The Promotion: Cash Drop. The West Michigan Whitecaps, Detroit’s class-A affiliate, had a helicopter drop $1,000 in various bills from a helicopter after a game.
What went wrong: People love money more than they love other people. Two children were injured scrambling for the cash.
A girl received a bloody lip being pushed to the ground, while a seven-year-old boy was bruised when he got trampled in the fray.
The Outcome: The boy was taken to the hospital, but released after treatment. The team management summed up the incident by reminding everyone that they had signed waivers.
For my take on this, check out this link where I wrote about it at the time.
I think this last one is on the list is on there for two reasons. The first is the author is trying to fill out the list with a #5. The second is the author gets to mention Slate.
The Promotions: All-you-can-eat seats . Undoing the work of Shaq and Cookie Monster, the Dodgers decided to promote obesity by opening up a section of all-you-can-eat seats. Although beer, ice cream and candy are still for sale, most food is just given away. Ticket prices range from $20-$40.
What went wrong: Not everybody can handle an open buffet of hot dogs and nachos. One Slate reporter wrote about his experience in the seats, which predictably ended in vomit. I can only imagine that countless other fans have had their evenings end in a similar way.
Um, no. I've been to a few all-you-can-eat nights, but none of them have ended that way. With Leather sums up my feelings about Slate:
Slate.com is the preeminent place on the Internet for joyless contrarian d*******gs to show off the big words they know but can’t use in conversation, and it’s never more irritating than when they try to write about sports.
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