Royals under pressure to drop pro-life advertiser

[pstokely]

Source: KSHB

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A battle is heating up at Kauffman Stadium but it's not about baseball, it's about abortion.

The pro-choice group, UltraViolet, wants the Kansas City Royals to end its marketing partnership with the pro-life organization, the Vitae Foundation.

Right now, the Royals run commercials for the Vitae group on the radio and at Kauffman Stadium.

On Tuesday, at Kauffman Stadium UltraViolet hired a messaging plane to fly over the stadium with the words, "ROYALS FANS DESERVE THE TRUTH — DROP VITAE".

Read more: http://www.kshb.com/sports/baseball/royals/royals-under-pressure-to-drop-pro-life-advertiser

[benld74]

1. Royals must be getting good $$$$ to run them

Wonder what will happen?
🍿 popcorn time

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Royals are a small market team - I don't think it takes much money to run ads with them...

But I have been following the Royals since 2015 and the Vitae ads have always gotten under my skin. Apparently, my skin isn't the only skin the ads get under!

[pstokely]

3. I think I've also heard those ads during games on the Mizzou radio network

notice how they are targeting things with a large male audience, and baseball fans tend to overlap with the Faux news demographic (older, white, and male)