Like/Dislike – July Edition

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Posted by Hannah Brown

In this month’s unsolicited sharing of opinions, we convince you to see things our way on the subjects of rogue baseball jerseys and advertising to advertisers.

LIKE!

Don’t Taze Me, Bro
One of the simple joys of summer in Denver is a cool evening baseball game at Coors Field, home of the purple-pinstriped Colorado Rockies. A modern stadium with a breathtaking mountain view, a team that wins enough to keep us interested, and friendly fans make for the ideal ballpark experience.

In fact, so friendly are the folks at these games that when popular teams like the LA Dodgers and Boston Red Sox come to town as they did last month, darn near a third of those in the bleachers can don the visiting team’s colors without inviting the kind of harassment that elicits a hearty tazing from excitable security personnel.

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Having attended a few games among militantly, belligerently devoted maniacs in other cities, we know Denver’s brand of peaceful fan coexistence isn’t achievable in many other ballparks. That’s not to say we’re not passionate about our team, but we’re glad Denverites, by and large, respect the storied histories and resulting enthusiasm of teams with longer and more regal legacies.

We just hope our scrappy group of upstarts brings us the same joy in the future.

Other things that are cheering us:
A spate of new gourmet food trucks, summer music fests, anticipation of Conan’s new show, King Tut at the Denver Art Museum, the hot-dog-shaped hot-dog stand in Bailey, CO.

DISLIKE!

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Who Do You Think You’re Talking To?
Way back in March, a group of major magazine publishers placed ads in leading periodicals telling the world that the print magazine had not perished beneath the weight of digital media’s fat thumb. We’ve been mulling this series of ads over for a while now and have come to a complex and nuanced verdict: They’re dumb.

We believe wholeheartedly that there’s room for print and digital publishing in the marketplace, so maybe they should try convincing those who aren’t so sure. The ads themselves are well designed and clever, but are targeted to would-be advertisers — not the person who actually bought the magazine, is reading the magazine and must already be convinced of their enjoyment of magazines. The ads undercut the group’s whole message. They’re telling us they’re relevant (generally a sign that one is not), but they’ve placed an ad that’s not relevant to the people consuming it.

Other things that are getting on our nerves:
Phone books on our doorsteps (still?), mosquito bites, wildfires set by idiots, tornado sirens, the continued production of “Two and a Half Men,” rain on the Fourth of July.

Hannah Brown is a Content Editor at Weaver who specializes in banishing lazy sentence construction, militantly hyphenating compound modifiers, and giving her thesaurus a good workout. She has 9 years of writing and editing experience including 4 years at Weaver.

2 Comments

Wow! she’s a tough lady!

Comment by Craig — July 19, 2010 @ 9:52 pm
Alright, you win. I just woke up my toddler, thanks to a gasping guffaw directed at your bio graf.

But go easy on the magazines—they’ve got to flesh out their books with something where the real ads used to go.

Comment by Ron S. Doyle — July 27, 2010 @ 11:26 pm