PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For more than a quarter-century, Phillies fans considered dollar hot dog night among the best ballpark promotions — but the team has now decided it was the wurst.
Those dog days of April — when Philly weather is cold and the wieners are a steal — are going, going, gone.
Remember when they would give away thousands of baseball bats and people were trusted enough not to beat each other to a pulp? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
The Tigers would let anyone with a military ID in free for all home games when I was stationed in Detroit. No better way to spend a summer evening than eating hotdogs and drinking beer at a ballgame. Eod1sg Ret BTW, in the olden days, cops didn't have Bomb Squads, so Army EOD units were stationed in damn near every major metropolitan area in the US.
$1 hot dogs, inexpensive beer in glass bottles, baseball bat giveaways... or, ball cap night, or... a thousand other ways that "the fuckers" have ruined things in our country. Soon, a reckoning is coming. All of them, or all of us. Hard hearts, folks. The way it was, the way it could be again.
Very surprising that this particular demographic would perform such a shenanigan. Doncha think...or doncha...?
ReplyDeleteOh, the humanity!
ReplyDeleteUnruley fans in Phily? The city of Brotherly Love?
ReplyDeleteIf they want to stop Philadelphia's famously 'unruley' fans, the solution is to cancel all professional, high school, and Little League games.
DeleteRemember when they would give away thousands of baseball bats and people were trusted enough not to beat each other to a pulp? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
ReplyDeleteIn retrospect, combining "$1 Beer" and "Free Bat Night" was a bad idea.
DeleteThe Tigers would let anyone with a military ID in free for all home games when I was stationed in Detroit. No better way to spend a summer evening than eating hotdogs and drinking beer at a ballgame. Eod1sg Ret BTW, in the olden days, cops didn't have Bomb Squads, so Army EOD units were stationed in damn near every major metropolitan area in the US.
ReplyDeleteThey could try 10 cent beer night, then dollar hot dogs wouldn't seem so bad.
ReplyDeleteI remember ice cold beer being sold in the stands in glass bottles...not one was ever thrown...1965....at the stick.
ReplyDeleteMy, how times have changed. As a guy who grew up within 30 miles of the city and dearly loves the Phillies, this is bad news...
ReplyDeleteIt's Philly - so what?
ReplyDelete$1 hot dogs, inexpensive beer in glass bottles, baseball bat giveaways... or, ball cap night, or... a thousand other ways that "the fuckers" have ruined things in our country. Soon, a reckoning is coming. All of them, or all of us. Hard hearts, folks. The way it was, the way it could be again.
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