{"id":1465,"date":"2008-05-24T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/a-baseball-bobblefoot\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T02:29:00","slug":"a-baseball-bobblefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/a-baseball-bobblefoot\/","title":{"rendered":"A Baseball Bobblefoot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/1bobble-795901.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/nicole\/uploaded_images\/1bobble-795897.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tribute to one of the most famous and notorious American statesmen, Republican Senator Larry Craig, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/saintsbaseball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Paul Saints baseball club<\/a>\u00a0(an independent club that plays in the American Association), has devised one of the most creative game day giveaways that I have ever seen: a mini bathroom stall with a pair of legs and feet&#8230;one of which is rigged to tap.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintsbaseball.com\/news\/saintsnews\/index.html?article_id=782\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>\u00a0issued by the Saint&#8217;s organization states that 2500 lucky fans will received these &#8220;bobblefoot&#8221; knickknacks in honor of &#8220;National Tap Dance Day.&#8221;  Yet, the press release goes on to say that &#8220;it doesn\u2019t matter if your tapping style is done with a \u201cwide stance\u201d or is used as some sort of code&#8230;tap to their heart\u2019s content on May 25.&#8221;   So, the organization never &#8220;really&#8221; references Larry Craig in the same way that Larry Craig never &#8220;really&#8221;  wanted sex from that undercover police officer.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Yeah yeah<\/span>&#8230;we get it. <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wink Wink. Nudge Nudge<\/span>&#8230;Its all about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larry_Craig\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Larry Craig<\/a> and his soliciting sex in the bathroom stall at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.   Of course, this resulted in a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct and total political ruin for Mr. Craig.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">What&#8217;s one man&#8217;s personal and political tragedy is many <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"\">fans&#8217;<\/span> gain on game day.  Not only is this one of the Saint&#8217;s most popular promotions, but the bobblefoot is\u00a0designed with a sales ad on the stall reading, &#8220;for a good time call 651-644-6659.&#8221; \u00a0The number brings you to the ticket sales office where sales are definitely up. \u00a0As I mentioned, this is one of the most creative, and might I add, pain-free, promotions that I have seen in quite a while.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Recently, I stumbled upon on doozy of a freebie: Free <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2007\/05\/odd_baseball_pr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers tickets<\/a> for fans who receive a rectal exam at the stadium. (I will save you the picture from this promotion). \u00a0Sure, this was all in honor prostate health but  <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">come <\/span>on&#8230;is that really going to get fans to the game or keep them away? For the average fan&#8230;I can guess the answer. \u00a0For Larry Craig? Who is to say?\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tribute to one of the most famous and notorious American statesmen, Republican Senator Larry Craig, the\u00a0St. Paul Saints baseball club\u00a0(an independent club that plays in the American Association), has devised one of the most creative game day giveaways that I have ever seen: a mini bathroom stall with a pair of legs and feet&#8230;one of which is rigged to tap.<\/p>\n<p>The   press release\u00a0issued by the Saint&#8217;s organization states that 2500 lucky fans will received these &#8220;bobblefoot&#8221; knickknacks in honor of &#8220;National Tap Dance Day.&#8221;  Yet, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}