Fans flood Myrtle Beach Pelicans with Venmo payments to buy ‘beer bats’
A nice cold glass of beer has long been a staple of baseball in America.
It’s almost impossible to attend a game without seeing at least one person sipping out of a plastic cup while almost tripping and spilling their beer as they stumble to those iconically uncomfortable hard plastic seats.
Bud light, anyone?
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans take America’s pastime up a notch, however, with their newly-famous “beer bats” for those willing to pay to replace the old (boring) plastic cups.
Yes, the Grand Strand’s minor league team sells a plastic baseball bat full of beer. They’re also not even new. The Yard Goats of Hartford, Connecticut had them as early as 2018.
The year of our lord — 2021 — seems to have brought them into infamy.
A post on Twitter brought the bats into the limelight over the weekend, leading people to flood the team with requests to buy a beer bat, without even attending a single game.
Due to licensing issues, the team can’t sell people beer bats unless they are in the ballpark. However, the Pelicans wrote on Twitter that their general manager Ryan Moore, a completely selfless soul, had stepped up to drink a beer bat on behalf of those who Venmoed him $25 — and mail it to them.
Moore quickly became inundated with requests and is doing his best to get to all of them, the Pelicans tweeted yesterday.
The bats sell for $15 at home games. The team also has $1 beers, a separate promotion, on Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the price of the beer bats. They are $15, not $25.
This story was originally published May 18, 2021 at 12:29 PM.
