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DEL.ICIO.USMinor league baseball: Where the shameless offender can mingle with shameless promoters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s the humiliation of standing before a bank of national TV cameras, with your chagrined wife at your side. And then there’s the real stuff.
The middle Georgia minor league baseball team known as the Macon Music has announced that June 13 will be “Elliot Spitzer” night, in honor of the disgraced governor of New York who resigned on Wednesday after he was caught on a wiretap arranging for high-priced call girls.
According to the Macon Telegraph, Spitzer will be invited to throw out the first pitch. Other alleged inducements for fans:
- The Music will give away a trip to New York and a one-night stay at the Mayflower Hotel.
The ninth fan - or Client No. 9, as Spitzer was known in the prostitution ring - into the ballpark will receive a free Music prize pack.
Fans with the name Eliot, Spitzer or Kristen, along with any fan from New York, will receive $1 off admission. Any fan who has ever resigned a position will also receive $1 off admission.
From what we can tell, this is kind of like being awarded an honorary coat of tar and feathers.
Comments
By Pulpwood Smith
March 13, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this
Sending a fan to New York for a night at the Mayflower should be interesting, as the Mayflower Hotel is in Washington DC.
By don
March 13, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this
You make an excellent point Pulpwood… excellent point….
By morganna the kissing bandit
March 13, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this
count me in or on
By discerning
March 14, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
‘Shameless’ is a bit tame for such a production. Might I suggest: ‘abomination’ might prove a better word choice. If allowed to proceed, this deed will not go unpunished and the City of Macon will hang is collective head in shame selah