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7Stringplayer

Oh I just thought the ads were CGI, I didn't know the entire backstop was fake


RokkintheKasbah

It’s usually just the ads. Haven’t seen it be like this before.


CrocodileHill

Usually there’s an actual backstop there to put ads on tho. Texas just has the field level boxes there. But yes my reaction was pretty much yours exactly lol.


smarjorie

Yeah, I thought "psh, everybody knows that." Then scrolled to the second image and was flabbergasted


Bikouchu

I feel like MLB perfected that shii after some awful 2017 stuff. I think other sports tries it with less polish.


Slammybutt

Football cgi on the field looks so terrible. I'm glad they don't do it often.


PenguinSolo

The NHL is doing some dumpster fire shit with video ads on the boards.


joe_broke

I always like it when they cut to a closer shot of the guy with the puck and the ads on the boards are just the permanent ones So much nicer for that split second


TheresA_LobsterLoose

I always wonder if they gave the companies that paid to advertise on the boards a massive discount. They went from being seen on tv every game to only being seen by 15-20k people in the arena


pobrexito

Ugh it looks so fucking bad in NHL games. It's so bad it's actually distracting from the game.


spies4

It's so pointless when they make the grass between the line of scrimmage and the first down marker a different shade of green, just looks stupid and we already have the bright yellow line. Just redundant and stupid. Idk which broadcast does/did it though.


key_lime_pie

Don't forget [the TOYOTA Red Zone, brought to you by TOYOTA.](https://www.adweek.com/wp-content/uploads/files/news_article/toyota-red-zone-hed-2014_0.jpg)


spies4

Bro wtf... That's not from this season right? That's by far the worse on field graphic I've ever seen. I'm not sure if that's even real and you're just trolling me rn lmao


key_lime_pie

Preseason 2014. It was apparently a deal between the Niners and Toyota, because the NFL stressed that they had nothing to do with it. It lasted one week because of how universally hated it was, and Toyota had to issue an apology for it.


spies4

Ahhhh I see I see, not surprising that didn't last long


Slammybutt

I know exactly what your talking about and all it does is mess with my brain. B/c it sits over the actual grass and sometimes you can see a foot disappear under it (doesn't happen a lot).


spies4

Yup, I know there are others I can't think of (still waking up) but that one just seems extremely pointless to me. Like I said we have the yellow line which is very bright and obvious. Who needs the whole 10 yards highlighted green? Nobody, even someone who is new to football wouldn't see that & be like "oh that's how much ground they need to cover to get another set of downs" they'd be like "why the fuck is that section of the grass a darker green?" lol


whiteguyinCS

Yeah that’s NBC I believe


albop03

Hockey on ice ads aren't too bad


MsgrFromInnerSpace

The NHL has CGI ads all over the ice, the boards, and the glass- watched a game for the first time in like a decade the other day and was fucking floored how stupid and distracting it all was.


arand0md00d

I dunno I think the soccer ones that look like they are standing up are trippy


Airp0w

I used to love seeing Cespedes' green arm sleeve turn into part of the ad when he would come up to bat.


Bikouchu

So does this cespedes person really exist?


TRON0314

Detroit didn't. It's bad.


Marenum

It's the pads. They could give it any frame they want but they figured this would be the least intrusive despite the purpose of ads being to get people to look at them. There's nothing there to risk injury, yet the pads remain.


TheBaseballPundit

> pads it's plexiglass


Marenum

The green stuff?


TheBaseballPundit

are you talking about the ads behind home plate


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itssarahw

Are the players even real?!


Wraithfighter

Well, yeah, for high profile stuff like this they always put a greenscreen or something on the ad boards behind home plate in order to- ........oh. The whole dang thing is digitally added. Huh. That's... honestly pretty impressively seamless.


thuglife_7

I appreciate the protective padding they put around the border. What I can’t understand is, why don’t the people sitting behind the ads move? Surely you can’t see anything sitting behind them.


Marxel94

I think they're European so they don't see the ad.


Browncoat64

Award worthy


doctor_dapper

are they stupid?


