i never planned on buying a chevy anyways, so this probably won't make much difference, but oh well.
tuesday night, during game 3 of the world series, chevy showed a commercial highlighting the positive influence of "latin americans" on America. which, in and of itself, is not a bad thing; along with crime, and typhoid, and driving wages down, latin americans have done some good north of the border. my problem came when i noticed that the commercial was in spanish. now, maybe i'm just old fashioned, but i think that anything even remotely related to the premier event of America's pastime--such as a commercial aired during the game--should be in America's national language, which, last time i checked, was ENGLISH. chevy, for all their claim to being "an American revolution," seem none too concerned with actually being American.
also, Danner, have you noticed the large percentage of latinos employed in major league baseball as players? or ever thought to wonder if they weren't specifically brought here from cuba or the dominican republic to play on AMERICAN teams? also, since baseball is an extremely popular sport among latinos in and out of the united states, chevy was most likely interested in one simple thing that all major sponsors of sporting events care about: making money. advertising knows no borders.
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