Working in the minor leagues is tough. The crowds are small, the pay is meager, and the lower you get the farther away you are from achieving the Big League dream. It's rough enough in Triple-A, but to be in the Rookie Leagues is light years away from your desired destination as either a player, or a marketer. What that means is that getting butts in the seats to come watch your team can be a colossal pain in one's ass, which is why there are so many promotions at the minor league levels.
All that being said, today NBC Sports' Hardball Talk spotted a promotion that probably wasn't very well thought out (and given recent events, very poorly timed). That event would be "Caucasian Heritage Night" which was screen-capped because the author (correctly) predicted it'd be canceled before the end of the day.
After trending on Twitter due to public outrage (instead of public interest)...:
...the event (originally scheduled for August 10th) went MIA:
And the team then said "Oops, our bad," but with a lot more words in a press release:
[via Hardball Talk/Orem Owlz]
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