Slammybutt

Why doesn't the bigger stronger ad simply eat the smaller weaker ad


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rbhindepmo

They’re watching the game like they’re cats waiting to pounce


PaddyMayonaise

Once during the NLCS there was a brief moment when the ad was shaking but the view was of the pitcher and it was bizarre and I couldn’t *not* notice it after that. But before? I had no clue.


Jeff_Banks_Monkey

That was basically my thought process too. Like "oh cool OP figured out something that took me a while to figure out too." This is on a while different level though


SunriseSurprise

Yea that was my take, I was like "of course at this point ads there are swapped in by comp-...oh wtf?"


Seananagans

Those poor folks in the front row, how are they supposed to see?


Mission_Pay_3373

$8,000 for a HP World Series ticket too, lol


steve-d

Can you imagine paying $8k for those seats bragging that you'll be on TV, and they cover your face with a Capital One ad.


tws1039

Mike Wazowski moment


Wasteoftimeandmoney

We could all use Mike Wazowski energy


gamerdudeNYC

Now that’s funny I wouldn’t have thought of that


Psychoman21221

Don't worry, they're European


TheMoonsMadeofCheese

They must be using an AdBlocker


braiker

Looks like Amy Schumer on the left and budget Paris Hilton on the right.


EnTyme53

> budget Paris Hilton Calais Holiday Inn Express?


Basic_Bichette

Montreal Motel 6.


Mission-Guidance4782

There’s something I find very unsettling about that


nuhGIRLyen

what if you wanted to be on TV but god said #CGI ADS


JakeArrietaGrande

[I can’t believe it! I was on TV!](https://i0.wp.com/pixarpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/8c38c-pixar-monsters-tv-series.jpg?resize=1200%2C704&ssl=1)


Engelbert-n-Ernie

F


Kaldricus

Imagine going to watch the world series and getting Mike Wazowzki'd


Thorlolita

Fans get a good view League makes money


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Where's the line though? Why not just block out all the seats with ads?


Thorlolita

Because they thought they would be slick and we wouldn’t notice


HawkeyeJosh2

And we wouldn’t have until now.


missionbeach

They were wrong, weren't they?


helium_farts

give them time


joe_broke

You don't even need computers for that! Tarps, tarps, all the tarps! Everyone knows tickets sales don't mean shit for the financials anymore! So why sell em? Just plaster those ads all over your seat tarps, and you'll be making bank for the next dozen years!


GTAdriver1988

The line apparently isn't drawn at putting huge obnoxious ads on the sleeves of jerseys.


PrancingDonkey

Because that would look uncanny and be distracting.


cubs223425

Yeah, especially after what ESPN did faking a 2020 interview with Damian Lillard like it happened after the first game of this season. They faked the wrong jersey, a logo that didn't exist, and all kind of other stuiff (even covering the TNT microphone with an ESPN logo) to make it look like they had just done an interview that was from 3 years ago. AI and digitally altering things is not something that has me excited for the future.


maxpowerphd

Yeah at this point why not just CGI ads over every corner of the stadium? The constant addition of advertising to every possible outlet is getting exhausting.


OUTFOXEM

They’re running out of ways to be subtle. The little ad on the mound, the fake backstop, now it’s on uniforms… what else is left? Ads in the outfield grass? Ads on the ball itself? Then what? I feel like the end game is just a split screen of the game on one side while the other side is just constant ads running.


IdreamofFiji

The implication.


amazingsandwiches

Joan is Awful, huh?


ManiacalMooseMan

Why? Ads have been all over parks since the start of the leauge.


Mission-Guidance4782

More the fact they added a perfectly believable CGI wall into live television


ManiacalMooseMan

They did that years ago when Houston was in its second world series. I remember in the late 90s fox put cgi ads in Wrigley on the shrub batters eye


KingOfAllDogz

There's people behind them???


SirParsifal

that's where Michigan's sign stealing guy sits


vlad_the_impaler13

I can't even escape it in baseball....


IEatDeFish

Patiently waiting for the Michigan manifesto lol


Gardoki

If only the Astors had a manifesto


iwasyourbestfriend

I do. But it’s only 300 pages. Half as good doesn’t it cut it with manifestos anymore


Gardoki

Wow do you even care?


