We gotta hand it to the marketing strategists who work for the St. Paul Saints minor league baseball team.
They recently gave out 2500 bizarre promos that obviously poke fun at Senator Larry Craig and his dubious tap with the rest room police last year. For more on the zany, but effective Bobble-feet promotion, go to their website.
Sales for the item on Ebay Auctions have been brisk - selling for around $75 bucks and higher!
Considering the fact that a member of the Saints marketing team is Mike Veeck, son of legendary major league promoter Bill Veeck, and comedian Bill Murray is part-owner of the team – we can see how an idea like this came to fruition.
Tasteful idea or not - our stance - the promotion sold the little known minor league team out the night of the giveaway, and gained tremendous media attention.
Verdict: Great to see an organization step out of the box a bit, and induce some inventive ideas into a game that essentially has been the same for over a 100 years.
And we gotta admit, we wouldn’t mind one of these to put next to our Dwight!
