Vote Lucroy

[bmfc1]

After seeing this, I stopped my "Write in Recker" campaign and decided to vote for Lucroy:
http://deadspin.com/brewers-catcher-jonathan-lucroys-anti-cardinals-all-sta-1592323001

[ashie62]

nah

[Frayed Knot]

The way this skewers the typical lame political ad was kind of funny.
That teams feel it necessary to openly ask fans to ballot box stuff is kind of sad.

[Edgy MD]

Seems to me that, even if teams aren't finding it necessary, or tasteful, the league wants them to pander for votes. I imagine a good portion of the vote-grubbing content on the Mets website is created at league offices, and looks exactly like the vote-grubbing at most other teams' sites.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the on-line voting thing is, of course, all connected to web-hits and the on-line ad dollars they hope to generate, and all that money goes into the league coffers so is most likely league directed.
So I suppose if league policy is to steer teams towards whoring for as many votes as possible anyway then give credit to the Brewers for at least coming up with a novel approach to it. I would have preferred the whole cycle not started in the first place, but in truth they're probably not coming up with worse results than they were before they let this horse out of the barn, and being brazenly open about it is arguably better than the days when more subtle nudges to vote the home ticket were going on as teams were pretending they weren't.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I liked the ads.

I don't think the ads are necessarily vote stuffing, but building team and player branding. I look it as using the All-Star Game voting as an opportunity to showcase their stars.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I don't think the ads are necessarily vote stuffing, but building team and player branding. I look it as using the All-Star Game voting as an opportunity to showcase their stars.

Sure, but in order to use the ASG as the place for to showcase your stars you first have to get them there, and today's accepted way of getting them there is via encouraging your fans to stuff the box.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy MD wrote: I imagine a good portion of the vote-grubbing content on the Mets website is created at league offices, and looks exactly like the vote-grubbing at most other teams' sites.

I expect so. This season I bought tickets for games in Pittsburgh and Seattle, and as a result I've been getting e-mails from the Pirates and the Mariners that are very similar to those I've been getting from the Mets. At least, judging from the subject line; I've been deleting them unread.

[seawolf17]

Frayed Knot wrote: Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: I don't think the ads are necessarily vote stuffing, but building team and player branding. I look it as using the All-Star Game voting as an opportunity to showcase their stars. Sure, but in order to use the ASG as the place for to showcase your stars you first have to get them there, and today's accepted way of getting them there is via encouraging your fans to stuff the box.

This and this. A lot of these guys won't make it to the ASG, so this is their chance to get some branding out there. Heck, we wouldn't be talking about Jonathan Lucroy without it.