The Yankees Announce They're Serving Personalized Player Beers During Games This Year, MLB Gets Wind Of It And Completely Shuts It Down
Oh well! I for one find this hilarious that the Yankees are claiming in today’s Newsweek article that they had no idea about any of this and were simply testing the image machine at an event.
“We were unaware, [of the images],” a spokesman for MLB was quoted as saying by Newsday. “We spoke to the club, the club wasn’t aware, either. To the best of our knowledge, they have told them it’s not authorized, to cease doing it.’’
“Our hospitality team took Monday’s event as an opportunity to test the image machine with various Yankees-related logos and photos,” a Yankees spokesperson said, as reported by ESPN. “However, the Yankees have no current plans of incorporating this decorative element on concessions items this season.”
Kind of a bad look to say you don’t know everything that’s going on within your organization. I mean they tweeted it off of their main account.
Now we’re talking about personalized beers here, not insider trading like the Cardinals so let’s relax Carrabis.
Your quest to suspend the Yankees in hopes they won’t take the AL East title from your little arms continues. Best of luck though.
What’s bizarre here is MLB’s rule about not allowing active players to endorse alcoholic products. I mean there’s literally three baseball stadiums that are named after beers: Coors, Miller, and Busch. Not that I really care about them disallowing this personalized beer thing because I’d never buy it since it probably would cost $20, but that whole rule is weird.
Full disclosure, I actually don’t understand how this kind of stuff happens in terms of personalized designs in drinks. When I see coffee shops offer cool designs in their drinks I’m simply dumbfounded by it. For me and my small brain, it’s right up there with modern day mysteries like how do gigantic cruise ships float or how do helicopters stay on the ground while their rotors spins a million miles an hour. I’m drinking a liquid, how is there a floating design in a liquid? That’s some witchcraft I don’t need to know about.
One more day until Toronto. This will be the longest 24 hours of my life.
P.S. I NEED that General Tso crispy chicken sandwich ASAP.