Return of bullpen carts?

[Benjamin Grimm]

If they do restore the carts, they need to omit the lips and the creepy baseball glove eyes. What would Helene Lazar think?

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: If they do restore the carts, they need to omit the lips and the creepy baseball glove eyes. What would Helene Lazar think?

....not to mention the "Josh Satin Eyebrows".

[Guest 41Forever]

That Abbey Road cover is stupendous!!!!!

[Zvon]

41Forever wrote: That Abbey Road cover is stupendous!!!!!

Thank you sir.
Everything that goes around, comes around. These are oldies but goodies.

[Guest 41Forever]

OMG, is that Woodstock?

[Zvon]

41Forever wrote: OMG, is that Woodstock?

Hellzyea!
These are from some old thread.

That old cart got around. It had its very own adventures.

Don't get me started, lol.

[Zvon]

Check out this bullpen cart.
Boat.
Thing.




I do like that it's a fire boat.

[dgwphotography]

Unfortunately, it will probably look more like this...

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[Guest cooby]

Woodstock one!!!
We should vote on these.

[Zvon]

dgwphotography wrote: Unfortunately, it will probably look more like this... [attachment=0]bullpen-cart.jpg[/attachment]

If it's one sponser, I'll let it slide as long as they don't put a garish marking on the cart. Any more than one ad and I'll be averting my eyes whenever the cart appears.

Great job on that cart^!

[Guest 41Forever]

http://www.mlive.com/sports/2018/03/the_diamondbacks_are_bringing.html

Diamondbacks bringing back the bullpen cart! Has some ads, but not horrible.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Man, the Dbags never had bullpen carts to begin with. DWG seems like he was right... 3 adverts on the cart and the giant one on the side of the cap is prob a sneak peak into a shittier future for all teams.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't know. If I were a reliever, I'd wave off the cart and jog in from the bullpen. I would think that a grown man would be embarrassed to need a ride in a silly buggy for a trip that's about 300 feet in distance.

I think this will happen more often than not. Less due to embarrassment, but more because a dude wants to get the heart rate up a little with a jog or a sprint before entering the game.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

41Forever wrote: http://www.mlive.com/sports/2018/03/the_diamondbacks_are_bringing.html Diamondbacks bringing back the bullpen cart! Has some ads, but not horrible.

What? No digital-bleeding tires?

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't know. If I were a reliever, I'd wave off the cart and jog in from the bullpen. I would think that a grown man would be embarrassed to need a ride in a silly buggy for a trip that's about 300 feet in distance. I think this will happen more often than not. Less due to embarrassment, but more because a dude wants to get the heart rate up a little with a jog or a sprint before entering the game.

Then he can PUSH the cart.

[Edgy MD]

They tended to take the ride to the dugout, and then took a vigorous trot from there to the mound to get the juices flowing.

[Ceetar]

might as well go full kitchy if you're going to do it.

Have a promotion where a fan races the cart.

deck the car out with fireworks, and glitzy LED screens.

Have it self driving.

Or have it fake-remote controlled and show Mr. Met on the jumbo 'driving' the cart to the mound.

might as well go full advertising. besides the obvious 'self driving car by Tesla' advertising. Have a pokemon sit in the drivers seat. Give the cart airplane wings and have a monster on the wing.

If you're bringing in a reliever that used to be on the other team swing by their dugout as a joke.

Have the car fake break down, billow blue and orange smoke, and make the reliever walk the last twenty feet.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm imagining how anticlimactic it would have been if Trevor Hoffman would have walked out of the bullpen in San Diego in a tense 9th inning, "Hell's Bells" blaring, fans losing their shit, then he climbs into a little golf cart covered in ads for Sea World, life insurance and Karl Strauss beer, and slowly rolls to the mound.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, but if peoples can get, like, 12% creative, he can climb into a cart worthy of the here-comes-a-badass "Hell's Bells" factor.

[list:qzlmw8f2][fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]https://www.legendaryspeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pimp-my-golf-kart.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2]

[fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]https://www.ford-trucks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Raptor-Golf-Cart-29T9772-Copy.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2]

[fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]https://static.streetsource.com/photos/2015/214/69701/l.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2]

[fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tumbler-cart-2.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2]

[fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]http://www.9carthai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Batmobile-Tumbler-Stroller.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2]

[fimg=500:qzlmw8f2]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0GGC8IUAAArliR.jpg[/fimg:qzlmw8f2][/list:u:qzlmw8f2]

The real problem with cultural changes in the league is not that they get sponsored. At least not necessarily. It's that the whole league copycats each other. Or agrees to add something collectively at the same time. Put a few hours into brainstorming an original thought, and this could be a lot of fun. Try a flanking maneuver! Veeck the whole thing up! You're supposed to be competitors, for Pete's sake!

[A Boy Named Seo]

That next-to-last cart looks like one Yoenis would drive to his spot in left field.

[Edgy MD]

That's fine by me.

Do they really have a professional marketing staff sit down and shoot ideas to come up with what they do?

[list:2b84ftzo]"Terry, what do you think we can do to add to the ballpark experience."

[list:2b84ftzo]"I was thinking we could be the 14th team to add black jerseys."[/list:u:2b84ftzo]
"I LIKE! That's the kind of thinking we hired you for, Terry! How about you, Orin?"

[list:2b84ftzo]"We can be the 17th team to add a costumed character race."[/list:u:2b84ftzo]
"How do you genius kids come up with this stuff?!!"

[list:2b84ftzo]"I'd like to note that Orin also is the one who suggested we play 'Sweet Caroline' during the seventh-inning stretch."[/list:u:2b84ftzo]
"And I'll remember that when bonus time comes around!"[/list:u:2b84ftzo]

[A Boy Named Seo]

I'm surprised we haven't gone to a matte helmet yet.