Is that Herb Chambers, Biz Markie, and Youk?
Herb Chambers - Biz Markie - Kevin Youkilis
For most baseball players, the right walk-up song — the song that plays as betters approach the plate — is a crucial element to playing the game. Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis likes to have a little fun with his.
Youkilis uses a little play on words as he goes to the plate to Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend,” a song famous for its “Youuuu, you got what I need…” lyric.
That part of the song, of course, is very familiar to the refrain of “Youuuuk” that rains down every time Youkilis takes the plate.
Local car dealer Herb Chambers, has finally brought Youkilis and Biz Markie together. In a new commercial for Chambers’ car dealerships, whose slogan is “We’ve got what you need,” Youkilis and Chambers get a little help from Biz Markie.
Check it out below.
Is that Herb Chambers, Biz Markie, and Youk?
By Jeff Glucker
Being from the Boston area means you learn handful of facts specific to The Hub.
One of them is that Kevin Youkilis (A.K.A. “The Greek God of Walks,” “Youk”) is a great pro baseball player with a few years left in the tank (despite his 2011 woes).
Another fact is that you can’t throw a stone in New England without hitting a Herb Chambers dealership. As a former resident of the great state of Massachusetts, your author is an Escalade-sized Red Sox fan and also worked a summer shuttling rental cars between two of Herb Chambers’ dealerships.
It seems Chambers and Youk are working together now, but their approach is… unique. Sitting at a piano, the duet attempts to warble out a version of Biz Markie’s classic Just A Friend. Predictably, it’s not exactly Grammy worthy. Hell, it’s not even worthy to make the first round of American Idol auditions. Luckily, Mr. Markie isn’t far away and steps in to help the pair get the song just right.
The message? Herb Chambers has got what you need, thanks to his 48 dealerships located around New England.
Kevin Youkilis, Herb Chambers rewrite Biz Markie hit in new TV spot
Red Sox star Kevin Youkilisis teaming with auto baron Herb Chambers for a hip-hopping new TV commercial with Biz Markie.
The spot launching tomorrow shows Youkilis and Chambers sitting at a piano trying to work out a rendition of Biz Markie’s 1989 hit “Just a Friend.”
Youkilis admits that he’s not “much of a singer” and stumbles through a few more takes with Chambers, Biz Markie jumps in, singing “Youk, you got what I need…”
Sox fans already know that Youkilis uses the tune as his theme song before stepping to the plate at Fenway Park.
The All-Star signed a two-year endorsement deal with Herb Chambers, operator of 45 car dealerships, in May 2010.
The Biz Markie spot, produced by Danvers-based Neal Advertising, will appear on www.wevegotwhatyouneed.com and air on local TV broadcasts starting next week.
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Groupon’s most recent financials aren’t looking so hot, which has economists wondering whether the company that started the daily deal deluge might be in trouble. Though the company’s been courted by Google and raised nearly a billion dollars in financing earlier this year, at no point in its existence has Groupon ever made a profit. So the company’s recent decision to remove their Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) numbers from their financial statements — a measurement of profits before they’re adjusted to factor in subscriber-acquisition costs and stock-based compensation — does not bode well, according to financial analysts.
Vin Vacanti, who runs the (rather addictive) site Yipit.com, looked at the Groupon’s Boston market recently for evidence of this, and saw a tremendous dip in the Groupons sold per subscriber and the revenue earned per merchant. “These two metrics suggest that Groupon’s bottom line is in trouble,” writes Jay Yarow at Business Insider.
Rob Wheeler at the Harvard Business Review goes a step further, questioning not only the business model but Groupon’s raison d’etre in a recent blog post. “Deep down, Groupon knows what we all know: good investments are profitable investments,” he writes. “Groupon’s fundamental problem is that it has not yet discovered a viable business model.” Wheeler argues that a major thing missing from Groupon’s business plan is that their insane focus on growth hasn’t netted an improved experience for the user. The notion of a deal “tipping” is pretty much over, and it doesn’t operate like a social network which only gets better when everyone joins. Not only that, but buying deals doesn’t make life better for the user over time; there’s no incentive structure to keep buying from Groupon, which is a problem as the market gets more and more flooded with copycats.
But with all that money flowing in, who has time to worry about making a profit, right? Not so much. Groupon apparently needs $750 million in it’s IPO to keep the company solvent. Now if someone can come up with a deal site for that, they’d have a pretty impressive business on their hands.
Exxon makes major oil discovery in Gulf
Exxon Mobil said Wednesday it has discovered an estimated 700 million barrels of oil equivalent at a deepwater well off the Louisiana coast, a major find that a top House Republican argued should push the administration to speed up offshore permitting.
“This is one of the largest discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico in the last decade,” Exxon Mobil Exploration Company President Steve Greenlee said in a statement.
Exxon Mobil made the discovery after the Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) approved an application in March allowing the company to resume exploratory drilling. Drilling at the well was halted in the aftermath of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The well is located about 250 miles south of New Orleans in about 7,000 feet of water, Exxon Mobil said.
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) applauded the discovery Wednesday and argued it shows the Gulf’s potential as a source of domestic oil.
“This is the exact reason why Republicans have been pressuring the Department of the Interior to issue offshore permits—America has abundant oil and natural gas reserves, we simply need to allow the hardworking men and women in the energy industry to do their job,” Hastings said in a statement.
Republicans and drill-state Democrats have alleged that the Obama administration is slow-walking the issuance of Gulf drilling permits. But the administration insists that it is working diligently to approve permits under a new regulatory scheme that includes beefed-up safety and environmental standards.
BOEMRE has approved 15 deepwater permits since February, when the industry was able to show that it can contain well blowouts.
