Stress-Free Blogging

One of my biggest tasks on Mondays during the season is to put off writing my "Promotion Preview"  column for as long as possible. So, I might as well write a blog post. That will delay the inevitable for at least a little while longer.

So...anyway...last month I included the following promotion in the column:


Birmingham Barons
Stress-Free Night, July 22
The Barons recently hosted the Southern League All-Star Game, a grueling and high-anxiety task. The club is now in its first homestand since that overwhelming event, so to recuperate they're staging "Stress-Free Night." Students from nearby Virginia College will be on hand to give massages [and] "Nature Scape" and "Pure Mood" sounds will be played over the PA...Rumor has it that an Epsom Salt giveaway is also in the works, but as of press time this crucial nugget of information could not be confirmed with 100 percent certainty.

So, was "Stress-Free Night" really and truly stress-free? Not exactly, according to Barons director of group ticket sales Brad Hudson:

Rain was in the area and we pulled tarp several times; we had a new PA announcer, our first pitcher showed up 20 minutes late and our mic died IMMEDIATELY before the anthem. All that said, we still played ball and had a wonderful time! The entire stadium sounded like a Crystal Light commercial and people really embraced it. 

I'm not sure if this is the Crystal Light commercial the ballpark sounded like, but I'm going to post it anyway because conceptually it is quite brilliant:
 


But back to the matter at hand -- Epsom Salts were indeed given away at the stadium, and for proof I direct you to a photo which includes both a team employee and a bag of epsom salts: