Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be a marketing intern for a minor league club. It has to be one of the best gigs in all of sports. I imagine these cats sitting around in a hot-boxed room, crushing beers and bouncing ideas off each other until BOOM! the perfect promotion comes up. Ghostbusters Night, Thirsty Thursdays, Whiffle Ball Wednesdays … and Back Hair Appreciation Night.Yup, on Thursday evening the Bowie Baysox, AA affiliate to the Baltimore Orioles, held Back Hair Appreciation Night. Just some hairy dudes getting their wax on in late July. What kind of drunkenly sadistic brain trust comes up with such a concept?
Tonight is back hair appreciation night and yes, Robert Andrew spas did wax 4 hairy backs live on the dugout pic.twitter.com/v2YpKFDeuW
— Bowie Baysox (@BowieBaysox) July 30, 2015
Last night, the @BowieBaysox had Back Hair Appreciation Night, local spa gave free waxes to fans pic.twitter.com/GnPWSeGH57
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 31, 2015
Some fans got their backs waxed during tonight’s @BowieBaysox game: http://t.co/I7TQJKpY1u pic.twitter.com/5JW4duWLGo
— Cut4 (@Cut4) July 31, 2015
I’m still not sure how waxing shows any type of appreciation for back hair. Seems to me like a complete lack of regard for body hair, seeing as how they’re ripping it from those savage mammals atop the dugout. Appreciation would include some nice-smelling ointments and oils to massage into the hair, maybe a light grooming and a blow dry afterward. Instead, dude is walking out looking like the 40 Year Old Virgin.
Back Hair Appreciation @BowieBaysox featured LIVE Back Waxing on the dugout tonight! #HairyBacks @MiLBPromos pic.twitter.com/QOQ54gzu6I
— Philip Wrye (@PhilWrye) July 31, 2015
Speaking of …
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