Thursday, July 9, 2009

Brooklyn Cyclones Promotions

Last week me and a bunch of my friends went to the see our local minor league baseball team, the Brooklyn Cyclones (New York Met affiliate!). Nice, cheap, cozy alternative form of baseball to combat the expensiveness of the majors.

One nice thing that the Cyclones decided to do that day was if you bought a Field Box ticket ($15 - the most expensive tickets available) you would get a voucher for one hot dog, one soda and a bag of chips. Thanks Cyclones, really nice of you. So I went and looked at the ticket I had bought - Field Box! Oh yeah!, free hot dog time (or actually 2 free hot dogs since my wife doesn't like hot dogs). I'm sure what will happen is when we go to the game, we'll just show them our tickets, and then they will give us each the voucher we deserve.

Dead wrong.

I called up the Cyclones box office just to make sure this is how things would work. What they told me made me want to punch someone in the face through the phone. Apparently, since we had bought our tickets before the season even started, we weren't eligible for these vouchers. So, basically we were getting penalized for being fans of the Cyclones and being excited about seeing them by planning a night in advance to go to a game. How is this possible? Why would I then buy tickets in advance when I know there's a chance I'm passing up some type of free gift. Big mistake Cyclones, I won't soon forget this.

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Brooklyn Brewery's Free Tour

Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of the Brooklyn Brewery - but it used to be way cooler. Once upon a time you would show up on a Saturday, be able to go into the tour which took about 20 or so minutes, then they would give you some tokens for a couple of FREE beers that you could enjoy for making the pilgrimage into fucktown Williamsburg. Once upon a time was like three years ago. Now all of that is gone and drowned by hipster assholes. They can't give us free beer tokens anymore because there's too many of you fucks. So now you can go for a free tour of one room and when you're done just stand on a line, buy tokens, then stand on another line to pick up your beers.
Brooklyn Brewery free tour costs time and energy.