This Verizon commercial with Royals’ Ned Yost will run during the Oscars
Royals manager Ned Yost has credited a cell phone with being the reason he is alive today. After a horrific fall from a tree stand at his farm in Georgia following the 2017 season, Yost’s pelvis was shattered and he was unable to get help.
Fortunately, he was able to use his cell phone to call his wife, Deborah, who had left the farm. She called 911 and returned to help him. Yost was airlifted from his property and had emergency surgery.
Yost believes he would have bled to death if he didn’t have cell service that day. That’s why he is in a new commercial for Verizon Wireless.
“I’ve seen the full one and the two 30-second ones,” Yost said Friday in Arizona, where the Royals will open their spring training schedule on Saturday. “They were going to debut them during the Oscars. ... They told me just keep it down until then, so I wasn’t nothing to nobody about it.”
You can see one of the 30-second commercials, which will run Sunday during the broadcast of the Academy Awards ceremony, in the video above.
Yost said Verizon contacted him through general manger Dayton Moore’s executive assistant Emily Penning about being in the ad campaign. Once the advertising agency sent him the details, he agreed to fly to Hollywood in early January.
This story was originally published February 22, 2019 at 7:50 AM.
