Author: James Partridge

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...