Millennials get a bad rap. Some of it is deserved, some not so much. A handful of Minor League Baseball teams across the country have taken that bad wrap to new extremes with a promotional “Millennial Night” featuring every millennial stereotype in the book.
At the Montgomery Biscuits game, millennials can enjoy avocado burgers, nap stations, and get a participation ribbon.
Want free things without doing much work? Well you’re in luck!
Riverwalk Stadium will be Millennial friendly on Saturday, July 21st with a participation ribbon giveaway just for showing up, napping and selfie stations, along with lots of avocados ?
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— Montgomery Biscuits (@BiscuitBaseball) July 11, 2018
At the West Michigan Whitecaps game, fans are encouraged to “keep calm and dab” on the Dab Cam or sign a petition to “ban the dab because that’s what all the cool kids are doing.” There will also be contests for best beard and best man bun, along with a moment of silence for Vine.
RIP to Vine-the only thing that made six seconds feel like a lifetime. Sign our totally *legitimate* petition to bring back vine and you could win four tickets to Millennial Night on July 26!
Sign the petition today: https://t.co/kIdN0iMdIK. pic.twitter.com/UsFu7PIAdE
— Whitecaps (@wmwhitecaps) July 19, 2018
While it’s one thing to make jabs at millennial food preferences and our tendency to take dozens of selfies, it’s another to rip an entire generation over wanting “free stuff” and needing to catch some Z’s in the middle of a sporting event. Millennials were not handed the best of conditions culturally or economically speaking. Much of the safe space and participation trophy mentality comes directly from curriculum taught to millennials in government-mandated classrooms. And the whole “living in your parents’ basement” line is more indicative of a terrible economy, not a lazy mentality.
The marketing ploy hasn’t sat well with social media users, either.
Millennials are the backbone of the economy and work longer hours for less pay than the previous generation. Kindly find somewhere private to gfy.
— Adam (@adamd243) July 12, 2018
Siri, show me how to alienate potential future fans of my sport which has a notoriously old fanbase.
— bawfuls ❄️? (@bawfuls) July 12, 2018
They should have a ‘Baby Boomer night’, where any baby boomer is allowed to take anything they want, then the Millenials have to pay for it on their night.
— Alex Frye (@alexthecat7) July 19, 2018
Turn out for these events is tbd, but tbh, I’d just go eat some avocado toast and enjoy the night. It could be lit, lol.
