Pepsi is trying a different route now and giving away tickets over the air through a partnership with a local radio station.
"Pepsi Promotion Ends With Chants of 'Pepsi Sucks'" (Thanks to Nick!)
]]>I should know, I am one.
google "The Angryville Chronicles" and read the piece that deadspin did about philly fan stories. The eagles by far have the best fans, and we show it by destroying everything we can.
]]>I think all of those people should be arrested for protesting without a permit and the ones who threw Pepsi cans on the ground should be given tickets for littering.
I mean come on people, like you don't litter enough as it is!
Btw, I'm completely serious.
]]>Now personally, I am a fan of a NL team so I don't closely follow either the Yankees or the Red Sox during the season, although the Yankees' checkbook-busting spending makes the news so I hear about it more often. I do find it ironic that the two biggest spending teams are.. wait for it!.. both in New York. The city of shortcuts.
]]>Pepsi sucks as a soft drink anyways, so who the hell truely cares.
]]>/not a yankees fan...and also not a sox fan
]]>"You didn't give us enough free stuff!"
My policy: If you really want something, you should be willing to pay for it.
]]>Browns fans chuck bottles at refs, White Sox fans attack 1st base umps, but we throw a few snowball at a bad Santa and we get the bad rep?
I call bullshit.
]]>ANnnnd I rest my case as to the nature of Yankee fans.
]]>@snowburnt:
We're glad you feel that way. Now don't come into our house rooting for the other team!
...brought to you by the 'New Coke' school of advertising.
]]>@Crabby Cakes: I recall reading that the tickets were for June 1. I don't recall reading that opening day tickets were promised (although if they were, then yeah, people are gonna be a little upset). But I am thinking one of threee things happened:
1. People assumed it was for opening day and they weren't.
2. They were promised opening day tickets but didn't tell fans that only x number of tickets would be available, thereby generating a large number of fans who wanted to get in.
3. They promised opening day tickets and did say that x number of tickets would be availble and people showed up hoping they'd be one of those "x number." Of course, in this scenario, way more than x showed up.
There might be some other reason too, but my brain hurts from trying to think of them.
]]>You're annoying, but at least you're consistent.
]]>Go Red Sox!
]]>One woman gets really indignant for the camera, asking, "How do you do this big show, use us in the media circus as ponies..."OMG! Ponies! :p
If you can manage to get through the terrible user-interaction-required ad at the start of the embedded video...That's something I haven't seen before.]]>
Pepsi Guy: Hey, let's give some tickets away.
Pepsi Woman: That's a great idea! How many tickets should we bring?
Pepsi Guy: I don't know, we'll keep it kind of small and spontaneous. Maybe a couple hundred?
(The next day)
Pepsi Guy: Where's the rest of the tickets?
Pepsi Guy 2: Corporate only gave me a 50.
1) Eagles
2) Flyers
3) Raiders
All of which I'd rank above the Yankees.
//Brotherly love my arse.
]]>Ha ha ha yeah, heard the Yankees suck chant at a Metallica concert at Gillette Stadium.
]]>Translation of protests:
"They PROMISED! Waaa! How DARE they not give me stuff I didn't pay for! I didn't get free stuff. WAA!"
@Jim Topoleski: As others pointed out in the discussions on the post about the obstructed view seats in the new Yankee Stadium, Boston fans (I'm thinking of the riots that occur when one of their sports teams wins a championship) and Philadelphia Eagles fans are worse.
@pecan 3.14159265: The Yankees are one of the few teams that haven't significantly redesigned their uniforms to change with the times.
]]>@jonthomasdesigns: Yeah! WHITE SOX!! ;-)
]]>The worst part about this is that the Yankees can't sell their uber-expensive seats so there's just sections of the new place that are just EMPTY while the rest is packed-out.
Hal and Hank gotta change that, STAT.
]]>Pepsi ended up giving away 500 tickets on WFAN on Friday. Which would have been all well and good, but part of the promotion was directly against the Yankees game that started at 1 and was over around 4:30 ish. But it was worth it to hear Mike Francesa make mea culpa statements on behalf of Pepsi.
]]>@Darklighter: I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of 26 fake championships.
]]>Seriously if there is a group of fans you dont want to piss off, its them. I know whole marriages in this area who have fallen apart based soly on the hero worship of this team. Its why I hate watching baseball actually because in this area its just not worth it to get involved between mets and yankee fans.
]]>Go Sox : )
]]>I really liked this quote from the New York Post article:
"We ended up getting a huge crowd," said Pepsi spokeswoman Nicole Bradley. "We did our best. We only had so many tickets to give away."
I just love that some Pepsi spokespeople are acting like the crowd was somehow unexpected. Doesn't PR usually involve some form of research? In this case, the research would be pretty easy since you'd only need to ask anyone who has heard of the Yankees about what the size of the crowd might be.
]]>(Not really blaming them. But I'll take any chance I get to make fun of Yankees fans and their fake baseball.)
]]>Next up: Coke behind Pepsi's free ticket giveaway.
]]>* The "do in private else face charges" kind, not the "wear tri-cornered hat while hurling spit-flecked nonsense invectives" kind.
]]>Boy, those New York HFCS haters really hate Pepsi!
(OK, I'm done now.)
]]>One for me, one for my dead homeboy.
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