The Macon Music, a baseball team in the South Coast League, announced a few days ago that its game against the Aiken Foxhounds would be played on Eliot Spitzer Night and—heck, we’ll just quote the team’s Web site:
1. The Music have extended an invitation for former New York Governor Spitzer to be on hand and throw out the first pitch;
2. The team will give away a Washington, DC vacation including a one night stay at the Mayflower Hotel;
3. Client #9 (or fan #9) will receive a free Music prize pack;
4. Any fan with the name Eliot, Spitzer, or “Kristen” along with any fan from New York will receive $1 off admission;
5. The Music will play Frank Sinatra music throughout the evening in honor of New York;
6. Wire Taps will be placed throughout the ballpark this evening;
7. ATMs will be available for cash withdrawals not to exceed $5,000 per hour;
8. Any fan who has resigned their position will be given $1 off admission;
9. The 871 fan will receive a gift certificate for the Macon Music Team store.
Is there a better way to get Dad to take the kids to the ballpark than to dedicate a night to a philandering disgraced politician who was forced to resign after his unseemly behavior was disclosed? Of course not. Plus, if the kids are named Eliot and Kristen, that’s two bucks off admission.
The team’s plan to have an Eliot Spitzer Night has probably attracted more attention than anything else that has ever happened in the South Coast League.
Four days after announcing that Friday, June 13 would be Eliot Spitzer Night, the team began an online poll to let fans decide whether Eliot Spitzer Night should be cancelled.
The voting, as of this minute, is evenly split. Half of the team's fans are in favor of having a Philandering Disgraced Politician Forced To Resign After His Unseemly Behavior Was Disclosed night. Bring the kids.
Will Eliot Spitzer Night at Luther Williams Field happen? We don’t know, because as Yogi Berra said “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” (That quotation is attributed to Yogi. We don’t know if he actually said it—some quotations are incorrectly attributed to Yogi and we imagine that Yogi might say that “if I said it, I didn’t say it”—but we like it anyway.)
