Thursday, May 15, 2008

Minor league baseball team offers a prize to die for

GRAND prairie — The Thousand Prairie AirHogs minor conference baseball game squad will present a award no 1 will be eager to hard cash in on right away.

The minor conference baseball game squad will present a funeral to a fan during its June 3 game, portion of a publicity squad functionaries have got dubbed "All Hogs Travel to Heaven." The funeral expenses, valued at $10,000, will cover a casket, headstone, services and a plot.

The gross sales director of the graveyard participating in the publicity said the award's termination day of the month is the same as the winner's.

"If you're 20 and you acquire it and you dwell to be 90, of course of study we'll still honour it," Oak Grove Memorial Gardens gross sales director Bokkos Alexanders told The Dallas Morning News.

The AirHogs, new members of the American Association of Mugwump Baseball, have got other promotional dohickeys to entice fans: a pre-game kite giveaway and an unscheduled Jessica Mrs. Simpson Appreciation Night. Many Dallas Cowboys fans see the vocalist to have got jinxed the squad through her romanticist human relationship with signal caller Tony Romo.

"Unfortunately, when they lost the playoff game, everyone said she's bad luck," squad frailty president Dave Edmund Burke told the newspaper. "I desire to turn out she's not bad luck. I'm going to vouch a triumph that day. If we make lose, (fans) acquire a ticket to any hereafter AirHogs game."

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