Bank of America decides not to sign a big advertising deal with the Yankees, as the economy even hurts the big teams. The money they would have made from the deal likely would have paid the yearly salary of one of their superstar players.

Update: It looks like the deal was worth more like $10 million a year, so half a superstar. :-)

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February 04, 2009
The Quest
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In a spoof of the Holy Grail, Derek Jeter and other sports stars go on a quest for Gatorade. The Dance off is great, as well as Jeter battling the toy poodle.

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February 02, 2009
Death Spiral
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River Ave. Blues looks at looks at what a potential advertising bubble burst could mean for the Yankees.

October 06, 2008
Pooling Resources
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So what do you think, the BaseballMusings.com Pool?

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May 13, 2008
Endorsements
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Yankees Chick runs down the top ten Baseball Player endorsements. My guess is that Ford gives Jeter a very nice car to drive.

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April 06, 2007
Not Uptight, Not Unattracted
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The Jays are turning on the lights, 'cause they're radioactive:

The major league club announced yesterday that nuclear operator Bruce Power, which supplies more than 20 per cent of the province's electricity, has gained national rights to plaster its logo and name throughout the Rogers Centre and during game broadcasts.

Under the five-year agreement, Bruce has also agreed to supply nuclear power to the Rogers Centre. In return, it gets the right to use the phase "Rogers Centre, powered by Bruce Power" in its own marketing and promotion campaigns.

Duncan Hawthorne, chief executive of Bruce Power and chair of the Canadian Nuclear Association, called the deal a "win-win" and said the advertising will give the company a higher profile in Toronto and across the country.

That should make the Rogers Center the greenest stadium in the major leagues. Now, if they could harness the wind power from strikeouts...

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December 30, 2006
Pitching for the Red Sox
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Daisuke Matsuzaka is already using his Red Sox fame to pitch products:

The Japanese baseball star, also known as "Dice-K," who the Sox paid $103 million to acquire has recorded a Japanese commercial hawking Asahi Super Dry beer, fully dressed in Red Sox regalia, showing that his star power in the Far East has already lent marketing clout to his new team. The endorsement happened without the involvement of the Red Sox, under rules that give Major League Baseball control over the team's trademarks outside New England .

Those rules aside, Sox executives believe there is a big market in Japan and locally for endorsements involving the team and Matsuzaka, and that their new pitcher will boost the team's popularity in Japan past that of a certain pinstripe-wearing rival with a Japanese player of its own.

"We want to be the team of Japan. The Yankees are very popular over there because of [Hideki] Matsui, but now we think we can get in over there as well," said Sam Kennedy , the Red Sox' senior vice president of sales and marketing. Matsui , the left fielder the New York Yankees snagged in 2003 from Japan, remains popular there and has several endorsement deals.

This will make the Matsui-Matsuzaka matchups even more exciting! The winner gets the best Japanese endorsement deals! :-)

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January 25, 2006
Google Gone
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I've removed Google AdSense from my website due to their agreement to censor searches in China..

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July 11, 2005
Blogads Network
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BlogAds now allows the creation of mini-networks. I've created one with all the baseball blogs I could find that take Blogads called Baseball Blogoshpere. If you are included, you may wish to add a link to the page. If you are included and don't wish to be, let me know and I'll remove you blog from the list. By having a number of us link, we may be able to sell more ads than just working alone.

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April 05, 2005
New Affiliates
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