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There are nearly 250 Minor League Baseball teams in the U.S. That means wherever you are, you're a short drive away from one of the greatest shows of summer. Minor League Baseball combines the fun of the national pastime with the pageantry of a small county fair, and that's just one of the reasons why seeing a game in the minors is better than the big leagues...
1. Promotions
Sure, MLB might give you a pennant, a foam finger or a gym bag, but in the minors they take the spectacle up a notch, whether it's pregnancy night (free season tickets for life if a woman gives birth during the game) or liposuction giveaways.
Even more importantly, most teams have cheap beer nights, during which you can get plastered for about five bucks. There's no better way to relax after having all the fat lipo'd out of your body.
2. Team Names
Most team names are dumb. MLB has 30 and two of them are based on pairs of socks. In the minors, they get more creative. Check out the Greensboro Grasshoppers take on the Quad City River Bandits, or the Mobile Bay Bears against the West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx, or the Albuquerque Isotopes versus the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs. Suddenly, "the Rays" doesn't sound half bad.
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