Madison Mallards Get Morgan Freeman-Like Voice Treatment

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Sounding very much like Morgan Freeman, the Tom Kane-intoned voice over in these new Shine Advertising-created spots (one, two) for the Madison Wisconsin Mallards baseball team (yes, we’d never heard of them either) conveys the purity of America’s favorite passtime (at least the way it should be) to…opera and stamp collecting. Yes, we know. It sounds very strange but, on some odd level, it works.

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