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[Kurp]

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I'm wondering why there would be an advertisement in Japanese behind home plate of an A's and Mariners game. I can't see the DS logo being recognizable enough to forgo using English if they're aiming at the American audience. Does Ichiro Suzaki still have a crazy draw in Japan after all these years? I'm just curious at the choice.. any advertising people here have an idea?

[SephYuyX]

Ads can be generated numerous ways, depends on how you get your cable, sattelite, or w/e.

Ive seen one cable box smart enough, that after viewing certain stations, such as JP shows, replaceable ads will be JP stuff.

In conclusion, I have no idea.

[Fhqwghads]

That's actually an ad for IGE and reads: "YOU BUY GIRR NOW!! BE BESTEST PRARYER ON SERVER!!! DO NOT BE DS! (dipshit wwww)"

[Byrd]

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I'm wondering why there would be an advertisement in Japanese behind home plate of an A's and Mariners game. I can't see the DS logo being recognizable enough to forgo using English if they're aiming at the American audience. Does Ichiro Suzuki still have a crazy draw in Japan after all these years? I'm just curious at the choice.. any advertising people here have an idea?

I'm not an advertising fan, but I am a Mariner fan.

Mariners still have a huge drawing in Japan. That Japanese advertising has been there since (I believe) 2001, when Ichiro joined the team. There's a reason that Mariners are consistently the second or third most profitable team in the Major Leagues, despite having a medium sized market with a below average baseball team.

There are tourist packages in Japan where you can buy a weekend pass to Seattle where you get a Japanese tour guide and go to a couple of baseball games. As of 2003, they got a couple hundred people a week on the package. Safeco Field also offers daily tours in Japanese (when calling for tour details, we had to specify what language tour we wanted).

Amusing side note I learned on my tour: Safeco Field also has braile room numbers next to the doors for the visually impaired. This includes the umpire's locker room, just in case the umpires are blind too.

[MikedeeFenrir]

Isn't Ichiro Japanese?

I'm a Yankees fan and ever since they picked up Matsuei they added all these Japanese ads all over.

I think some major league games are also televised in Japan.

Add:

O, I forogot, they sell sushi at Yankee stadium now.

[Avvesione]

O, I forogot, they sell sushi at Yankee stadium now.

They've had Sushi at Safeco Field since I think Kaz Sasaki joined in 2000 (as well as the japanese ads). But yeah, since they begun bringing more Japanese players over (Kaz Sasaki, Ichiro and now Kenji Johjima) they've still been getting a large number of Japanese tourists.

And I've watched Japanese TV before and after they look at their leauge of baseball, they look at MLB (usually Seattle and NY first)

[Masterofshade]

I enjoyed mariner's games, and I enjoy japanese school girls... what's not to love?

[MikedeeFenrir]

O, I forogot, they sell sushi at Yankee stadium now.

They've had Sushi at Safeco Field since I think Kaz Sasaki joined in 2000 (as well as the japanese ads). But yeah, since they begun bringing more Japanese players over (Kaz Sasaki, Ichiro and now Kenji Johjima) they've still been getting a large number of Japanese tourists.

And I've watched Japanese TV before and after they look at their leauge of baseball, they look at MLB (usually Seattle and NY first)

Do they look at the really bad players and speculate which is coming to there league next?

[Brien]

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I'm wondering why there would be an advertisement in Japanese behind home plate of an A's and Mariners game. I can't see the DS logo being recognizable enough to forgo using English if they're aiming at the American audience. Does Ichiro Suzuki still have a crazy draw in Japan after all these years? I'm just curious at the choice.. any advertising people here have an idea?

I'm not an advertising fan, but I am a Mariner fan.

Mariners still have a huge drawing in Japan. That Japanese advertising has been there since (I believe) 2001, when Ichiro joined the team. There's a reason that Mariners are consistently the second or third most profitable team in the Major Leagues, despite having a medium sized market with a below average baseball team.

There are tourist packages in Japan where you can buy a weekend pass to Seattle where you get a Japanese tour guide and go to a couple of baseball games. As of 2003, they got a couple hundred people a week on the package. Safeco Field also offers daily tours in Japanese (when calling for tour details, we had to specify what language tour we wanted).

Amusing side note I learned on my tour: Safeco Field also has braile room numbers next to the doors for the visually impaired. This includes the umpire's locker room, just in case the umpires are blind too.

Thats pritty funny and insightful, I have heard the JPs love baseball over everyother sport

[Groovebox]

Well, It's got us talking about it, so it's a pretty good ad ;p

[edgarfigaro]

Doesn't Nintendo own a piece of the mariners? Either that, or the president owns a piece.

[Avvesione]

Doesn't Nintendo own a piece of the mariners? Either that, or the president owns a piece.

Yeah, Nintendo's owner does own part of the Mariner's, but there are other Japanese ads there at Safeco Field. They had some supermarket chain on their main screen and I've seen other Japanese ads there.