Drew Forester has long been a Baltimore sports talker that has fun on the air with his morning drive time show. Well he has come up with a contest that will give 8 families a chance to join he and his son opening day as the O’s face the Blue Jays.
Here is how the contest works according to Forester:
About a month ago, I purchased 18 tickets to opening day.
I bought them with my own money. I have the receipts to prove it.
The seats are in Section 308 (upper deck) and all 18 are roughly together. None of the seats are separated, meaning they’re perfect for “groups of two”.
Here’s where the listeners come in.
I’m taking my nearly-3-year-old son, Ethan, to his first major league game that day. He’s crazy about basketball (”Daddy, can we play basketball hoops?” he asks me every night) and he owns his own golf bag, clubs, putter and hits plastic – and real – golf balls all over the house. On April 9, 2010, I’m going to introduce him to Orioles baseball.
And I’m looking for eight other “parent/child” teams to attend the game with Ethan and I.
The only catch: It MUST be your son or daughter’s first-ever Orioles game. (Full disclosure: Ethan’s been to an Ironbirds game, although he was only one year old at the time. He wouldn’t remember it, obviously.)
I’m willing to take 16 of you with me. There’s no charge for the tickets. This is my gift to you and your child. I bought the tickets myself. I own them. No sponsor gave them to me. Or paid for them. I bought all of them through TicketMaster about 4 weeks ago. I have the hard tickets in my possession.
And I’d really like to have a bunch of you join me for your son or daughter’s first-ever Orioles game on April 10. We’ll meet up somewhere around 1pm or so for a snack, a diaper change (if they’re young) and a group photo. Who knows, we might even shoot some WNSTv that day as well.
I’m looking for 8 “teams of two” to go with Ethan and I on April 9.
I don’t care what the “parent/child combination” is…it can be dad/son, dad/daughter, mom/son or mom/daughter. You are ALL on the honor system here. Please don’t take advantage of this situation by bringing your child along if it’s not his/her first-ever Orioles game.
But if you’d like to join Ethan and I on April 9, we’d love to have you.
Oh, there IS one more catch. It’s kind of important, actually.
Usually the kids get the homework assignment when it comes to getting some kind of special treat, right? ”OK, write a 300 word essay on such-and-such” and you’ll get the tickets.”
Not this time.
I want to hear from Mom or Dad on this one.
Write ANYTHING you want about your child or children. It’s going to get published (or I at least own the right to publish it on the web-site), so please understand that from the start. I want you to write an essay about your children…tell me about them/him/her…tell me about the thrill of watching them enter the world…tell me how much they’ve enriched your life and your family’s life.
I want you to write an essay and brag about how great your child is/children are…the more you brag and the more you write, the better.
I’ll write my own “Ethan Essay” in the next couple of weeks. After all, I can’t ask you to do it if I’m not willing to do it too.
Forester says he is not doing this to get in “good” with the Orioles or to get a media credentials. He is done fighting with the team’s front office.
He loves the team and plans on making many trips to Camden Yards this season with his son to just enjoy baseball.
Checkout the www.WNST.net website for more information on Drew’s contest. There are also some great blogs and WNST TV so if you have never been to the site or listened to the station I recomend you give them some of your time.
