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Love this

#1 Post by Ritterskoop » Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:40 pm

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#2 Post by BackInTex » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:06 pm

Fake

Look at the close up slow mo replay.

None of the fans have their heads up looking at the ball. They are all looking down watching the girl. why?

And the ball just sort of drops straight down to her. Not a waining arc of a fly ball.

But it is fun to watch.
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#3 Post by BackInTex » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:09 pm

Its a Gatorade commercial.

http://adage.com/garfield/post?article_id=127616

But I still like it.

From the article
It's certainly an amazing fabrication of an amazing play. The ball girl is a stuntwoman who was lifted by cables as she planted her feet against the wall, a sequence cut into actual game footage and enhanced with a bit of CGI and a perfectly natural-sounding announcer track.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson

War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)

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#4 Post by Ritterskoop » Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:36 pm

That's good to know. I kept trying to figure out how she would have time to plan that specific footwork and turn to the left.
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#5 Post by Appa23 » Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:37 pm

BackInTex wrote:Its a Gatorade commercial.

http://adage.com/garfield/post?article_id=127616

But I still like it.

From the article
It's certainly an amazing fabrication of an amazing play. The ball girl is a stuntwoman who was lifted by cables as she planted her feet against the wall, a sequence cut into actual game footage and enhanced with a bit of CGI and a perfectly natural-sounding announcer track.
Yeah, I already corrected Mr. PSM on the hoax.

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#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:10 am

Wow, it didn't take long for Snopes to get to this
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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