Baseball & Paper Airplanes

Well another home stand has come and gone and with a one day off day, the Omaha Royals are back at it for another 4 games with the Nashville Sounds.   I don't know if it is the aurora of Ty Cobb in Rosenblatt Stadium or something else, but the Royals are in first place and 3 games ahead of the Memphis Redbirds.  With the Royals playing good baseball and the weather starting to turn from winter to summer, it is starting to get exciting around ole Rosenblatt Stadium.  We are having a good number of fans come out since the season started, even with some games dipping down into the low 40s.  The promotions we have had are some of the best in Minor League Baseball and that is not counting the Rosenblatt Stadium Replica that is our giveaway this Saturday at 7:05pm!!  In all the season is really working on all gears and it is an exciting time to be in the park and the team winning.

For me it has been completing one task after another. Part of my duties is to get the schedule of the games events organized and put into an addendum.  That keeps me pretty well focused on what is happening around the ballpark, not just the game.  We have sponsors that have suites that I have to check on and see if they are getting what they need, we have community organization partners that have display tables and other special events that might happen during a specific game.  My main duties during the game are to capture the fans enthusiasm and fun through a device they call a camera.  The camera is basically another part of my body during the game, with me snapping everything that goes on during an Omaha Royals game. You will be able to view some of the photos from the games coming up on our website in the next couple of weeks.

One of my favorite promotions that we have had so far this season was our ExpressJet Paper Airplane Contest.  This was a promotion where fans received a David Cone Statue sponsored by ExpressJet and an entry form where they filled out the sheet and used the sheet as a paper airplane.  After the game we placed an ExpressJet sign on the field and the fans came to the first base dugout and tried throwing their paper airplanes to the sign.  The 5 closest to the sign won a FREE roundtrip ticket anywhere on ExpressJet.  Now if that doesn't make you wanna come to a game then I don't know what would.  The latter part of the promotion is the only part I do not like.  Try unfolding thousands of paper airplanes that have gone through the trash and entering them into a database, that, someone else could do but that is why I love doing what I do, working in baseball!!!