Scratch My Itch

Jtneckjg This is…interesting.

Red Sox fans who play the state lottery now have a chance at the ultimate prize: season tickets for life.

That’s the top giveaway of a Red Sox scratch-ticket game that the Massachusetts State Lottery unveiled yesterday. Players also can win Red Sox cruise packages and jerseys used in games, as well as more traditional prizes of up to $1 million.

Bravo to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for tapping into two things that keep their natives going…baseball and gambling.

I very rarely buy scratch tickets (more of a Mega-Millions chick myself), but the lure of season tickets for life will definitely draw me in.  What a brilliant move by the Lottery Commission.

Man, I’m so easy.

Oh, and for the Yankees fans who don’t click the link and are tempted to tell me how cheesy this is:

The Red Sox are the first team in Major League Baseball to unveil a lottery game, but several others — including the New York Yankees and Mets — have plans to follow suit.

Not only are the Yankees planning to do it as well, but theirs will be in conjunction with the Mets…they’re calling it the "Subway Series".

Isn’t that similar to the Yanks and the Sox or the Mets and the Braves working together?

In other news, Julian Tavarez and Joey Gathright are never going to have a beer together, but at least they’re making nice in public.

Gathright said "we’ll forget about it tomorrow." Tavarez said, "I don’t know if I hit him good or not. I just wish that would’ve never happened."

Have I mentioned that I can’t wait for the season to start?

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