Every city has a collection of infamous stadium vendors.
Most of the "creative" vendor types are ear-piercingly annoying after the first few innings, but truth be told, if a grown adult can find solace in being slightly entertaining while selling Pink Lemonade Squishies and wearing some goofy mascot abomination on their head; so be it. We admire inventiveness and originality, but there are only so many ways to peddle overpriced food and refreshments.
That's why we toss creativity aside and admire raw stadium vendor talent.
Holding a solid "Buuuuuud Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiight" note for over 20 seconds?
Pretty impressive, man.
Side Note: On Episode 22 of our weekly podcast, we talked about stadium vendors with a couple of Yahoo!s - namely, JE Skeets and Eamonn Brennan. You can give it a listen by clicking....right....here.
Most of the "creative" vendor types are ear-piercingly annoying after the first few innings, but truth be told, if a grown adult can find solace in being slightly entertaining while selling Pink Lemonade Squishies and wearing some goofy mascot abomination on their head; so be it. We admire inventiveness and originality, but there are only so many ways to peddle overpriced food and refreshments.
That's why we toss creativity aside and admire raw stadium vendor talent.
Holding a solid "Buuuuuud Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiight" note for over 20 seconds?
Pretty impressive, man.
Side Note: On Episode 22 of our weekly podcast, we talked about stadium vendors with a couple of Yahoo!s - namely, JE Skeets and Eamonn Brennan. You can give it a listen by clicking....right....here.
Dave, August 5, 2009 10:08 PM
There is a guy at wrigley who gives out baseball cards when you buy a beer. There is nothing better than drinking a cold one and admiring your newly aquired Kelly Gruber
cmutartan, August 5, 2009 08:08 AM
the lemonade guy at PNC who screams "Lemonadeheeeee!!!" is my personal favorite
GimmicksSuck, August 4, 2009 09:08 PM
This guy is a phony. He's terrible. Having to listen to him do this 25 times a night is the only miserable part of having season tickets. Just sell your damn beer.
nortonhk, August 4, 2009 03:08 PM
there's a guy a u.s. cellular field that sings jingles.....he's good!!
T, August 4, 2009 03:08 PM
As a Cardinal's fan and season ticket holder, I am proud to see him on here. See him every game and it never gets old!
sam, August 4, 2009 02:08 PM
pretty good but the columbus clippers (AAA) have one vendor that talks, rymes, sings in all different accents
Narco, August 4, 2009 01:08 PM
Gotta go under on the teeth. Nothing surviving in that mouth can be considered a tooth. A fang, perhaps, but not a tooth
Gregory, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
I'll take the under on "number of teeth". No doubter.
Jays Fan, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
I can confirm the 'Ice Cold Beer' guy... he was phenominal
EvoSero, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
There was a great guy at Skydome (Toronto) who you could here from the 500s (he was in the 100s).His call was "Iiiiicee.... Cooooollld... Beeeeeeer".He ended up getting fired for not carding a 25 yo, as he is supposed to card literally everyone, apparently. Sad.
Sebek, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
el jefe - thanks for the suggestion. Will make sure to do that ASAP, and will include it on the next podcast publication (Thursday afternoon).
el jefe, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
On the sidenote, is there any way you can post the weekly podcasts on Zune Marketplace for download. If Simmons can do it, so can you guys. I understand that his technical guy is probably on roids.
Steve, August 4, 2009 12:08 PM
Damn, if the over/under is at 4, that might be a push.
Sebek, August 4, 2009 11:08 AM
If we set the over/under on "number of teeth" at 4, what are you taking?
Jason, August 4, 2009 10:08 AM
Check out the people in the background, looking around wondering, 'What the hell is going on?'
Johnny, August 4, 2009 10:08 AM
Love the close up of the rotted out mouth.
Fresh Jive, August 4, 2009 09:08 AM
Granted, the Texas Rangers are an awful franchise, but they used to have a vendor that worked the cheap seats who did something similar to this. He was a hot-dog slinger, and would hold "hot" for a real long time. But he had a much more gutteral/throaty voice. Does this type exist at every ballpark?
John Butcher
Though it's been kept hush-hush, various sources inside Major League Baseball still maintain John Butcher removed his face during the second half of a day/night doubleheader revealing himself as the alien 'Vubar Poshka from the Orpho Continuum'. There were several deaths involved.
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