Marlins will give vuvuzela-like horns to fans Saturday night

[Auggie]

The Palm Beach Post / June 19, 2010

MIAMI GARDENS — Like it or not, Marlins players - and fans - will get an earful of World Cup soccer atmosphere Saturday night at Sun Life Stadium.

Plastic horns will be given to the first 15,000 fans as part of a promotion to capitalize on the World Cup buzz.

The promotion has been planned since winter, long before many soccer players and fans began to complain about the incessant drone of the horns - or vuvuzelas - blown by spectators in South Africa.

"It's not really a noise you hear at a baseball game. It's obviously going to be loud,' said third baseman Jorge Cantu, a soccer fan who admits that the World Cup vuvuzelas can be "a little annoying.'

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/marlins/florida-marlins-will-give-vuvuzela-like-horns-to-754391.html

:wtf:

[Upton]

1. The Marlins currently have the worst attendance in baseball

I guess anything is worth a try. Even noise like this:

http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/marlins/florida-marlins-will-give-vuvuzela-like-horns-to-754391.html

[Auggie]

4. I would think it would keep people away...

:eyes:

[rabs]

2. Good news ...

... it will help to keep the beer-besotted Marlins fans who bother to go to the game from falling asleep out of sheer boredom.
:-)

[KamaAina]

3. Expansion team, meet cheap plastic toy

:eyes: