A tale of two owners: Beating the heat

by supergrover on Jun 8, 2011 4:57 PM EDT

Hot as hell at the ball park today. It seems the Reds were doing it all right...

misting stations

extra medical staff

giving out sun lotion

other ameneties

movies

and the professor and maryann

http://www.wqad.com/news/sns-ap-oh--reds-hotweather,0,5947827.story

What did Mike Brown do in a similar game? Turned off the water fountains and charged $3 for tap water.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/09/13/loc_bronson_water-gate.html

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I'll bash Mike Brown like anyone else, and I hate football and the Bengals...

…but that Enquirer article didn’t support your conclusion. There was no mention of turning off water fountains (which is probably illegal) and Brown didn’t make the decision to sell the tap water, the concessionaire did as a matter of their corporate policy, misguided as it might have been.

Looks like the Reds did learn a lesson from that, though. Good on them for treating fans right.

by OHSnap on Jun 9, 2011 3:54 AM EDT reply actions