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Remember the “bug game”? Baseball fans sure do, though perhaps not exactly the way the history is recounted in this very funny spot for ESPN’s Baseball Tonight (via Wieden+Kennedy in New York).

A late-inning Yankees lead over the Indians in a divisional-playoff game last year turned into an extra-inning win for Cleveland after a swarm of bugs descended on Jacobs Field and disrupted play. What caused this plague of midges? At the time, announcers spoke of the effect warm weather was having on the bug-breeding grounds around Lake Erie.

But

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