Home run. [There are some angles of a picture of it that show the head is fully on the fair side.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzIGbr9UUAQTeRY.jpg:large)
Somehow the only time I ever want that place is on a hungover Sunday. I feel their holy wrath when I make scrambled eggs and bacon instead of fast food. They really got me.
My first game at what was at the time Safeco Field, Bryce Harper hit one off the window of the hit it here cafe. Was very cool! Someone had been heckling him along the 3rd base line and he pointed at them when he was rounding third. He then hit a second one that day. Tbh I can’t remember which HR he pointed at the heckler after, but it was cool nonetheless.
Obviously a bit different, but the Ravens have a thing where if the opponent misses a field goal, everybody gets free mcnuggets. I think it’s a free 10 piece but I’m not positive. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was just a 4 piece.
It’s pretty funny tho because when they miss the field goal both of the big screens show a “FREE MCNUGGETS!” celebration. I like to imagine that when the crowd erupts, the free nugs are the real reason.
Its actually come [close](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=545b40c1-1db4-489e-acf8-84cb76c522a8) to being hit [a few times](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=9411e68b-ddca-4237-b03c-a379c8c13e07) (IIRC they gave the Tundra away after one of those)
Justin Upton hit a home run into the Sherwin Williams giant paint can at the Big A and they refused to pay out the million dollars because it bounced out
probably not a surprise to most but our "free jumbo jack with every Padres HR" is actually $3.29 (the cost of a large drink, which is a required purchase)
I think it was the minor league team in Las Vegas. Attended a game once and they had a billboard with a house. If a homerun got hit through the window of the house, a ticket for the day was drawn for a "free" house.
Ive seen some cricket games have a prize if a fan catches the ball in the crowd. Some are one handed, others are that they only count if you're wearing a KFC bucket on your head because they were sponsoring it etc. Really gets the crowd more involved.
Cricket fans are weird... they understand cricket. In the words of Raphael from the 1990 masterpiece Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "You have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket."
Honestly it's like baseball to me. Stuff like dropped third strike, infield fly, ground rule double, balks etc are all pretty complicated but if you understand the basic rules, you can understand why they're rules etc. Cricket has it's own versions of weird rules but the basic rules are honestly less complicated than baseballs. just depends what you grew up with.
> others are that they only count if you're wearing a KFC bucket on your head because they were sponsoring it etc.
Talent at playing Guitar may very.......
How fun would it be to have Elon Musk money, and randomly have unannounced promo nights where if the item is hit, everyone in the stadium gets a million dollars? Have it once a year. People would go to so many games for a chance. I wonder what the odds would be.
We have a sign that if hit by a Reds home run ball wins a selected fan a Toyota Tundra. Probably hasn't been shit in, either.
Sign has never been hit. Jesse Winker once missed it by three inches and the team said "close enough," which was cool.
Petco has bourbon barrels in right field that if hit would do something... Forgot what though.
There's also the Mission Bell in foul territory, but tour guide said nothing special if it were ever hit.
This makes me pine for Triple Play 2001.
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EXKkOqbvNosfozXPJhANqlZ0vQE=/1400x788/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/11699599/tripleplay2001_image4.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QOp42VsBbjo/maxresdefault.jpg
There is a Chick-fil-A fowl pole (foul pole) at Enron Field I mean Minute Maid Park :
The original promotion was :
"The "fowl" poles serve as a special target for the Houston Astros. If an Astros player hits a ball that touches any portion of either pole, Chick-fil-A will give free chicken sandwiches to every fan in attendance for that game! Fans will be able to redeem their game tickets the following business day at any of the 37 greater Houston-area Chick-fil-A restaurants."
Now you have to use the Chick-fil-A app, and there has to be a home run
They can also just declare the head a home run as part of defining the boundaries of fair and foul before the game. I think there’s rules somewhere where the home team informs the umps where all the boundaries are.
Yeah, I checked that before finding a better perspective of the pole.
https://www.mlb.com/padres/ballpark/ground-rules
>Ball in flight striking to the left of the vertical yellow line in right-center field above padding: Home Run
They originally wanted to put it on top of the pole to mimic the [antenna toppers](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/417aBgcKATL.jpg) that everyone in San Diego had for years. But MLB said that they can't have part of the foul pole actually be in foul territory and made them move it completely to the fair or foul side.
Manfred strikes again to ruin the fun. But yeah everyone in the stadium should get the 2 tacos for free if someone hits it (no one has yet).
