Weird Baseball Promos

Promo items from sporting events have to rank amongst wedding favour gifts and trade show giveaways as crap that instantly lose their appeal the minute you get them. The folks over at Mental Floss have put together a list of the most interesting promotions and giveaways from MLB teams. To check out the full list click here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/84060. Here are some of "highlights" from the list:

• The Chicago White Sox will hand out Bobbleheads of their former heads groundskeeper later this season. I guess the team's assistant travelling secretary will have his day next year.


• The Minnesota Twins will give out Relief Pitcher Matt Capps' Fishing lures to 5,000 fans later this month.


• The Oakland A's will hand out MC Hammer Bobbleheads as part of their 'Let's honour rappers who have blown their fortune" theme week...Oh sorry he served as team bat boy during the 80's? My bad.


• The Pittsburgh Pirates will give out wind-up Pierogi figures, which inexplicably they also offered last year.

Wrestlemania Betting

Memo to degenerate gamblers: Don't say that you don't have enough gambling options.

Bodog was taking bets for this past weekend's WWE Wrestlemania event. Yeah you heard that right you could place bets on a pre-scripted, pre-determind "sporting" event. I guess it's not that different than betting on Tim Donaghy reffed game.

So did you bet on Undertaker paying -1600 as a huge favourite, Snooki in her tag team at -1400 or Edge who paid good money at +350?