Hey listen, I’m not one to loosely throw around the term “discriminatory” or “racist”, but I’ll be damned if the Phillies aren’t openly mocking my nationality on Friday, July 24th against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Personally, I probably never would have even noticed it, because, let’s face it, I’m not too bright. But thankfully there are more intelligent people on the internet who can spot such a travesty and bring it to light. Today, that such person is Blister Keaton, proprietor of the blog Ahhhh, Phooey!.
What Blister discovered when he went to Phillies.com to order tickets was DISTURBING.
Ever since the great Spider Man 2 base advertising debacle of aught-four, MLB has taken whatever summer movie that needs advertising the most and proudly displayed it on the schedule portion of each team’s home page. This year, that shitty movie is the David Wright-approved G-Force.
Here’s a screen shot from Phillies.com featuring the advert (click to enlarge):
On the surface it seems innocent enough. A dumb Disney movie about guinea pigs being forced upon possible ticket-buyers by Major League Baseball. Harmless, right?
WRONG!
Why don’t we delve a little deeper and click the asterisk on said date:
OUTRAGE!!!
Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the Phillies are holding Italian Heritage Night on the same date that a movie comes out about talking GUINEA pigs?
Did the Phillies just call me a fucking guinea? I think so.
Well I’m not gonna stand for that shit. So, to protest, I am LEAVING PHILADELPHIA for the entire weekend and heading to Boston to catch a Red Sox game at Fenway. And NO, I did not have this trip planned months in advance with special discounted $69 one-way fares to and from Providence, RI courtesy of Southwest Airlines, thankyouverymuch.
It’s a genuine, spur-of-the-moment protest to stand up for what I believe in. And what I believe in is NOT being referred to as a guinea by my favorite team.
Sincerely,
meech.one
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July 22nd, 2009 at 2:14 pm
And on that date, every fan in attendance 16 years and older gets a free set of Italian Tires: dego in the rain, dego in the snow, and when they get flat they go wop, wop, wop.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
hahahahahahha. I’m insulted!
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
And on that date, every fan in attendance 16 years and older gets a free set of Italian Tires: dego in the rain, dego in the snow, and when they get flat they go wop, wop, wop.
Everyone click this after reading this joke!!!
http://www.pacdudegames.com/fail/
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
HAHAHAHAH! That’s awesome! I wish MLB would’ve done an “Operation Valkyrie” promotion on German Heritage Day. This way I could be offended. LOL!
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Honestly, as a man of Italian heritage, I’ve seen a hell of a lot worse.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Years ago, they had Dollar Dog Night on the same night as Gay Pride Night. This isn’t as bad to me, somehow…
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I prefer the slang wop. I’m Italian so it’s OK if I say it.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
omfg thier musta been a lot of dogs between buns that night.Oh well they will probably plug the movie “Hangover” for Irish night
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
hey Meech did ya hear about the ginny who was so lazy he married a pregnant woman ,
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I chortled at the tag.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Well, I only heard about it because all these Gay Phillies fans were upset about getting Todd Jones, who likes to spout his mouth about what other people should do behind closed doors. The first thing I thought was, “Well, throw a bunch of weiners at the guy!”
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I would like to garrote anyone who uses the word chortled.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
@Civil Negligence
Hilarious.
@everyone else
not hilarious.
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Did anybody else notice that Jewish Heritage Night reads “Jewish Hertiage Phanatic Value Night”?
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Heyyyyy, fuggedaboutit!
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Wait, they have a value ticket night the same night as Jewish Heritage night? Who’s not paying attention to this stuff at the Phillies Promotions Dept? Shenk should be very dissapointed with what happened after he left…
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
‘ey Copernicus, why don’t ya navigate yaself to the back of the line with ya feet n stand there with ya shert
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I’m going on Friday night. I’m going to dress up like super mario and throw spaghetti at people.
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
@meech-please make sure you find that shot if they show it on tv-Mario with his spaghetti. You should also call everyone a Goomba.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
@ Watrick – Kid you not.
http://mlb.mlb.com/phi/ticketing/group_pvd.jsp
August 20th is a “Phanatic Value Date”
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I can’t wait until the game recap, so here’s what I think of Cub fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv23pqH9iG0
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
When I was a boy, I told my grandfather I wanted a Guinea Pig.
He said “why, don’t you want to marry a nice girl?”
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:28 pm
I hate Italians. I will go to this game.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 pm
WOP there it iiiiss
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:26 pm
@ will.H Is it ‘93 all over again?
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
93 was WHOOOP,
WOP is the discriminatory version. say it outloud
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 am
‘93 was WHOOMP. Tsk.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 am
hey Meech, enjoy the game in Boston.
I’m a diehard Phils fan, but living in Boston and attending many a Sox game I feel that there’s no better place to enjoy a baseball game than Fenway. Walking into the park, making your way through the catacombs under the stadium, and then emerging into the daylight feels like you’re walking back in time. Make sure to hit up the pre-game festivities out on the streets around Fenway. Personally I love the Boston Beer Works. Also, look out for the fun but awkward Sweet Caroline sing-a-long in the 8th inning break, my Philly-native dad was thrown for a loop with that one, though it could’ve been the fact that the Red Sox were up 7-2 on the Phils at that point.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:15 am
Fenway truly is beautiful.
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
The original plan was to honor Judge WOPner before the game.
Also I went to 1 game at Shea (fuckin dump it was) and it happened to be on Jewish celebration night. The giveaway was supposed to be a phone card but the sponsor backed out at the last minute. The sponsor? A German owned cell phone warehouse.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:14 am
hey meech, go get your shinebox
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
The Phillies had designated July 24 Italian Heritage Night months before the whole G-Force promo, but it’s still hilarious
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Adding insult to injury, Irish Heritage Night is on Jason Michaels Commemorative Barf Bag giveaway night.