Rockies give out 15,000 misspelled jerseys

[DaFace]

This is hilarious.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/rockies/...veaways/18312/

Troy Tulowitzki’s name misspelled on 15,000 Rockies jersey giveaways

By*Nick Groke

The Denver Post

The Rockies Saturday gave away 15,000 Troy Tulowitzki jerseys to fans at Coors Field before their game against the Pirates.

Just one issue: The jerseys spelled Tulo’s name wrong.

The second T was missing — and ‘Tulowizki’ it was instead.

Some fans proclaimed the jersey an instant collector’s item, something like Billy Ripken’s notorious baseball card from 1989 or something like the*left-handed hitting Hank Aaron card from 1957.

Other wiseacres on Twitter suggested the jersey manufacturer should have left out the W (because the Rockies have fewer wins this season than losses, if that’s not clear).

The Rockies released a statement about the shirt misspelling:

The Colorado Rockies offer our sincere apologies to the fans for the misspelling of the Troy Tulowitzki King Soopers jersey that was distributed tonight. The Rockies would also like to apologize to longtime corporate partner King Soopers, who was not involved in the production of the jerseys.

Acknowledging that many fans came to the game for the jersey, rather than disappoint them, we decided to go ahead and hand them out.

We have made plans to reproduce the jersey and fans wishing to exchange will be able to do so at a future date (TBD) in September at Coors Field or the Rockies Dugout Stores. In addition, fans exchanging the jersey will receive a complimentary ticket to a future game in 2014 or 2015.

[Miles]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Well, I meant that I think it'd be funny if people were still wearing them to games a decade from now to remind ownership of how awful things were these years. That would likely require washing.

It's really unfortunate they were never able to build on the 2007 WS year. Coors is a really great place to watch games and even better when fully packed in games that matter.

[PizzaDoughz]

They're fetching a pretty good price on eBay lol

[Bufkin]

I remember in the mid 90's when the Rockies 3-4-5-6 consisted of Andres Galarraga, Larry Walker, Dante Bichette, and Vinny Castilla. That's like a damn cheat code on a video game. And they still sucked!

[C3HIEF3S]

Originally Posted by PizzaDoughz

They're fetching a pretty good price on eBay lol

Yep, new shirt and a free ticket with that shirt.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks

Just when you think that this organization couldn't possibly do anything more stupid than their latest blunder, they manage to top themselves. Over and over and over again. That the idiotic Monfort brothers run a "successful" (in terms of attendance) baseball franchise is testament to how good a sports town Denver is. These imbeciles truly "succeed" in spite of themselves. One brother is an alcoholic and a recluse, which is good, because seemingly every time he leaves his house, he gets another DWI. And the other "smart" brother just spent the last week doing damage control because he fired off a bunch of hateful responses to emails he received from fans concerned about the direction (last place--again) of the team, telling them that if they didn't like the product, to stay home.

And yet, the Rockies draw 30-35,000 a night, every night. Makes you wonder how it could be if their owners weren't such completely inept bumbling ****ing ass-clowns. It can't be much longer before Tulo demands out of here. He's wasting his career playing for this horrific ownership group and GM.

Denver shouldn't even have a ****ing baseball team. The climate makes it literally impossible for that team to ever have a pitching staff. No one will ever go there to pitch via free agency. Darryl Kyle learned that the hard way. No one can ever be developed to pitch there. And it also ruins daily fantasy sports because when they are at Coors Field you have to ****ing stack your entire lineup with Rockies/opposing team players and it drives me insane.

I wish they'd just get rid of baseball in Denver.

[Red Dawg]

What a shock. The same state that legalized weed had this mishap. Coincidence? I think not.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

4th of July 5 or 6 years back the Royals had a 4th of July firework show go horribly wrong, and they gave away a free ticket to everyone who came out that day (which was 30K for the fireworks)

I was at that game. If I remember right, it had rained earlier that day and when they went to start the display nothing happened and everyone was just sitting there waiting like wtf.

[Demonpenz]

They played the first 20 seconds of Neil Diamond's "Coming to America" 10 times hoping to get the fireworks to start. I was quickly making a mental note of where it ranks on the dumbest ass shit I ever saw at the K.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by Eric Fisher

I remember in the mid 90's when the Rockies 3-4-5-6 consisted of Andres Galarraga, Larry Walker, Dante Bichette, and Vinny Castilla. That's like a damn cheat code on a video game. And they still sucked!

They couldn't hit dick on the road and had awful pitching