
In the grand tradition of harebrained schemes to sell minor league baseball tickets, the Macon Music will host Eliot Spitzer Night on June 13th. In addition to inviting Spitzer to throw out the first pitch, the Music have planned a totally zany night that includes a trip to New York and one night in the Mayflower Hotel, a "prize pack" for the ninth fan to enter the stadium, $1 discounts for any fan with the name Eliot, Spitzer, or Kristen, and wire taps placed around the stadium. Whoa, some of those ideas are so wild my hat almost flew off.
"If you look at Minor League Baseball as a whole, it’s all about the wildest, wackiest promotions out there," South Coast League chief development officer J.D. Hardin said… "I think this is probably the craziest idea to come out of the Music office yet."
If I had to grade the wackiness of this promotion, I'd have to generously give it an F-. Except that's not quite the right size or color.
F-
Ah, that's better. C'mon, you're basing your promotion on a prostitution ring, but you've got no hookers in the stadium? No designated handjob zones? No condom giveaways? No free entry to any active-duty hookers or even a discount for women who dress like hookers? No empty lot behind the stadium about to get filled with concrete? Wait… scratch that last one.


I give it, half a diamond.
a trip to New York for one night in the Mayflower Hotel
I thought the Mayflower was in D.C., not NYC
First mistake is the name of the team…Second is, have you seen the chicks from Macon Ga.? I used to teach the Army Reserve down in Ft. Gillem, and boy….shudders….I wouldn't fuck them with your dick, let alone a hooker…Not enough penicilin in the world.
The first 400 people thru the gates get dusted for crabs.
(not related to promotion)
Still, it beats the Frisco Rough Riders' "Mark Foley" night from last year.
Re: UpstateUnderdog
From the actual story: "The Music will give away a trip to New York and a one-night stay at the Mayflower Hotel."
… but not necessarily as a package. Maybe they're sending one person to NY with no place to stay while another gets a place to stay in DC with no way of getting there.
Also part of the promotion:
– The Music will play Frank Sinatra songs throughout the night.
anyone?
A drawing for a free HIV screening will take place during the seventh inning stretch.
Bring the kids.
They would change their name to Macon Money, but they ain't.
Hookers and crappy baseball have had a long-standing kinship. Haven't you see A League of Their Own?
I'll only attend if it's "Elliot Swallower" night. No one likes a mess.
I still prefer dollar beer nights at my local minor league team