Duly noted, and I think an apology is in order if I misinterpreted your post’s intentions. 

To your point, the Blue Jays commercial’s music choice is awkward at best and just plain wrong in general.  I agree, the two present a completely different perspective on their respective sport, and it’s no wonder the Sky Dome has some troubles selling tickets (though I’d argue that commercial is more a symptom of the problem than the cause).

I’ll be more careful in my comments in the future.  For what it’s worth I loved comparing the two commercials and getting your take on them, I think I definitely jumped to the “baseball hater” conclusion, sorry about that!

You are absolutely right. In the lacrosse world we would love just the toe nail of success baseball has had over it history. Which surprises me why you didn’t pick up on the irony of the post.

The post is directed to the commercial – not the sport. i was giving credit where credit is due. That being the Toronto Rock lacrosse commercial. It is attention grabbing and action provoking. Everything that a commercial should be. I was giving credit to the Toronto Rock organization for doing a great job on a solid commercial. 

I was using the Toronto Blue Jay commercial as a comparison. I was using this commercial to indicate how slow and boring some sports commercials can be and again that the Rock got it right by creating something with impact. As stated above by Matthew the Blue Jay commercial was trying to convey a message of expectation.

By no means am I expressing superiority of one sport over the other. In fact the original title was “Lacrosse > Baseball – Giving Credit where Credit is Due” but was changed during the editing process.

No where in the article to I proclaim lacrosse the superior sport over baseball. If the post is read, you will see that I am commenting on the commercial, and that the Toronto Rock did a great job at creating a buzz of anticipation for their upcoming title defense, and that I enjoyed the Rock commercial much more than last seasons Blue Jay rev-up commercial to their season.

The only angst I have, not of the Toronto Blue Jays, but of how repeated the commercial was played on Rogers Sports net last year. Again, the commercial, not the Toronto Blue Jays or baseball. Again, if you do read the post, there is no mention of one sports superiority over the other – just the superiority of one teams commercial over the other.

I love both sports (GASP!), and I can tell you one reality with the frosty relationship between the two: When lacrosse folks talk about baseball it’s with contempt, when baseball folks talk about lacrosse…oh wait that’s right, baseball is the most established professional sport in the American social and cultural fabric, it would be pointless to talk about lacrosse as it isn’t a blip on their radar.

We can hate on baseball all we want as lacrosse players, coaches, and fans.  The truth is, we all would die happy with even one more iota of the success baseball has had in the course of American history.  Until that time we are wasting our breath attacking another sport for no reason, and creating more enemies than friends along the way.