Let me say this as clearly as I can: If these aren’t available at all Major League ballparks by the weekend, then we have failed as a blogging society. This idea is so simple, and so brilliant, that is almost defies logic that I haven’t seen one already. Beer bats. What’s more American than that?? We love baseball. We love ice cold beer, ipso facto we would love to be able to drink ice cold beer out of a baseball bat at a baseball game. It’s like a poem written by Terence Mann.
I also had a chuckle at the Pelicans official Twitter feed having to clarify the in-game promotion that revolved around these beer bats. Initially it was reported that the Pelicans were celebrating $1 beer day by putting it, ‘in these sweet bats.’ So out of the gate, no only did it seem like the Pelicans had found the most perfect beer consumption vehicle, they’re also selling it for only a dollar?? In the words of Lee Corso, not so fast my friends:
We’re doing $1 beers, and selling beer bats. Two separate things. Both good for baseball.
— Myrtle Beach Pelicans (@Pelicanbaseball) May 16, 2021
The Beer Bat being $1 was indeed, too good to be true. I guess the Beer Bats sell for $15, but it looks like a substantial amount of beer you can fit in there. Plus you get to keep the bat, which is likely the last glass you’ll ever need in your life. Double win.
PS: Lindsey and I went out to Myrtle Beach for a wedding about 10 years ago. Very fun area. Also: While we were in Myrtle Beach, while out to dinner one night, I ended up taking a leak next to former Yankees pitcher, David Wells. Looked like he was at a table with a few other former major leaguers, and our bladders just to happened to reach critical mass at the same time. So I rocked a piss next to a guy who once threw a perfect game at Yankee Stadium, and is a multiple time World Series champion. By far the most famous person I’ve ever stood next to at a urinal.
