7:11
By mlblogsintimidators1
As the Single-A affiliate of the Chiacgo White Sox, The Daily Intimidator will regularly feature stories from the parent club. Like, this week, the South Siders inked both Bobby Jenks and 2009 Intimidators rehab player Carlos Quintin to deals for this season. They also signed catcher Ramon Castro, and relief pitcher Tony Pena.
What the White Sox have done this season, signing a bunch of new players while staying in budget has been nice to see. I have said it before, the Sox have done the things this season to make the playoffs. Even more impressive, is how they did so without a $500,000 cash bounty placed on the start times of their games.
Beginning in 2006, the White Sox adopted one of the most unique, and in my opinion,
successful advertising ploys ever. Thanks to this advertisement, all Sox home night games were to begin at 7:11.
Brilliant.
Not only does every person in Chicago that watches the Sox know that the game starts at 7:11, but every road fan, and every baseball fan scanning the list of games that day. The time 7:11 stood out and it always made you think of the popular Slurpee-selling convenience store. For their $500,000, the reach was tremendous, and occurred about 50 times per season.
However, for this season 7:11 is out as the game time sponsor…and here at The Daily Intimidator, we want to help find a new one…
Formula 409 — Every game is a late afternoon game, gates open right after school ends.
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2000 Flushes — Convert to military time…8:00 pm starts.
3M — Again, afternoon games, not uncommon to the Windy City.
10 til 2 — This staffing company is pretty well-suited for this…1:50pm starts.
Any more obvious ones? Help us out!
