Minor league team tries exploiting Roger Clemens

March 19th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

If there’s one thing you can count on minor league baseball teams for, it’s their wacky and wild promotions. (Wear your superman costume to ballpark night! Britney Spears night! Beat your wife and children night!) When you are starving for fans, this all makes sense. If the product on the field isn’t reeling them in, surely some zany promotional stunt will. (I’ve just used the words “wacky,” “wild” and “zany” in this post. Great success.)

So it should come as no surprise to anyone that the Huntsville Stars are coming after Roger Clemens. To be their mascot. (Via Fark.)

Stars’ officials said with the upcoming introduction of the new Orion/ARES rocket and the Stars’ new logo, which prominently features a rocket, the team feels the introduction of ‘Rocket’ as the Stars’ new mascot makes perfect sense.

If he accepts the offer, Clemens, as ‘Rocket,’ would dress as an astronaut and interact with fans and assist in on-field promotions during the team’s 70-game home schedule when Homer the Polecat is not available.

“Clemens is a small town guy, and he’d fit in great in Huntsville,” said Stars General Manager Buck Rogers. “The Huntsville/Madison County community has been great to me in my first few weeks here, and I’m sure they’ll accept Clemens too.”

Rogers said that Clemens’ contract in Huntsville might not be as lucrative as his former Major League contracts, but it would contain incentives.

In addition to his $25 per game salary, he would receive meal vouchers redeemable at the concession stands for one hotdog and one soft drink each night, and a 15 percent employee discount at our team’s souvenir store, The Backstop Shop.

What are the odds of someone filling out a perfect bracket for the NCAA tournament? One in 7.2 trillion? Pretty similar odds of Clemens actually doing this. But hey, free hot dogs? Count me in.