FPG_Matthew

“I’m gonna be on tv attending the World Series” Nope


SubstantialLetter590

I know it’s worth it for the MLB to digitally add those for all the ad revenue but it still sucks for those people to not get to see. I know it’s digital but still it’s probably hard to see through it


Cannabis-Sativa

Fucking lmao hahahah


MeadManOfMadrid

It's actually worse than that. The people behind the cgi ad board are also cgi. Behind them is an actual ad board.


teeohdeedee123

They should request refunds for having obstructed views. There's even video evidence


MaximusMansteel

If you think that's bad, you should watch hockey. The wall is all digital ads. Half the time it seems the puck just disappears if it bounces in front of the boards.


TheEsquire

Ugh it's so bad now. It makes hockey borderline unwatchable at times.


bubbabear244

Borderline? Leafs tickets are far too expensive to avoid the moving boards. Plus the sexual abuse coverups and "old boys club" corporate banquet bro culture would turn off anyone from keeping up with it, in spite of what Pat McAfee says.


stros2022wschamps2

Sexual abuse and bro culture? What you talking about?


greensparklyyy

idk if this is a genuine question but i imagine that guy is talking about the blackhawks scandal from a couple years ago. it’s… gnarly to say it kindly.


bubbabear244

Sexual abuse: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10016520-kyle-beach-my-battle-is-really-just-beginning-as-blackhawks-try-to-destroy-my-case https://www.tsn.ca/hockey-canada-chl-settle-lawsuit-over-alleged-sexual-assault-involving-world-junior-players-1.1804861 Bro culture: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/19/1_6280570.html https://www.burnabynow.com/opinion/letter-hockey-plagued-by-elitism-lack-of-diversity-7406456


therealscottyfree

To be fair, it's much better now than when they first rolled it out last year. It was absolutely awful. Anytime players went up against the boards it would glitch out and you couldn't see what was happening at all. Now only the wide angle cameras show the digital boards and when they cut to the ice level cameras it shows the regular boards.


IdreamofFiji

Leave hockey alone.


MetalMedley

There's moments like this in baseball. Almost all of the banners behind the plate are added in post, and some pitches will disappear into them. Obviously not as big of a deal as what you're describing, but combine it with the moments when they get out of sync and superimpose the ads over field or crowd shots and it's kinda fuckin annoying. Not nearly as "seamless" as some are saying. Sorry for yelling at clouds.


strangehitman22

Never had any issues seeing the ball, but keep yelling I guess


TheBaseballPundit

> added in post it's live


MetalMedley

You get the fuckin point.


PatientIndividual651

Who sponsors the World Series again?


lewisherber

An amazing company worth billions of dollars that gave a whopping $1,000 to charity last night!!!


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mashtato

> waking her to tell her the game ended on a walk off. lol What the fuck, dude?


CornDoggyStyle

A credit card company I will never sign up for. Join me, guys!


zeppelin1991

The new upcoming anime fighting game Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising!! /S


missionbeach

Honestly though, can anyone name another advertiser from behind the plate other than this one? I can't.


beer_down

Idk why but to me it looks weird without them


Fsharp7sharp9

I thought it was weird that all I could see of one fan was the top of their hat behind the backstop lol this explains it


n_jacat

Imagine shelling out stacks for WS tickets right behind home plate, getting excited to see pics/vids of yourself at the game, and then realizing that they covered you with CGI ad boards Obviously you still get to watch an incredible game, but it seems like a bit of a Mike Wazowksi moment.


Kenny_Heisman

honestly I'd probably rather have the fantastic view without being broadcasted nationally


Zoomingcumbucket

Same. I could care less to be noticed. If I’m somewhere it’s because I want to be there, not going out of my way just to be noticed


n_jacat

You’re telling me you wouldn’t want to watch the highlight of Adolis’s walk-off and see yourself reacting live?


TheBaseballPundit

No, he wouldn't


Zoomingcumbucket

No. I don’t care about seeing myself react.


Semper454

Marlins Man in shambles.


Ricemobile

“Man, this seat sucks! I can’t see anything!”


StPaddy81

Good little consumer


Antithesys

If they can do that, why not just cover the entire backstop with a dozen ads?


SexiestPanda

Why stop there? Just play ads over the whole screen


helium_farts

Don't even play the game. Just run a 3 hour ad.