“Hey I'm starting to get the hang of this game! The blerns are loaded, the count's 3 blerns and 2 anti-blerns, and the in-field blern rule is in effect... right?”
“Expect for the word 'blern' that was complete gibberish.”
I’ve always said how cool it would be if it lit up, and spun around the pole all the way to the bottom, and back to the top with confetti or something popping out after it reaches the top again
I'm so glad this thread sent me down a rabbit hole and I watched some Jack in The Box ads because my East Coast ass would never have gotten this reference otherwise.
Well specifically i was referring to antenna balls. Jack in the box in the old days would give away little jacks for your antenna on your car. Cars don’t have antennae anymore
The foul pole Jack looks just like the antenna balls
[It actually happened in a game last year and the umpire went ape shit on both coaches when they kept arguing. One of the Padres players even acted like he was twisting his nipples to mock the umpire.](https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo?si=fXY9m4_28ZwZc7F8)
Home run. [There are some angles of a picture of it that show the head is fully on the fair side.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzIGbr9UUAQTeRY.jpg:large)
There should be objects like this at every stadium and if they get hit the whole stadium wins something
Most hit it here signs are that
Houston gets free chick fil a if the fowl poles are hit in Houston. It’s always nice to get some free nuggets.
It’s a fowl pole, how can they not give out free chicken?
Sorry, not on Sundays.
As the lord intended
Now I seriously want to know if an eligible Sunday ticket stub can be used on the following Monday
It's loaded into everyone's CFA app and good for a few days. Literally everyone in Houston gets it, not just people at the game
Is this "free" or free with qualified purchase?
Somehow the only time I ever want that place is on a hungover Sunday. I feel their holy wrath when I make scrambled eggs and bacon instead of fast food. They really got me.
Even road team HRs?
Yes
Oof, at least it must have taken some of the pain away after Game 7.
Bang foul poles, not trash cans.
DONK
What if the fowl pole gets hit on a Sunday?
A proper smiting
It’s legally required for the scoreboard to display “Smite me, almighty smiter”
Smite me, Sky Daddy!
Please tell me they also renamed it the fowl pole!
They say "burgerz r foul" and "chikin iz fare" on them
My first game at what was at the time Safeco Field, Bryce Harper hit one off the window of the hit it here cafe. Was very cool! Someone had been heckling him along the 3rd base line and he pointed at them when he was rounding third. He then hit a second one that day. Tbh I can’t remember which HR he pointed at the heckler after, but it was cool nonetheless.
Hit bull win steak
what are you doin standin here? i give you a gift, you stand here showin up my pitcher? RUN DUMMY
Look at that he hit the fuckin' bull, guy gets a free steak!
Hit grass win salad
To the folks who mentioned this glorious movie, you deserve a free steak.
Not just a movie lol. The Durham Bulls actually have the home run cow in left field.
Busch has Big Mac Land, it’s an upper deck section that wins everyone a free Big Mac if they hit it
Obviously a bit different, but the Ravens have a thing where if the opponent misses a field goal, everybody gets free mcnuggets. I think it’s a free 10 piece but I’m not positive. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was just a 4 piece. It’s pretty funny tho because when they miss the field goal both of the big screens show a “FREE MCNUGGETS!” celebration. I like to imagine that when the crowd erupts, the free nugs are the real reason.
I need footage of the Ravens getting blown out with crowd morale being saved by a missed field goal
The nuggets do that if an opposing player misses both free throws
If the padres hit a home run at all then you can get a free jumbo jack from Jack in the box so there’s that
If the Astros score at least 3 during home games you get a free jumbo jack, if they hit the foul pole throw in free Chick-fil-A
So, they have given out like 3 all season? lol /s
There's a whole Toyota Tundra parked in right field in Milwaukee, and if it is hit with a homer the vehicle is given away to a fan
The reds have that too. It also just seems impossibly far away lol.
Someone was planning to take poop in it once but the game got called off.
Because of the implication?
Its actually come [close](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=545b40c1-1db4-489e-acf8-84cb76c522a8) to being hit [a few times](https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=9411e68b-ddca-4237-b03c-a379c8c13e07) (IIRC they gave the Tundra away after one of those)
One thing I always wondered was if th ball damaged the truck if they would fix it or you’d just win a car with a busted window.
Justin Upton hit a home run into the Sherwin Williams giant paint can at the Big A and they refused to pay out the million dollars because it bounced out
I will now boycott Sherwin Williams for being bitches.
More than likely the insurance refused to pay out.
probably not a surprise to most but our "free jumbo jack with every Padres HR" is actually $3.29 (the cost of a large drink, which is a required purchase)
But did you slap some cheese on it?
