He's no Billy Mays, but... by Jared Carrabis
SoxSpace's Jared Carrabis stars in Sully's 30-second spot


Jared’s Bucket list: Star in a commercial, check.

If you’ve been following SoxSpace since we first entered the blogosphere back on New Years Day 2006, you know that our relationship with Sully’s Brand had connected not long after the first blog post.

When I first started SoxSpace, I was a 16-year-old kid that wanted nothing to do with anything that didn’t have to do with baseball. My first job was at Bob’s Store in Saugus, and the only reason I worked there was for the 20% discount on Red Sox shirts.

While employed at Bob’s, SoxSpace’s relationship consisted of a little contest you may remember, the “SoxSpace Fan of the Week,” which since has turned into the fan of the past year and-a-half because I haven’t updated it.

Anyway, the SoxSpace Fan of the Week ranged from boys to girls, men to women of all ages and location within the world.

I took a night class at North Shore Community College, and somehow it was mentioned that I ran a Red Sox website. A mother of a military man was in the same class as me, and she told me the story of how her son was picked to be the Fan of the Week by a Red Sox website.

Immediately, it didn’t click in my head that I was the one who picked her son to be the Fan of the Week for my site, but then a week later, she brought in a picture to show me.



The picture was of Sgt. Jonathan Wiley, and the photo had been taken from SoxSpace. A pretty cool coincidence if you ask me.

The concept of the Fan of the Week was to give a SoxSpace reader a free t-shirt from Sully’s each week, but you had to earn it. I only selected the best submissions and the most worthy fans, and there were plenty.

That’s how my relationship with Sully’s had began.

When it was time to part ways with Bob’s, or Bob’s time to part ways with me, rather, I had asked Chris Wrenn, the owner of Sully’s Brand, if he had any jobs available. Chris told me that he had planned on asking me if I had wanted to work for him, but I beat him to the punch.

For the past three years, Chris and I have worked together to add to the Red Sox fan experience with Boston’s most popular tees. Chris’ designs have been donned across the chests of Boston icons such as Dustin Pedroia, Ben Affleck and the guy who buried the David Ortiz jersey inside the foundation of the new Yankee Stadium.

When Chris came to me with the idea of being in the first ever commercial for Sully’s, I was flattered. First, because Sully’s is his creation. If anyone should be in the first commercial, it’s him. So, I was honored that he thought I was good enough to represent his brand on NESN.

Second, because what's cooler than getting to be on TV?

Chris had done a lot over the years to help me out, including printing these shirts during my run for President of Red Sox Nation, and helping bring SoxSpace to the dot com world, so I was more than happy to be a part of something as special as the first commercial for Sully's.

Although I’m no stranger to being featured in a commercial on NESN…



I must say that it is a lot cooler to star in one. Without further ado, I give you the official Sully’s Brand commercial!

Sullys from StarPilot Productions, LLC on Vimeo.

What did you think of the commercial?
	Loved it! It was hilarious!
	It was OK. Could have been better.
	Jared, stick to blogging. Commercials are not your thing.
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Published on July 20, 2010

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