Comments on: Chicago ad agencies angry at the Cubs for hiring a New York firm

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:54:04 +0000

Yeah you do. It’s amazing how I can love a show but hate most of the characters.

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:47 +0000

I really need to start watching Mad Men…

By: unclemosesgreen

unclemosesgreen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:51:38 +0000

Amen brother. The Chicago firms got to put in a proposal just like everyone else, and the Cubs hired the best firm. That’s how it works in a free market. Chicago firms should stop whining about the best proposal winning and focus on trying to have the best proposal next time.

By: unclemosesgreen

unclemosesgreen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:48:30 +0000

Hot but vapid and talentless. Hotness isn’t really a talent, she won the lottery.

Yes I have seen and enjoyed XMen first class. Anyone could have played her part. Megan Fox is smoking hot too. And also vapid and talentless.

I like Mad Men, don’t get me wrong. But it has been critically built up into something it really isn’t. It came out hot, and there comes a time where a show become of such an “unquestioned” status that it stops being questioned.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:13:35 +0000

Maybe I’m just too aloof with this kind of business model, but who cares where we get an ad agency from? Ricketts can choose whomever he wants. Maybe he wanted an agency that has more objective thoughts about the Cubs, and in Brooklyn that’s very likely.

They hired Theo/Jed/Jason, they bought the McDonalds lan plot, they’re renovating Wrigley, they got rid of all but 1 nasty contract left on the team…I don’t think this advertising hiring is exactly a miss, either.

By: WhenMattStairsIsKing

WhenMattStairsIsKing — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:09:18 +0000

She’s great at playing what she is; a childish, irritable, selfish nutball. I think January’s great. We’re not supposed to really like her.

By: Loose Changeup

Loose Changeup — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:30:50 +0000

In my mind, Freddy Rumsen is the account guy for the Cubs. In a later scene, he gets them all stinking drunk and promises them ownership of the World Series for years to come.

By: crispybasil

crispybasil — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:24:16 +0000

And Woodford instead of Canadian Club. My bad.

By: deadeyedesign23

deadeyedesign23 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:16:51 +0000

Up until the last sentence I have his back. January Jones is effing terrible on that show.

By: muckthefets23

muckthefets23 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:28:05 +0000

Hey uncle Moses, are you completely ignoring the fact that January Jones is smoking hot??! I mean have you seen X Men first class??!

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:22:19 +0000

While in his underwear. Absolute most, a bathrobe.

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:51:32 +0000

But with a bubble pipe

By: unclemosesgreen

unclemosesgreen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:50:09 +0000

“Don leaves to have a meaningless tryst with a woman far more interesting than his wife Betty.”

That doesn’t exactly narrow his playing field. Betty is even less interesting that the no-talent January Jones seems to be. Can’t emphasize enough how miscast that part was. All of the ranting and raving about what a great show this is ignores deep problems with casting, writing and story continuity.

By: crispybasil

crispybasil — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:42:46 +0000

Spot on – I imagine that’s how Craig et. al. speak to the NBC Sports interns.