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Weekend Diversion: Old School Commercials, Cubs and Sox Edition

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Mar 22, 2009 8:00PM

On a gorgeous day like today, it's hard not to turn thoughts away from the hardwood action to action on the diamond. The 2009 Major League Baseball season begins two weeks from tonight and both the Sox and Cubs get underway two weeks from tomorrow. We've been watching old clips of games to get pumped (seriously, Benjy won't stop watching his 2005 World Series DVDs). But then we stumbled across some great treasures on YouTube. Enjoy some classic commercials and one seriously bad/awesome bonus video after the jump.

Mike Ditka and the Sox. What could have been...

The 1985 season didn't quite work out as Harry hoped


Sometimes, there are no words...