By Greg Wyshynski

Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer: The one zero one Worst principles in activities History chronicles activities' such a lot notorious occasions, ill-fated principles and unlucky developments. Glow Pucks and 10-Cent Beer deals hilarious essays and well-researched arguments that take on foolish activities phenomena (Bad notion #101. Hulk Hogan, Thespian: "Eat your middle out, Meryl Streep!") whereas tough many of the activities world's so much respected traditions (Bad inspiration #5 The Bronze Medal: "A trinket whose purely goal is to remind athletes that they are towards fourth position than they're to first place.").
Rating his entries based on how egregious, embarrassing and harmful the occasions have been to the events concerned; how idiotic the criteria have been at the back of their disasters; and principally else, whether or not they have been an instantaneous insult to the history of the activities themselves, Wyshynski goals to spark debate in regards to the such a lot debatable moments and concerns in activities historical past.

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They booed and bombarded the mascot with various projectiles before, during, and after the game. Crazy Crab fans rally to bring the hated mascot back at Crustacean Commotion, held July 9, 2005, in San Francisco. com) According to the Giants’ official website, the actor playing the Crazy Crab had a legitimate fear that a fan might fire a gun at him from the stands in the team’s final home game of the season. No word if the Crab was equally panicky about a fan smuggling in a vat of melted butter.

Everybody knows he was good at the beginning but he just went too far,” she told ESPN. Oops. That was bad. Even worse, she had taken her notorious cost cutting (Marge used to recycle office supplies) to new heights—she dumped the out-of-town scoreboard at Riverfront Stadium to save $350 a month. The baseball people had heard and seen enough. They took away day-today operation of the Reds from her for two years beginning in 1996. By 1999, she sold her controlling interest in the Reds for $67 million.

Burrell used his baseball moxie to embark on a music career, eventually taking up the moniker M. C. Hammer and selling millions of records by sampling an old Rick James song about freaky girls. Among the gimmicks that Finley used to lure fans to the ballpark were Bald-Head Night, in which follicly challenged fans got half-priced tickets; Mustache Day, in which the follicly blessed received free admission; Farmer’s Night, complete with pregame pig chases; and Hot-Pants Day, where ladies wearing the sexy duds were given free admission and permitted to participate in a pregame fashion-show parade.

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