This made me laugh out loud when I saw it. Alec Baldwin (It’s Complicated & TV’s 30 Rock) and John Krasinski (It’s Complicated & TV’s The Office) trash talking each other as diehard baseball fans.

The ad is for New Era, a baseball cap manufacturer, and cleverly utilises the 100+ year rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox – a rivalry which has been labeled ‘the best rivalry in sports’ and results in a 50% increase in TV ratings when the two teams play.

Ok, this post is probably only going to appeal to my currently non-existent Amercian audience but I wanted to share it with you anyway.

My favourite part of the ad, being a New York fan, is Alec Baldwin’s quip “First of all, Yankees fans don’t consider Philadelphia to be a legitimate sports town, John, you know that.” Followed closely by “How are you a Yankees fan at all? It’s like being a huge fan of fascism,” where Baldwin replies “No. It’s like being a huge fan of winning. Which we do, relentlessly.”

Alec Baldwin has resurrected his acting career in recent years, after its nosedive in the late 1990’s, and is now one of the funniest men around. John Krasinski is hilarious in The Office and we’ll definitely be seeing a lot more of him in the future.

Even if you’re not a baseball fan, I hope you get a laugh out of this anyway. Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

For you history buffs, and thanks to Wikipedia, the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry is one of the oldest, most famous and fiercest rivalries in professional sports. Even before the start of the American Revolution, New York and Boston shared an intense rivalry as cities, providing the kindling for their sporting animosity. The Yankees-Sox rivalry is sometimes so polarizing that it is often a heated subject, like religion or politics, in the Northeastern United States. Arguably the biggest moment in it’s history came when Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players of all time, was sold by the Red Sox to the Yankess in 1919. His arrival in New York simultaneously launched the Yankee dynasty while ravaging the Red Sox. 1918 would be the team’s last championship for 86 years and coined the phrase the ‘Curse of the Bambino”.

So, did you like the ad? Is it funny, despite it being aimed squarely at an American audience? Do you like Alec Baldwin in is new comic roles? Let me know.



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