The Don Zimmer Bear is the Early Favorite for Creepiest Giveaway of the Year
The Tampa Bay Rays released its promotional schedule for the upcoming season earlier today and the one giveaway that stuck out was the Don Zimmer “Zim Bear.” This unnerving doll is something most young fans will greet with an inspiring wind sprint, and will probably point to later in life as a pivotal moment in which their emotional development took a crumbling turn.
As for the rest of the promotional slate, here are the dates to absolutely avoid at all costs:
April 8th — Raymond Cowbell
June 14th — Rays Cheer Sticks
July 19th — Rays Cheer Sticks
August 9th — Rays Cheer Sticks
The over/under on number of adults who take the “David Price Jersey Wallet” giveaway from their children and use it is for themselves is currently listed at 903. It’s also worth mentioning that I had to look up “sports jersey wallet.” If you’re not fashionably aroused, I don’t know what to tell you.
[via Rays Index]

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February 22nd, 2012 at 1:26 PM
What. The. Fuck.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:30 PM
I highly doubt the Rays are giving away a $150 dollar promotional item.
I bet the jersey wallet that you’re referring to is some nylon wallet in the shape of a jersey.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:30 PM
best. caption. evAr.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:32 PM
moar like “David Price cock wallet”!!(!)!!!1!!
/highfives people
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Slow. Down.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:35 PM
What the… that’s weird. Fixed.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:35 PM
Slow. Down.
I think they’re under orders to put up more posts. And I think Barry Janoff got the old heave-ho.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:36 PM
you fucked it up, Ryan.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Slow. Down.
I think they’re under orders to put up more posts. And I think Barry Janoff got the old heave-ho.
Yeah, but nothing will change after the takeover.
/TBL
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:39 PM
If I lived there, I would go to that game for the Zimmer Bear.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:45 PM
That bear is telling me to set fire to my office building.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:48 PM
well, i think it’s cute.
pedro never would have thrown zim if he was in this getup
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Breaking: Yankees have signed Burt Reynolds
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Good lord that is all kinds of creepy. Fortunately for us, it will be buried on page 4 in about 15 minutes.
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:53 PM
70s/80s anti-hero battle, who ya got?
clint with monkey or burt with trans am?
GO!!!!!
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:54 PM
linsaneinthemembrane, i think you are a bit late. that shit seems to have died down
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Michael Corleone would have had both taken care of and then gone after The Snowman just for the sport of it
February 22nd, 2012 at 1:57 PM
wrong! corleone had no wise-ass remarks, didn’t punch truckers or have an annoying laugh
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Dude shot a crooked cop in the head, had no time for truckers…and he made a joke that one time to Clemenza, stop hating
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Yeah, but nothing will change after the takeover.
You want to hate on slideshows? Yeah, me too. We’ll have them soon.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:09 PM
It looks like Susan’s doll on Seinfeld that resembled George’s mother.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:09 PM
Clint, since the orangutan is more loveable that Sally Field
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:12 PM
I think they’re under orders to put up more posts. And I think Barry Janoff got the old heave-ho.
Ol’ cut’n paste Eifling taking no prisoners….
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:18 PM
It reminds me of the dog that got crossed with the bearded guy in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.