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You can’t watch a baseball game on TV or read about one in the newspaper’s sports section without becoming a connoisseur of cliches. This spot for video game Major League Baseball 2K8 by Neiman Group bonds with fans by running through a glossary of baseball cliches in good-naturedly ironical fashion.
When the manic voiceover (delivered by Denis Leary) declaims “I wanna make circus catches that’d make Barnum blush,” the screen cuts away from its combination of live and video-game baseball action to show us a Barnum & Bailey poster (complete with blush).
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