Rays Brass Need Reality Check

Everyone knows that baseball in Florida struggles. In fact, it always seems people hate baseball, unless their teams are in the playoffs. The Marlins play in an empty stadium every year, except when they are in the playoffs, then all of a sudden they have fans. The years they won the World Series, the next season, right back to empty stadiums, its flat out sad. Well the Rays have an idea how to change all that, and lets just say its pathetic.

The Rays who struggle to achieve crowds on Friday nights have come up with an idea, and they feel its fantastic. The idea that the Rays have come up with is "baseball nightclub." While writing this article I'm actually pissed how dumb these people are that create these ideas, and yet they still have jobs!!! There are people unemployed out there, brilliant, and very creative, yet they cant get jobs, and people that make dumb ideas, they seem to always keep their jobs, go figure. OK I vented, so you are asking, what are they doing to make this a night club, oh well you asked, I answered, here you go:

First off, women will be handed a T-shirt that says "I Heart Longoria" - Oh ya, I know every night club I have ever been hands out t shirts that say I heart. Ya i know BRILLIANT!

Secondly, indoor fireworks, oh ya baby, you heard me! Fireworks indoors!!! Because that's never been done before, ya took a lot of brilliant minds to think up this idea, oh and this was their response regarding the indoor fire works:

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"We tested it," said Tom Hoof, the Rays' vice president of marketing and community relations. "It's pretty cool. The roof is still on the building

 

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As if those 2 things aren't enough, now after the fireworks, fans can walk onto the field across the stadium to a stadium bar, for an after-party, with live bands and DJs. Ya I know, sign me up!

Can someone explain to me how this resembles a night club? In fact the Rays brass are convinced this will work, they have stated the ballpark is now the place to be on a Friday night. Uhh ya, adding a DJ, fireworks, and a T-shirt is going to draw people to the game rather then heading out to the beach clubs to get drunk and possibly lucky, ya brilliant. The best part, is when you read the comments on readers, of the local paper that posted all this information online, the fans think this is honestly brilliant. And some even blame, the Yankees, Sox, and Philly fans that live in the area, and are convinced they need to switch teams and are ruining it for Tampa. Ya, that's the problem, not a team that's only had like 3 winning seasons in over 10 years, that clearly isn't the problem.

Oh and by the way, this gets better, the commercials, are going to be amazing, according to the Rays that is:

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The high-energy theme is also evident in the team's first 30-second commercial for the season, featuring a music track performed by a drum line as images of players and fans flash on the screen. The spot will air on local stations beginning Tuesday.

More commercials featuring drum line beats will air soon, Hoof said, but the team is going to need the help of local high schools to complete them.

 

 

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Now do I sound like I have hatred for the Rays? Well maybe it sounds that way, but I dont, I just think this is dumb, the idea of fireworks, and T-shirt give aways is nothing new, been around for years. The fact they are calling it a "baseball nightclub" is pathetic, are they all over 60 years old, and they feel that is what a nightclub is? Get someone young in there, tell them what younger audiences want, or again, just an idea, play consistently good baseball for more then 2 years in a row. Fans are still remembering all those years of under .500 baseball, and being the laughing stock of baseball, fans wont go to a baseball game, just to get a t-shirt or fireworks, they want to see a good team on the field consistently. Or hey, maybe now you can get some punk rock kids dressed in black going, so they can see the live bands, ooohhhh, ahhhhhh.