As all sports fans know, a team can't reach its full potential without a supportive fan base. Just look at the Tampa Bay Rays; best record in the regular season and they lose to the Texas Rangers. And you know why that is? Because they have terrible fans.
In Ann Arbor, we take McDonaldopoly seriously. So to avoid fading down the stretch, we decided it was time we advertise ourselves a little bit in order to build our dedicated fan base. Some people call it "whoring ourselves out in a corporate, McDonaldesque way." I have no problem with that phrasing, but personally I would consider it "making an investment." By spending effort now to recruit fans, those same fans will rally us when we're tired, comatose, and diabetic in late October and make sure we finish with gusto.
So now that we had a plan, how did we go about doing this? I printed several hundred sheets of paper with our name and slogan (Mcdonalopoly.blogspot.com and "Play to win.") But it's harder than you think to whore yourself out. Contrary to popular believe, although we eat McDonald's 2-3 times a day, we do have dignity. So our flyers just sat in the team clubhouse for a few days with none of us willing to peddle them on the street corner like a common two-bit hooker. However, we decided we could post them late at night all over Ann Arbor. Yes, it was a cop out. But I'll be the first to admit, we were nervous. We'd never been playing this well late into the season before and we didn't have the experience to calm us.
That's where McHoff stepped up. He may not be leading the team in average, or even hitting above the Mendoza line, but his leadership is priceless. He decided to take one for the team, and took a stack of flyers to a party thrown by chemical engineers. Now, for those who don't know, chemical engineers are a sneaky bunch. Couple that with their knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, and you've got a wicked combination.
Now McKyle wasn't about to let McHoff go it alone, so he manned up and went with him. So, you may ask me, "Why is McCappo writing this post?" Well my friends, because, I'm the only one who can remember the events. As I said before, chemical engineers are devious. Well, McHoff and McKyle were roofied that night. (Most likely, the roofalin was prepared in a batch reactor in the basement, before evaporating off the solvent and then being mixed with some sort of juice and alcohol to hide the taste. This is entirely speculation as no eye-witness accounts are available from the night.) But, without inhibitions to hold them back, McHoff and McKyle were able to distribute nearly 100 flyers. We don't know how they were all used, but we did find several on car windshields and on our neighbors' doors the next day.
We've already seen the dividends of McHoff and McKyle's valiant efforts in our site traffic being up to about 800 people a day the past two days. McGomez and myself already feel revitalized by the fan support and plan to increase our game play even higher. We can't let McHoff and McKyle down after the effort they went to for the team and we certainly can't let down our loyal fans, who day in and day out, through fair weather or foul, come back to cheer on the team.
So this one's for you: the loyal fans who give us motivation to keep playing the game. You don't let us forget what's important and why we got into this in the first place. So go out and get yourself a Big Mac, a medium coke, a large fry, and maybe one of those free McFlurries you won, because you guys have earned it.
I'm lovin' it,
McCappo
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