Blondie?
So I’m listening to “Mike and the Mad Dog” and I hear Kelly Ripa urging people to buy Mets tickets on mets.com. Now, I know who Kelly Ripa is because I’ve seen the front covers of magazines like Good Housekeeping in the supermarket. I’ve never actually seen her in action. I know that at some point when I wasn’t paying attention, she replaced Kathi Lee Gifford as Regis Philbin’s “goofy” female sidekick on whatever show all of those people are on.
I never saw the point of Kathi Lee Gifford and, if truth be told, I’ve never actually seen the point of Regis Philbin. Something tells me that if I were to watch Kelly Ripa on her show, I wouldn’t see the point to her either. This is no big deal, of course, since I assume that I’m not part of that show’s demographic. I assume, from the magazines she’s on the cover of, that her show is pitched to women who are at home in the daytime.
As a 52-year old man, I am part of “Mike and the Mad Dog’s” demographic. I’m not sure how many watchers of “Regis and Kelly” would want to listen to “Mike and the Mad Dog.” Most men find it hard to listen to “Mike and the Mad Dog.” I’m just guessing that the few women who can bring themselves to listen to Mike and Chris aren’t big fans of Kelly Ripa.
So what is she doing selling tickets on “Mike and the Mad Dog?” Who at the Mets did the market and media research to determine that she would be the right person to sell Mets tickets on a radio show that has an audience with zero overlap with the TV show she’s on? What is somebody thinking?
Kelly says, on the commercial, that she’s been looking at the blogs on mets.com. Where are they? I’ve been all over that site and I can’t find any blogs. She gives the names of some bloggers and they have “Somebody from Somewhere” names like people who call into sports talk shows. Bloggers don’t have names like that. Does Kelly know what a blog is? Does the writer of the commercial know what a blog is? This Kelly, right here, is a blog. Not whatever it is you’ve been looking at. I hope she hasn’t been looking at the fan forum. She doesn’t want to go there. What people might say about her there is a lot worse than that she’s not a real Mets fan because she doesn’t know that David Wright’s favorite color is acquamarine. David, is that really your favorite color?
The main thing you learn from Kelly’s commercial is that if you buy a season ticket, you get to call her “Blondie.” This is quite an incentive, but I still can’t afford a season ticket. Does this mean I can only call her by nicknames that refer to her original hair color? Will the Mets be having a lottery so that 5000 fans who don’t have season tickets will be allowed to call this woman “Blondie?” What do you get to call her if you get a Saturday pack? What happens if you buy a luxury box?
March 19th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Funny story, about Ripa and the Mets.
I briefly did PR for Mo Vaughn when he first came to the Mets. As an ‘introduce Mo to New York’ campaign, we had him sign baseballs for some prominent New Yorkers, including Kelly Ripa.
Fortunately, the first round of balls he only had one error: he signed a ball to Kelly Ripper. My younger sister stills owns that baseball.
March 20th, 2007 at 1:59 am
I think you would be surprised at how much of M&M’s audience overlaps with Ripa and Philbin’s show. After all, many people who have the time to wait 17 years on hold just so that they can complain about the Mets’ rotation and A-Rod probably watch alot of daytime TV.
March 20th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Actually, at one time, Kelly Ripa and her husband were neighbors of Willie Randolph’s in New Jersey……….
March 21st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Amazinzz, Oh, I see. I guess that probably explains it. I thought she was a strange choice. WF, I still have a soft spot for Mo Vaughn. I thought he was a good guy, though I think it was a bad idea to get him. I saw him hit some beautiful, mammoth home runs. That Kelly Ripper story is funny. I’m surprised that Kelly herself didn’t want to keep the ball.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 am
kelly is a huge met fan. she grew up in jersey and has been a mets lifer. and she is close friends with willie randolph’s wife.
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Okay, okay, if Kelly is a huge Mets fan and a lifer, I’m happy to have her make the commercials. I still think they should write better commercials.
April 13th, 2007 at 10:19 am
I could have sworn I heard Kelly bemoaning the fact that Tino Martinez had been traded from the Yankees some years ago…calling him “My Tino”. So everytime I hear this commercial, I get incredulous. But if she really IS a life-long Met fan…that’s great.
December 13th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
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February 29th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I just heard Kelly selling met tickets. She says she is the Blonde Bull Horn and that she is a natural Blonde. She goes on to say, “you can see for yourself ” if you buy tickets and sit near her.
What is this ad trying to hint at ?
March 1st, 2008 at 7:11 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LYkrLjLBAHk
P.S.
Lets’s Go Mets!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
dunno wat ur problems are but leave ere alone. she is a great talkshow host and actress and is the beauty of this plannet. she is a life long mets fan. and why your calling her ‘blondie’ like its a bad thing is beyond me, she isnt even naturally blond you idiots. even though she is still gawjus with the brown hair she is even more stunnin with the blond hair. any one that says a bad word about kelly ripa is purely jealous and need to take a hint from kelly herself. LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR. that way you can c how much is wrong with you and how much is RIGHT with her.
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