[PotatoPeeler]

http://store.reebok.com/product/inde...entPage=family

Is there anyone who deserves his name on a line of baseball cleats less than David Ortiz? Frank Thomas maybe? How the hell do you even market these?

Announcer: Now you can wear the same cleats David Ortiz wears when he's... ummmm.... walking to the plate.

[Babrook]

You will be your team's go-to bat in the Reebok® Big Papi 2M Mid Metal men's basketball cleat.

These cleats improve my swing so much!

Thanks Reebok®!

[PotatoPeeler]

A Big Papi basketball cleat actually makes more sense than a baseball one.

[Babrook]

How do Basketball Cleats even make sense?

I ripped up the hardwood at the rec - now I can't play in rec league anymore!

Thanks Reebok®!

[PotatoPeeler]

How do Big Papi baseball cleats make sense?

[Babrook]

They don't, but Basketball cleats don't make sense at all.

[eriqjaffe]

Everybody knows that Clemens is a much, much bigger cleater.

[Left-handed Badger]

Actually, Ty Cobb would be the best at marketing cleats.

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by PotatoPeeler

http://store.reebok.com/product/inde...entPage=family

Is there anyone who deserves his name on a line of baseball cleats less than David Ortiz? Frank Thomas maybe? How the hell do you even market these?

Announcer: Now you can wear the same cleats David Ortiz wears when he's... ummmm.... walking to the plate.

Extra Bases (excluding Home Runs) 2007

Granderson - 84
Rollins - 78
Holliday - 62
Ramirez - 60
Reyes - 60
Utley - 58
Rios - 57
Uggla - 55
Cano - 55
Crawford - 55
Ordonez - 54
Ortiz - 54

JD Drew - 38
Manny - 35
A. Rod - 31

so, there's some logic behind it - he had to do a fair bit of running to 2nd and 3rd base (although even I'm impressed with the fact he recorded 1 triple last season!!!)

I excluded HRs because there isn't quite the running urgency on it as there is for a double or triple

[yankeesrule]

Originally Posted by redsoxford

Extra Bases (excluding Home Runs) 2007

Granderson - 84
Rollins - 78
Holliday - 62
Ramirez - 60
Reyes - 60
Utley - 58
Rios - 57
Uggla - 55
Cano - 55
Crawford - 55
Ordonez - 54
Ortiz - 54

JD Drew - 38
Manny - 35
A. Rod - 31

so, there's some logic behind it - he had to do a fair bit of running to 2nd and 3rd base (although even I'm impressed with the fact he recorded 1 triple last season!!!)

I excluded HRs because there isn't quite the running urgency on it as there is for a double or triple

Of those 53 doubles, how many woulda been triples by most others on that list?

[AnotherAlias]

Originally Posted by yankeesrule

Of those 53 doubles, how many woulda been triples by most others on that list?

Probably all of them, minus the ground-rule doubles. :tongueincheek:

[Left-handed Badger]

If he had 1 triple, wouldnt that mean he had just 52 doubles. 54 extra bases. a double one extra, triple 2 extra. I'm nitpicking, huh.

[mirrf]

I'm waiting for the Ron Cey cleats. -Those will be tight.

[PotatoPeeler]

Seems there was some confusion over at Reebox (or RBK, if you prefer their new, hip, cool, and ultimately lame trademark). This is actually Big Papi's new shoe line: Reebok + Kool-Aid = Instant Classics on PSFK

[Chaddeus Maximus]

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[andjbock]

Just because Ortiz doesn't tear up the basepath doesn't mean he shouldn't have a cleat line named after him.

Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds would be much worse choices because of their negative publicity.

Curtis Granderson lacks the notoriaty or market prowess of a Big Papi so he would be a far worse choice.

I understand that you are associating cleats with the basepaths, but that's not what Reebok is doing.

[Gastric ReFlux]

I can't wait until the line of Big Papi Tutus comes out.

[PotatoPeeler]

Originally Posted by andjbock

Just because Ortiz doesn't tear up the basepath doesn't mean he shouldn't have a cleat line named after him.

Roger Clemens or Barry Bonds would be much worse choices because of their negative publicity.

Curtis Granderson lacks the notoriaty or market prowess of a Big Papi so he would be a far worse choice.

I understand that you are associating cleats with the basepaths, but that's not what Reebok is doing.

Actually, Ortiz's lack of speed has nothing to do with it. Cleats are useful to fielders as well. But Ortiz likely can't recall what his glove even looks like.

I get that they want a well known player to market their shoes. And since the American public is so damned stupid, they'll likely make a lot of money off it. But with this product, there's no allure of being able to do something just like the person who has their name on the shoes simply because you are wearing said shoes. I mean, kids and the like could always think something along the lines of, "Now I can jump like Michael Jordan!" when they laced up a pair of Air Jordans. What are they going to think when they strap on a pair of Big Papi cleats? "Cool! Now I can walk to the plate and sit in the dugout just like David Ortiz!".

But like I said, people are dumb and it will likely bring in a lot of revenue for Reebok. Which is a great move for them. The point I was trying to make was that a pair of cleats with Big Papi's name on it rates fairly high on the unintentionally funny scale.

[JWay]

You know PP since most Americans stand up walk to the kitchen/bathroom and sit back down, doing while wearing Papi's makes a lot of sense.