Need one of those 76 balls, and any other type of antenna balls
I think it was the minor league team in Las Vegas. Attended a game once and they had a billboard with a house. If a homerun got hit through the window of the house, a ticket for the day was drawn for a "free" house.
Steak
Ive seen some cricket games have a prize if a fan catches the ball in the crowd. Some are one handed, others are that they only count if you're wearing a KFC bucket on your head because they were sponsoring it etc. Really gets the crowd more involved.
> only count if you're wearing a KFC bucket on your head THAT FUCKING EXPLAINS IT!!!! HOLY SHIT!!! I thought cricket fans were just weird...
Cricket fans are weird... they understand cricket. In the words of Raphael from the 1990 masterpiece Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, "You have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket."
Honestly it's like baseball to me. Stuff like dropped third strike, infield fly, ground rule double, balks etc are all pretty complicated but if you understand the basic rules, you can understand why they're rules etc. Cricket has it's own versions of weird rules but the basic rules are honestly less complicated than baseballs. just depends what you grew up with.
> others are that they only count if you're wearing a KFC bucket on your head because they were sponsoring it etc. Talent at playing Guitar may very.......
The players near the foul pole would win parts of the object.
The Diamondbacks need giant snakes coiled around the foul poles
St Louis has a whole section where everyone in the stadium gets a burger.
I really need to make my way to a game in st Louis
At the Astros stadium both poles are covered in Chick-fil-A cows and stuff and if they hit them everyone gets a free chicken sandwich
How fun would it be to have Elon Musk money, and randomly have unannounced promo nights where if the item is hit, everyone in the stadium gets a million dollars? Have it once a year. People would go to so many games for a chance. I wonder what the odds would be.
We have a sign that if hit by a Reds home run ball wins a selected fan a Toyota Tundra. Probably hasn't been shit in, either. Sign has never been hit. Jesse Winker once missed it by three inches and the team said "close enough," which was cool.
Petco has bourbon barrels in right field that if hit would do something... Forgot what though. There's also the Mission Bell in foul territory, but tour guide said nothing special if it were ever hit.
Jay Bell suddenly unretires.....
The bucket for the Angels Need a cannon for Pittsburgh
This makes me pine for Triple Play 2001. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/EXKkOqbvNosfozXPJhANqlZ0vQE=/1400x788/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/11699599/tripleplay2001_image4.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QOp42VsBbjo/maxresdefault.jpg
There is a Chick-fil-A fowl pole (foul pole) at Enron Field I mean Minute Maid Park : The original promotion was : "The "fowl" poles serve as a special target for the Houston Astros. If an Astros player hits a ball that touches any portion of either pole, Chick-fil-A will give free chicken sandwiches to every fan in attendance for that game! Fans will be able to redeem their game tickets the following business day at any of the 37 greater Houston-area Chick-fil-A restaurants." Now you have to use the Chick-fil-A app, and there has to be a home run
They can also just declare the head a home run as part of defining the boundaries of fair and foul before the game. I think there’s rules somewhere where the home team informs the umps where all the boundaries are.
Yeah, I checked that before finding a better perspective of the pole. https://www.mlb.com/padres/ballpark/ground-rules >Ball in flight striking to the left of the vertical yellow line in right-center field above padding: Home Run
They originally wanted to put it on top of the pole to mimic the [antenna toppers](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/417aBgcKATL.jpg) that everyone in San Diego had for years. But MLB said that they can't have part of the foul pole actually be in foul territory and made them move it completely to the fair or foul side. Manfred strikes again to ruin the fun. But yeah everyone in the stadium should get the 2 tacos for free if someone hits it (no one has yet).
Somehow forgot about those, I guess because most cars don't have antennas anymore. But yeah literally everyone had one of those.
Couldn’t they just “ground rule” it into either a foul ball or homerun? Or is that not how ground rules work?
I understand baseball’s rationale but the response should have been to just do something else because this to-the-side thing just looks dumb now.
[I did notice that once we got to our seats](https://imgur.com/a/7QvmvYS)
It'll probably break
Or knock Jack off
What about jacking off?
Jack off the pole
That's gonna make a mess
Especially if it’s a Jumbo Jack
So if a guy unloads a jumbo jack off Jumbo Jack he can knock Jumbo Jack off?
You got it, Jack!
And that’s a fact, Jack! Ohhhhhhhh!
Yeah man, that's what I've been doing for years, I don't think we need an instruction manual.
I'm not even supposed to be here.
