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Our neighbors to the North have released their 2014 Promotion Schedule. It’s not exactly old hat for them; I remember when they used to say “only season ticket holders get giveaways” and then there were only about five of them per season. No more. The RailRiders have a downright IronPig-esque schedule with some interesting ideas:

They have “Friday Fireworks”
Sunday Family FunDay: Autographs pre-game and kiddos run the bases post-game
$1 Hot Dog Mondays every Monday
25 years of baseball in Moosic with all-timer statue giveaways and special and throwback Jerseys all season long
Drug and Alcohol Abuse Awareness Wednesday
Thirsty Thursdays every Thursday (Budweiser and Pepsi products $1 for two hours after gates open–not as cool as you think–they ran out of beer one time last season)
(OK, that Wed/Thurs combo only happens once, but I found it ironic)
Bark in the Park Days
T-Shirt Tuesdays: Every Tuesday is Free T-Shirt Day
Kids Eat Free Wednesdays (every Wednesday; this is real)

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Here are the promos for the games where they host our IronPigs:

Friday 4/18: Duck Dynasty’s “Mountain Man” visits

Saturday 4/19: Zuber statuette giveaway

Sunday 4/20: Easter Egg Hunt and Candy Drop

Monday 4/21: Dollar Dog Night

Monday 6/30: Dollar Dog Night

Sunday 8/31: Toothbrush Holder (What is this? Reading?)

Monday 9/1: Fan Appreciation Day (Labor Day, final game of the regular season)

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Here are two other nights that caught my eye:

Thursday 6/5 (ironpigs are home that night): Throwback Night; play as Red Barons again

Friday 8/8: What Could Have Been: play as Trolley Frogs that night

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TShirt likeness from SWBRailRiders.com

Oh, did you notice I missed a day? Yup. This. Tuesday TShirt Day July 1. 7:05PM First 1,500 Fans.

Are we gonna take this? Sure, they’ve got the IronRail for one year. And, they’ve got a Hall-of-Fame Manager. Well, International League-HoF, not the real HoF like Ryne Sandbereg, but that cat’s still pretty good.

But really? It’s a cheap shot. We must retaliate. Our suggestions are below:

1,500 of us go up there and get in line early. We’ll get all the shirts. Then what happens, happens.
New urinal game for 2014: Kill the Porcupines (Remember, we have urinal games. They don’t.)
We’ll go up for the game and bring 1,500 of our own TShirts and give them out once the first 1500 are gone.
Our TShirts will read: “Friends Don’t Let Friends Wear Silly T-Shirts”
Or: “You Know You’re Good When The Other Team is Giving Away T-Shirts With Your Logo On Them”
Or: “635,000 >> 435,000. You do need friends”
Or: “You know you’re not the REAL Yankees, right?”
We’ll bring flags, banners and bells and take over their outfield area–maybe even the return of the oinK sign.
We’ll show up in our IronPigs jerseys, stand outside the gate with a sign reading, “Please Be Our Friends.”
Wear the T-Shirt to Coca Cola Park and get a free ticket voucher (would require help from IronPigs)
Come to a game with the T-Shirt on and receive a free IronPigs jersey-shirt (nicer than a cheap T-Shirt).