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Hourglass Appreciation Night

Guys...get your tickets now!

 
 

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June 3, 2017 3:11 AM ET

 

Who says baseball is too slow? It's the timeless nature of America's Pastime that connects generations like nothing else.

 

As such, the Ogden Raptors are proud to celebrate the great 'Sport Sans Clock' with Hourglass Appreciation Night on Friday 11 August 2017 at Lindquist Field.

 

The home team hosts the Billings Mustangs, but the real thoroughbreds will join Raptors broadcaster A.P. Harreld in the booth. Since August is the eighth month of the calendar year, and an 8 looks tantalizingly similar to an hourglass, be there a better way to remind the world that baseball needs no clock than to feature 18 hourglass-shaped color commentators?

 

That's right! Stars Talent Studio of Salt Lake City will provide a different stunner each half-inning. And the Raptors will video-stream the broadcast booth - well, at least the better-looking half of it!

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Fans will have the opportunity to pose for pictures with the lovely ladies as we showcase seriously splendid visual appeal: Utah's legendary mountains, Dodgers and Reds farmhands - and gorgeous women whose curves rival those of any stud pitching prospect!

 

On Saturday, the Ogden Raptors of the Pioneer League (a Los Angeles Dodgers’ farm team at the advanced rookie ball level) came up with a “Hourglass Appreciation Night” that would feature 18 different female color commentators selected for their “hourglass shape.” They wrote “Be there a better way to remind the world that baseball needs no clock than to feature 18 hourglass-shaped color commentators? That’s right! Stars Talent Studio of Salt Lake City will provide a different stunner each half-inning. And the Raptors will video-stream the broadcast booth – well, at least the better-looking half of it!”

That promotion didn’t get a ton of attention until Monday, when a bunch of outlets wrote it up (including NBC’s Hardball TalkSports Illustrated, and The Salt Lake Tribune), and the blowback was swift. The team has since removed the promotion from their website.

 

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What do you think did the Raptors go too far in their promotion or is everyone just overreacting a bit?

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7 hours ago, Setyoureyesontheprize said:

Fans will have the opportunity to pose for pictures with the lovely ladies as we showcase seriously splendid visual appeal

It wasn't until this part that I realized they were referring to woman and not actual hourglass mascots-_-

 

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Pretty obvious promotion aimed at trying to pull in some more male viewers. Do they have a similar promotion with men selected for their V shape? A little too transparent a promotion for me - and I love celebrating women's beauty, but why not celebrate their intelligence, personality and other forms of worth beyond the fact that their top and bottom halves are wider than their middles.

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