another car commercial?

naturally, since we are back to baseball season, i have spent an uncharacteristic amount of time watching tv lately, mainly my astros. what i have recently realized (and whether it's worse this year or it's always been this bad and i've just never noticed before, i'll never know) is that there are an inordinate amount of car/truck/dealership commercials at breaks (buffered by the occasional minute maid commercial). what is the deal with this? do sports fans buy more cars and trucks than the average person watching another show? seriously, these commercials are not only way too frequent, but they are REALLY bad, especially the local dealerships. it's almost worth getting a DVR and starting the game a half hour later just to fast forward through these things. you'd think in the days of DVR's and tivo that commercials would be getting better, but apparently not.

why is this such an issue this year? lately it seems the commercials are all i have to look forward to. fox, make it stop! bring back your fun commercials. i miss seeing people running into other people and running into walls. bring back the "we're all astros" commercials!