[DrDavid]

Will they bring the hazmat team to clean up the mercury when the bulbs are broken?

If too many are broken, then we might have to build the Twins another new stadium, or evacuate Minnepolis...

[camerongood210]

Aren’t those things pretty expensive?

[donhunt]

Now, seriously, what do baseball, light bulbs, and the earth really have in common?

[WOBBLY BOB]

no,no ,no, . we then have to build the Vikings a new stadium and another choo-choo to get there.

[Gaffer]

To liberal greenies, socialists and despots a very thin layer of GLASS is an entirely safe vessel for this extremely mildly hazardous 'mercury' vapor stuff (this requires you to suspend belief in the dangers of mercury in seafood, of course).

At first glance such trusting reliance on glass as a safety vessel seems oddly juxtaposed against the rantings of these same people that there is no amount of concrete, steel, lead in whatever thicknesses that is safe to contain nuclear materials, but it's not. It's just not. It's just not because they say so. It's just not. The energy saved by these thingys far, far, far, outweighs any minor 'incovenience'....

[Burlem]

I am not impressed with the flourescent bulbs, they have to be replaced just as fast.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Power Co: Here kid have a lightbulb. B-Ball Fan: It gives me a headache, could I please have a T-shirt instead?

[thefactor]

This could end up going the way of the “Death to Disco” promotion back in the day.

[throwback]

I still don’t know where we’re supposed to dispose of these things. Once I heard about the mercury, I stopped buying them. As they burn out, I just throw them into the regular trash although I know I’m supposed to drop them into the crack of doom wearing an Andromeda Strain suit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They will never try this at a Phillies or Yankees game.
By the time it was over they stadium would be declared a Mercury Contamination Superfund site and the EPA would have to condemn it.

[boop]

These bulbs are fragile. I’m surprised that they are giving them out at a stadium, where glass beer bottles are banned.

[dr_lew]

All I can think of is that line from BASEketball, “Oh, what a terrible thing to happen on dozen-egg-night!”

[SparkyBass]

Dumbest giveaway ever: mid ‘80’s, if I recall, Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego. The Padres gave away baseballs signed by the Padres team.

The visiting team? The Cubbies.

A Padre hit a home run. Guess HOW MANY baseballs were thrown back onto the field. Yeah, SOMEONE wasn’t thinking!

OK, it might take second place to Assault and Battary night at Yankee stadium (they gave away mini-baseball bats once!)

[SECURE AMERICA]

Earth Day?
Really?
Like we move from planet to planet.
Can we get any sillier?