M’s 2010 Promotions Announced
First, let me just say “Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!”
The first 30,000 fans attending the Mariners’ Interleague game against the Reds on June 18 receive a Ken Griffey Jr. and Ichiro “Cooperstown Bound” dual bobblehead.
1. Members of your fanbase are engaged in a wide-ranging and difficult fight to get Edgar in. Please, not now
2. Don’t do this early. It’s presumptuous. We already know there a voters who feel their gut is the best judge of worthiness — let’s not give them any reasons to delay the inductions of these two. Who knows what slight might push someone’s gut towards “no”?
Then:
“Ichiro Designed T-shirt Day” is scheduled for May 1 and, according to Greene, “He helped us design it. It’s pretty cool.”
This could be the finest promotional give-away ever. I’m buying tickets immediately. Though I’d much rather Greene had a wary, ambiguous statement than “pretty cool.” I’d be more sure of its value if it he’d said “Fans will find it an interesting insight that they’ll want to pass on to future generations” or “It’s one-of-a-kind”.
Notably absent: Dave Sims Hat Night. Wear your finest hat, get a chance to meet the man himself. Prizes could include autographed straw hats of increasing coolness. Because Dave Sims has tremendous style. Hopefully FSN sees an opportunity to extend their brand beyond Rally Fries and seizes this idea.
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The Felix bobble head made me laugh.
What? No reprise of the I Can Haz Cheezburger night? Man, forget these promotions.
I’m mostly amused by “Ken Griffey Jr. Backwards Cap Night.” It has the potential to be a fun goofy kind of promotion, though it’ll probably just be a hat that they ask you to wear backwards.
OH MY GOD! The Felix bobblehead is terrifying!
How many folks at the Ms have been nagged about Dave Sims Hat Night?
and should we do some more lobbying?
My fall-back plan is still Dave Sims Hat section, led by the fine USSM/LL faithfull
When is Jack Zduriencik bobblehead night?
Great idea. Which section?
Lol I’d definately go to Dave Sims Hat Night. Maybe Dave could meet all the fans at the gates with his hat to greet them all in.
Whatever happened to the bat nights? Did they determine there was some kind of liability if someone got hurt? Those were always my favorite nights when I was a kid. I still have my Griffey bats.
Another year, and no revival of Apron Night.
Sigh.
I wonder if Z could pull off a trade involving James Shields and Jose Lopez.
The M’s have just solved the question of “what are we doing for our anniversary?” this year. We’ve been to train night every year and this year it’s on our anniversary.
They should’ve done a Carlos Silva bobble-belly last year.
Not enough material on earth.
A Milton Bradley bobble-head seems appropriate for some reason.
That may be subject to more liability issues than “bat night.”
I think it doubles as a Pez dispenser. Or maybe a Nutcracker. Wait, Beltre was the Nutcracker. Well, Felix can be the Mouth King.
[incoherent]
How many delinquent Seattle youth will fashion an ironic weed-smoking device from the Felix bobblehead, with his gaping mouth as the bowl?
And, Dave Sims is my new Twitter buddy and a very lovely person. I’ll make it my mission to prowl comments and come to his defense all year!
well, if there is another mid-summer blogosphere meet with game, that would be the ideal section.
I don’t see the Griffey Soul-Glow give away night, what gives?
I almost spit out my beer laughing when they played that before his late season AB’s.
Why does the Felix bobblehead look like Brando from Apocolypse Now?
Tell me the day, and the section, and I will be there.
I will also be shopping the Olympia-area Goodwills and Value Villages for something Dave would find worthy of his chrome dome.
Are they still doing Buhner Buzz-Cut Night? I assume so… therefore, Dave Sims Hat Night should be the following night, so that all of those people with newly-chromed domes can protect themselves from the sun and from falling roof panels… in style.
THE ONLY THING BETTER THAN NOT HAVING A DAVE SIMS HAT NITE IS NOT HAVING DAVE SIMS!!!!
I think we should have a Tony Blengino Programmable Calculator night.
I support this idea.
At the USSM event, there was the person in the front row with a Zduriencik jersey.
I’ve thought about getting one that says Blengino, and then instead of a number it would have a formula. Something like DER or FIP or WAR. Not sure which would fit or look the geekiest.
As the Soviets used to say “v Pravde net izvestiy, v Izvestiyakh net pravdy”
I’ve been looking around the M’s site, but I don’t see a day when single game tickets go on sale. Anyone know?
No Chone Figgins?
NO DTFT??? This could have been a fun one. How about Gutierrez bobble with an anti-aircraft gun?
DMZ, I join you in your dislike of Ichiro “Cooperstown bound” promotion. Is he even eligible until the end of this season?
I think when all is said and done, he’ll get in. But right now he’s certainly not the shoo in that Griffey is.
Ichiro does need another season to even be eligible.
