With the baseball season having just officially gotten underway, now's the time when you start getting hit with ridiculous local promo commercials looking to get you to come out for a game.  And let's face it, some teams need all the help they can get drawing fans. My Giants are running a stupid "Are you a gamer?" commercial campaign. If by "gamer" you mean I love watching my team lose, then hell yeah, I'm aboard.

But because baseball is the one sport that truly goes the extra mile to make weird promos, here's a look back at some ridiculous ones used over the years to try and get you fired up for the season. Because if a 6'5" man beating his kids with a pillow won't get you out to the ballpark, nothing will.



Here are Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee doing their best Eddie Murphy old man from Coming to America impersonations.



This may honestly be the worst conceived promo ever. It's for the Pittsburgh Pirates and involves gratuitous butt slaps and the line "We're all Pirates." Yes sir, a commercial about butts and pirates. Someone obviously didn't think this one through.



Here's the Philly Fanatic pulling a poltergeist on a clearly unsatisfied woman.



This is a ridiculously sugar coated Mets promo from 1985, but it's particularly hilarious for one major reason. The commercial shows kids morphing into Mets players and guess who morphs into Keith Hernandez? A girl, naturally. And we all know what Keith thinks of women in baseball.



Nothing beats the Frank Thomas child abuse promo. Again, not sure who exactly approved this, but they clearly deserve a medal for getting this thing on the air.



Speaking of beating things, the destroying a piñata promo has always been popular.



Dancing Mariners? Sure, whatever.



I guess when you're the White Sox and you have to compete against the fanbase of the Cubs, you call in the big guns like Ditka to do promos for you. Although the fact that Jerry Reinsdorf's prominently featured automatically ruins it.



And last, there's nothing like making fun of how you made the playoffs the season before. Even if you never touched it.