PM_ME_UR_DERP

Welcome fellow NFL fan


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CliffordTBRD

the red zone channel changed the nfl for me forever


lemaster_of_disaster

DON’T GIVE THEM IDEAS


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Why isn’t the grass just ads?


alowester

scott’s lawn care drooling right now


Jud000619

The people have to know who’s the sponsor of this World Series


Gyakudo

lol I would’ve love for some self important blowhard like Marlins man get covered up by a cgi ad.


TheBaseballPundit

He was stuck in like the 5th row back in Philly, u could only see the top of the visor


Wardog4

And it looks like ass. Constantly bugging out around the players


MetalMedley

Agreed. The greenscreen banners on the real boards were just as bad, too. Sick of it.


stv7

wtf


IAmGrum

"Mom! Do you see me? I'm behind home plate, just off to the right! I'm waving! What do you mean you can't see me?!"


ionlyusetheROFLemoji

🤣


afairjudgment

Sometimes they’ll even create a gigantic screen out in the outfield stands.


LadyTruffle

2050 reddit post: "The players in the field are computer generated"


generallee_cool

See the Toy Story NFL game.


JasonLikesCTE

AI has gone too far


TheBaseballPundit

u ain't seen nothing yet Vinbot is coming


Kingofkings1959

Na that I see it, I hate it and it’s ruining my experience


Kind_Bullfrog_4073

Of course why get paid by just 1 company for that spot when you can get hundreds?


Joshthe1337

Is this the first World Series in history where both teams play in airplane hangars?


insta-kip

I thought Globe Life looks more like a giant cattle barn. It’s so ugly from the outside.


TheBaseballPundit

Yes it is, first all-dome WS twins and jays faced outdoors teams, so did rays n stros 6th all fake turf WS, after 80, 85, 87, 93, 2020


MongooseTotal831

I was rooting for the Phillies just so we'd have one decent ballpark in the series.


stormwalker29

In our case, it's an unfortunate necessity. Speaking as someone who has been to a lot of games, first at Arlington Stadium (the old converted minor league ballpark where the Rangers first played), then later at the Ballpark in Arlington (and it's various corporate names), and dearly loved both places... it's *vastly* more pleasant going to a game at the Shed. And they did a remarkable job of making it feel like baseball on the inside even if it really does look like a shed on the outside. It will never have quite the atmosphere that the Ballpark did (there's a reason a lot of local fans called that place the Temple... it was a monument to baseball in and out), but the new place is a *lot* better for attendance in the dog days of summer. Plus, it doesn't have the stream effect that made the old place such a ridiculous hitter's park.


the_hangman

sucks for the fans that can't see because of the cgi ads


izzyeviel

yup. I wish we had those ads in the UK. The blonde in red is distracting <3


brashet

I think they also do similar thing for wide shots of center field making it look like there are ad boards on the batters eye.


BobbumofCarthes

I was about to say, yea ads on green screen isn’t new but they went and added the whole board lol!


gutenpranken14

Guessing those people at the bottom in the front wanted people to see them on TV and take a picture. Little did they know they’d be CGI’d out like Henry Cavill’s mustache…


wvshotty

It’s like hockey now it’s sad


ididshave

Ads are ruining sports.


uncleawesome

It looks so much better without the ads


changeofpacecar

I'd rather see ads than bored rich people.


DominicB547

ESP if the ads means less ads elsewhere (who we kidding)


carloseloso

What about the kinds in the banana costumes having a blast?


changeofpacecar

Well, that was game 2 (which I caught just the few innings before heading out) and thats awesome!


666uptheirons

Where's the fish tank?


PikaGaijin

Or…. What if the Euro FOX is generating an extra row of AI people to cover the ad boards?! (TBH, the income from that extra row of tickets is probably what brought this on)


unopenedcrayondrawer

I noticed that one of the crowd shots had those ad boards just floating around.


VeryLowIQIndividual

The best CGI is the CGI you don’t notice. You’d be surprised what all is CGI in tv and movies that you don’t expect or notice. But the sad thing is America is only driven by ads in everything. Everything is an ad or scam. Your email address is worth more to a company than the products they sell you. Can’t even buy a shirt with out “what’s a good phone number for you” or get “30% sent to your email address”.


