More than any other sport, giveaways and promotions are an essential, ingrained aspect of baseball. And throughout the years, there have been some real doozies – Ten Cent Beer Night, Disco Demolition Night… not to mention all of the wacky things going on down in the minors.
But the Cleveland Indians really seem to be taking their penchant for weird promotions to a new level (they were, after all, the team behind Ten Cent Beer Night). And it’s been going on for a while, right under our noses!
Look what they were rolling out just a few years ago:
Okay, you can argue those promotions were maybe a product of cutting costs as they were gearing up to contend again. And if that’s the case, you can applaud the organization for at least trying to give something to the fans in attendance.
But then the promotions really started to get weird…
Fun’s over, right? There’s no way the team could still be rolling out promotions like this, right? After all, this is one of the most successful teams in the American League – they went to a World Series in 2016! Surely they are above these craven displays of hubris… right?
No. No they are not.
At this point, you should know there’s no stopping the Indians. There’s no telling what types of baseball promotions they’ll be capable of if we leave their sick minds unchecked.
If these new promotions they’re rolling out are any indication… God help us all…
