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What the Astros Do When You're Not Looking: Those Wacky H-E-B Grocery Store Ads/Videos

Marketing strategy meets local heroes, raising the question, "Should over-acting come with a sell-by date?" Answer: It's either this, or new Ad-Stros unis emblem-festooned like NASCAR participants.

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Brad Kyle
Apr 04, 2022
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To the victor, the spoils may indeed go, but these started well over a year before the Houston Astros paraded through the streets of downtown, three weeks before Thanksgiving 2017.

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