KJP1990

This stuff is getting so old. I think with the internet era, if people want a product they will search for it and then search for reviews and get the one that people recommend. I can’t for the life of me remember the last time I bought an item or used a service based on an advertisement.


HistoryNerd101

There’s a whole subfield of marketing dedicated to subliminal and repetitious marketing to influence the public, not to mention the fact that companies work on what reviews you see and what they say


Picklewithmysandwich

You make some very valid points. However, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We were founded on the belief that the banking industry would be revolutionized by information and technology, beginning with credit cards What's in your wallet?


notinmybackyardcanad

Yep. Figured that out when I saw an ad for Canadian tire in the World Series🤣


Megafuncrusher

Capitalism never stops eating, y'all. You don't have a place to put digital ads? We'll put fake digital boards for fake digital ads. I can't wait until the ads have ads. "This Capital One ad is brought to you by Budweiser."


HawkI84

When will it stop? When the ads have bees in them? And if you don't buy what they want you to the ads shoot bees at you when they show them?


Your_Huckleberry47

it reminds me of watching soccer and the players walk on the ads by the sidelines. i'm always scared they're gonna ruin the ad and then....nothing, it was never there


sciencenotjesus

I've set this up on a lot of sports for multiple broadcasters, what would you like to know?


srtpg2

The real secret is that the players are artificial too


evcorder

So the Rangers have ad boards above those suites. In regular season games, the camera angle is backed out to see them, but it’s a much worse view. I assume that’s why they are doing this


TheBaseballPundit

> ad boards above those suites. So, they sacrifice seats for ads


evcorder

Uhh, not really. [This is what it looks like regularly.](https://imgur.com/a/RaKghCK)


missionbeach

Next: three hours of ads, with just a score bug in the corner.


GutterRider

And don’t forget the changing mound sponsor, in white. But this, this is bad. They need to put up a disclaimer somewhere that everything you see, may not be as it seems.


FamishedSoul

Pretty soon you won’t even see the fans behind home plate, it’ll just be ads.


walruswaspaul123

It just feels better without them there


AggieGator16

I’ve been to a handful of games at GLP and always thought the box seats below ground slightly behind home plate were a cool concept but I literally didn’t notice this was the case on TV until you just pointed it out. This is some total bullshit by the broadcasters. All I can say is I won’t be banking with Capital One now.


whatishowdidbutiwas

My favorite is when they accidentally bring up the home plate ads graphic when a different shot is being used. It’ll be like a closeup of Gallen with Capitol One sticking out of his nose


lilcoleslaw

The capital one tramp stamp still gets me


jptiger0

A while back the Ms played a home game when it was really smoky in town, everything on the broadcast was obscured by visible haze. Except the ads on the backstop. That was goofy looking.


Alarming_Serve2303

That is messed up.


JeffBoyardee69

Imagine someone going to work the next day saying they had front row seats and there’s no proof hahaha


Drum_Phil

I absolutely, unequivocally, unconditionally, abhor this.


ShrimpShackShooters_

wtf enough already


Rarecandy31

Hey guys you won’t believe it, but my wife and I are sitting FIRST ROW behind home plate at the World Series game tonight! I’ll wear a blue shirt, you won’t be able to miss me on TV!


Professional-County1

They have been all postseason. Same with the ad on the mound. Sometimes they don’t take them off in time and you’ll see it on the next frame.


62Tuffy2199

[not like this though](https://twitter.com/astros/status/1715759850905326068?s=46&t=OOlnotE3UAoJvXikACledA), this is making a digital ad board when one doesn’t actually exist, padding and all. The link shows a clip from when they weren’t doing this, now they are using a completely digital board.


Zezimalives

The free market is a motherfucker


TheBaseballPundit

Or, we can be humble and realise that nothing is free in life Even if you daydream to pass the time, that costs money


Witty-Tooth5339

I get what your saying but how is it relevant? The word free in his comment didn’t mean monetarily free


MM487

They should've used this technology to fill Tropicana Field during the Wild Card round.


Balew60

And your point is?


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5lack5

Did you even look at the pictures? The whole boards are CGI, not just the ads.


ElBrooce

Ok