Even the 99 Cents Only stores are picking on Manny Ramirez
Posted on Thu May 14 2009
Why should late-night comedians be the only ones having fun at Manny Ramirez's expense? The power-hitting bad boy of the Los Angeles Dodgers, if you recall, was recently suspended for 50 games for flunking a drug test. Now, and one regional marketer has slipped in a sly reference to the situation in a full-page print ad. The 99 Cents Only stores, beloved for crude homemade ads that could pass for ransom notes, is touting a dietary supplement called Men of Iron as "nature's answer to enhance performance." Whatever your drug of choice, the retailer says it's "tested positive" for the best deals in town. The ad also hawks a bunch of cucumbers just opposite Men of Iron, but execs at headquarters say that was just a Freudian slip.
—Posted by T.L. Stanley
