2016 Mariners Promotions Ranked

Nothing beats a day at the ballpark, except a day at the ballpark where you get to take a piece of fandom home with you.

There are many things in place to get fans excited for the regular season. While we have things like Spring Training, annual commercials and Mariners Mondays to placate our baseball needs until April, nothing quite beats a day at the ballpark. Even better than just a day a ball park?  A promotion day at the ballpark.

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In my completely biased opinion, Safeco Field is a top 10 in terms of professional baseball stadiums.  Being in attendance at Safeco Field for a Mariners game is often reward enough, but having a free token of fandom always sweetens up the game experience. Years of going to Mariners baseball games has have mustered up quite a collection of unique, but semi useless-trinkets that represent the collectively weird fandom of the Seattle Mariners.

Throughout the years us Mariners fans have been the recipients of many promotional giveaway gems. We’ve had a lots of trains, jerseys, beard hats and bobbleheads…. Then we’ve had Dustin Ackley Gnome Night. Also, College Nights, please go away.

There is always a ton of disdain toward the Mariners because of their inability to produce winning seasons. Many assume that because Seattle does not produce winning teams, that there is an overall lack of fan participation. The front office understands that when a team is losing, that the season becomes about the fan experience.

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Many factors are involved in creating a complete fan experience, including social media, in-game activities or music, player involvement, the list goes on. A large part what gets fans into the game are the game day promotions. Promotions are a good foundation for a good fan experience, and no one creates a better overall fan experience than the Mariners.

Here are my top choices for Mariners game day promotions:

All pictures courtesy of: seattle.mariners.mlb.com/schedule/promotions.

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