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Birders and baseball followers alike might perk up once they see the newest advert from DirecTV starring Corridor of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson.
DirecTV is selling its newest no-dish-needed protection of baseball with an advert marketing campaign that includes the well-known fireballer changing outdated satellite tv for pc dishes into miniature ballparks — made particularly for birds! What’s extra, you may win a dish-based ballpark — or a “Millet Mullet,” just like the props used within the advert.
Randy Johnson Fowl Ballpark Satellite tv for pc Dish
Johnson’s involvement performs off the truth that he as soon as killed a chicken with a pitch throughout a 2001 spring coaching recreation. The southpaw’s fastball was interrupted by a blur of a dove that became an explosion of feathers.
Johnson has stated he’s since made peace with the unfortunate incident and even makes use of a useless chicken within the emblem of his images web page.
To assist promote the previous dish-based supplier’s new dish-free service, Johnson introduces a “baseball paradise for birds,” a repurposed DirecTV satellite tv for pc dish that serves because the spherical basis for a miniature reproduction ballpark (full with figurine gamers and all). And this foolish stadium isn’t only for present — you may enter to win one of many Fowl Ballparks proper now.
And the enjoyable doesn’t cease there. Johnson leans into his “Massive Unit” playing-day persona by sporting a “Millet Mullet” (a riff on his well-known hairdo), which you may also enter to win — so the attending birds have one thing to snack on through the video games. (Peanuts could be good for birds, however Cracker Jacks not a lot.) Baseball and chicken followers alike can register to win one of many Fowl Ballparks or that knit mullet.