A’s commercials are famous for being quirky and cute, clever and funny. None of that is changing this year — the ads are all that plus elephants — but the locale is entirely different.
The 2017 commercials were all filmed in Oakland rather than Arizona, a first as far as team officials can recall, and the A’s ad campaign is a love letter to the team’s hometown.
Among the sites used: Oakland City Hall, Oakland Zoo, Fox Theater, Lake Merritt amphitheater and the Lake Merritt BART station.
“When they first told us, I thought, ‘That’s going to be cool,’ ” A’s starter Sonny Gray said of keeping the shoot local.