by Stop Mike Lupica on September 14 at 10:49AM
A while back, during the Yankee-Sox game I attended with The Marathon Man, he came up with an idea while we were joking about those sports venues (not Yankee Stadium) where marketing people or cheerleaders or mascots come out and "shoot" t-shirts into the crowd. Not a big deal, but it always gets fans excited. He proposed that he would be more excited if they shoot hot dogs out into the crowd instead of t-shirts:
Sh*t, we were just joking. But apparently it does actually exist. Interesting.
I hope never to see one of these at a game, though. I'll go with the Greek Professor's take on this - we were talking about it, and got into how crazy fans go over these free t-shirts that they probably will never use:
"Yeah, it reminds me of this time I was at a basketball game at the Garden. While exiting, in the walkways there was a bunch of people throwing out free Liberty t-shirts, and it was ridiculous to see people going nuts for these shirts. The last one got thrown into the crowd, and this mini-scrum occurred, and this teenage boy emerged fighting for the t-shirt against this little girl. He like ripped the t-shirt out of her hands yelling "Mine!"."
He then brought the story on home with some of his well-thought out, larger moral revelation... I don't remember exactly, but I think it went like this:
"Yo, if getting a free t-shirt causes this 16-year teenage boy to go all Lord of the Flies on a 8-year girl, what do you think is gonna happen if some real sh*t goes down, like if there's a major disaster or something?"
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Sh*t, we were just joking. But apparently it does actually exist. Interesting. I hope never to see one of these at a game, though. I'll go with the Greek Professor's take on this - we were talking about it, and got into how crazy fans go over these free t-shirts that they probably will never use:
"Yeah, it reminds me of this time I was at a basketball game at the Garden. While exiting, in the walkways there was a bunch of people throwing out free Liberty t-shirts, and it was ridiculous to see people going nuts for these shirts. The last one got thrown into the crowd, and this mini-scrum occurred, and this teenage boy emerged fighting for the t-shirt against this little girl. He like ripped the t-shirt out of her hands yelling "Mine!"."
He then brought the story on home with some of his well-thought out, larger moral revelation... I don't remember exactly, but I think it went like this:
"Yo, if getting a free t-shirt causes this 16-year teenage boy to go all Lord of the Flies on a 8-year girl, what do you think is gonna happen if some real sh*t goes down, like if there's a major disaster or something?"
You mean like "what's going to happen if he's fighting for food?" Like free hot dogs?
If you wondering what the point of this post is - I don't have one, but I think this video of the hot dog launcher in action is pretty awe-inspiring. Those hot dogs are being launched with so much speed someone has to be losing an eye.
If you wondering what the point of this post is - I don't have one, but I think this video of the hot dog launcher in action is pretty awe-inspiring. Those hot dogs are being launched with so much speed someone has to be losing an eye.
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It's amazing to know I can get more with cheap objects than actual money.
T-shirts and trucker hats make nubile young college women take off their clothes.
Plastic beads make women take off their clothes.
Actually, that's not wholly accurate. Booze makes those things happen. The other stuff is just an excuse.