Pepsi spots keep Mauer and Damon waiting

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Pepsi has a couple of new Major League Baseball ads out, with Johnny Damon and Joe Mauer getting stuck in limbo when a guy pauses the ball game to go get a Pepsi from the fridge. (See the ads on Pepsi’s Web site—click the arrow to the right of the video screen to enlarge.) They would work better as ads for a DVR, but the chit-chat is amusing. Damon even admits that he misses having long hair and a beard.

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