No no no, if Ichiro completes the 2010 season, then retires to become a professional fashion designer, he WILL be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. He is a shoo-in. Already. Derek’s point is that the organization and its fans need to focus any HoF efforts on highlighting Edgar’s worthiness, not looking ahead to Griffey’s induction in 2016 and Ichiro’s in 2026 while pissing off a really pissy group of baseball writers.
The giveaway for soon-to-be-announced USSM Night could be a simple white T-shirt with three block-letter words on the front –
WAR
MEANS
THIS
– and a definition/explanation/equation on the back.
You never know. With what this guy is saying, even being one of the greatest hitters that he has ever seen might not be enough.
I was thinking about Edgar’s induction, and how you could get the East Coast Alcoholics (AKA Baseball Writers) to make sure that Edgar gets in. And I was trying to think of players that will be a shoo-in, but is massively overrated.
And then it hit me. Derek Jeter.
A Hall of Famer. No doubt. And a great person to play politics with. Imagine if just 25% of the voters managed to get the balls to say “We’re not letting Jeter in until you let Edgar in”. It only takes 25% of the voters, plus 1, to prevent a player from getting in. And there are at least 2 voters who will always submit blank ballots until Rose is allowed onto the ballot.
It was just a thought, but I was briefly entertained by it.
Jeter was worth 7.4 WAR last year. Maybe if he was tailing off and nearing retirement then it might be close, but he’s showing no signs of slowing down. He’s going to finish with some pretty solid numbers across the board. Couple that with the fact that he plays in New York, and I don’t think you’d be able to convince enough people to not vote for him.
Edit: I had no idea just how valuable Ben Zobrist was last year. He led the league in WAR at 8.6; man, did he come out of nowhere. I honestly hadn’t followed him much before last year, but were there any indicators before last year that he might be due to bust out?
Making up for some years where he was a ~3.5 WAR player… But the point isn’t to convince people not to vote for him, but rather to build a coalition of people who won’t until Edgar gets in.
Basically politicking in the worst possible way for the best possible reason.
Back in 1979 or 1980 or 1981, I can’t remember which, my best friend went on a cancer walk whose route included First Avenue. Now this was in daylight with a lot of other similar people around. So then we go to Mariners Bat Night. After the game, he talks me into walking First Avenue, at night, without similar people around, carrying baseball bats. (OK, perhaps I should mention we were in junior high.) We’re waiting to cross the street by the doughtnut shop (Grand Central for prostitution) when two guys ask to see our bats. Dave’s guy gave his back. Mine didn’t, walking into the shop and handing it to some bigger dude. Dave’s guy gives me 50 cents and offers to go get it back. We didn’t stop running until we reached the library way to he south ON FOURTH AVENUE.
So yeah, I think MLB discontinued bat night promotions for liability reasons.
I don’t see a turn back the clock night. I thought they did this every year?
You might want to go with wOBA, just for brevity / intelligibility (though technically that belong to Tango, whom Blengino employs).
Which leads me to…
Oh, hell no. That will just bring the smoldering RPN / infix schism into the open again. We’ll have the two factions dueling it out in the stands clad in their tribes’ green eyeshades and eyeglasses repair tape, the one side muttering parenthetical insults, the other Yoda-like mocking. If it gets really ugly, we might run the risk of papercuts. Bat night wouldn’t hold a candle to the embarrassingly ineffectual potted-plant fury of programmable calculator night.
So much win.
Plus, wouldn’t slide rules be considered more appropriate? Perhaps some asthma inhalers would be provided.
Or, maybe we can have “Bill Kruger spreadsheet night”. It will be blank, and largely covered in Grecian Formula.
if Ichiro completes the 2010 season, then retires to become a professional fashion designer, he WILL be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot.
I’m stunned that anyone could look at the voting patterns from the last few years and assert that anyone not named Griffey, Maddux, or Johnson will be elected on the first ballot. It has nothing to do with the merits of Ichiro or anyone else; just that some voters feel it’s their duty to NOT elect players on the first ballot (or second or third).
Henryv:
Single game tickets go on sale in March. Two years ago it was around the 8th, last year I think it was around the 13th. It’s always on a Saturday,and if you sign up for the Mariner emails, you get an advanced sale notice a few days prior to public sale.
How about a “Tickle Me Junior Night.” Tickle Me Elmo Dolls dressed in a 24 jersey. Just a thought.
I would fully support this. But I still have my fingers crossed for RR-S Tyrolean Hat Night.
How about Mike’s Carp Night?
Dave Sims did the radio last night for the Saints game. His comment as the field goal went through was priceless. Something like “This is the best victory in New Orleans since Andrew Jackson in 1814!”
Lo and behold: Dave Sims hat night has now been announced.
(I seriously wonder if anyone reads this, btw.)