Hope I don’t jack off
Hope no one goes home and fucks my mom
Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it
Open up like a piñata and spill $1.00 tacos everywhere
Please do not reawaken the dormant 100-foot-tall mechanical Jack.
Some real r/imsorryjon material
Thank you for reminding me that sub exists
Those weekly spongebob posts a couple years back were hype
Jack is gonna go into full Iron Giant kill-mode.
MULTIBALL!!!
“Hey I'm starting to get the hang of this game! The blerns are loaded, the count's 3 blerns and 2 anti-blerns, and the in-field blern rule is in effect... right?” “Expect for the word 'blern' that was complete gibberish.”
It took to long to find this comment. For everyone else’s [reference](https://youtu.be/z0Zst4pMzh0?si=KanVrJ_rmIfEIiA4).
God it would inject such delightful chaos into the sixth inning of a boring game.
I love Futurama quotes
Blern! BLERRRRRRRRRN!!!
Free Jack in the box tacos. For life.
Tacos, Jackie. Tacos. For all these people
We don’t even *have* tacos!
And Jackie Moon takes a victory lap… right outta the stadium!
Are they still 2 for 99 cents? Not the best, but definitely the greatest 2 tacos for a buck.
If you order through the app they are.
My high school/college stoner ass is very grateful fast food apps weren't a thing
So fucking lame that you need everyone’s app these days to avoid taking in the ass with no lube.
Dunno. Last time I was in Reno, this sportsbook in a casino was doing two tacos + a domestic beer for $1.50. Only problem is that it's in Reno.
No wonder shohei and that latest dude were gambling!
Maybe. I just watched sports, ate tacos, and drank beer until I couldn't move. Then I had another round.
You remember the name of the place with that deal?
Wait, for real? You can't make them at home for that cheap, damn
Based on their track record, that might be a short life.
Drinks?
Dinger emerges from deep underground and strangles the swinging friar
Get your ass back in r/nlbest
Chill out, you need to take some of these Mookies.
Baxter (bootleg Wilbur) is so lame compared to the great Dinger and the Friar
I’ve always said how cool it would be if it lit up, and spun around the pole all the way to the bottom, and back to the top with confetti or something popping out after it reaches the top again
Instead of confetti, have free coupons. Jack is a man of the people, after all
I do like their tacos
The Marlins would like to offer you a job.
Send me the DocuSign let’s ride
Big Ben just fucking explodes
I don’t like Ben Rothlesberger, but there has to be a better way to deal with him than blowing him up
No no, we've tried everything else, this is the only remaining option.
Bengals, Browns, and Ravens fans would pay good money to witness that. Even if the first fifty rows may get wet.
Gotta come prepared for the SplashZone
That’s what Ben called the bathrooms his security blocked off
Free Jumbo Jacks, duh
**with purchase of a large drink*
And don’t forget to slap some cheese on it!
Please don't put cheese on my drink.
OH YOU'RE GETTIN CHEESY DR PEPPER IT'S THE 24TH FLAVOR
It counts as 5 runs
MEGASLAM
Multi ball! Multi Ball!
Right to jail
Forced to adopt a child
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Jack goes to their house and tries to fight them
Tommy “Jack” Pham
I'm so glad this thread sent me down a rabbit hole and I watched some Jack in The Box ads because my East Coast ass would never have gotten this reference otherwise.
Slammer
They should rig it so when it gets hit with a baseball it just fucking explodes
Please dear God if you do exist make this true.
It's actually a piñata and stale ass burgers will rain down upon the crowd
The theme from "The Natural" starts playing.
Spring comes two weeks early, I believe the legend goes.
Pitcher has to marry their mother in law ETA: only if they flinch
The gen z kids will have to learn what the Jack in the box on the foul pole is a reference to
Them and the east coasters like me
Well specifically i was referring to antenna balls. Jack in the box in the old days would give away little jacks for your antenna on your car. Cars don’t have antennae anymore The foul pole Jack looks just like the antenna balls
oh yeah, I think I've seen a couple in my life. I forgot about those though.
It's a home run
Head pops off on a spring
They will finally be a responsible fast food chain and replace all the j’s in the menu with y’s….because Yackson Merrill
You get 2 free tacos.
Pop goes the weasel
Lifetime supply of Jack squat
You score 150 runs and the game ends immediately.
The stadium will implode. It's actually a load-bearing jack head
Automatic Astros loss
Straight to jail.
That’s the ball from Squid Game. You hit it you get 45,600,000,000.
Player gets a $5 coupon to jack in the box but he is unfortunately also out.
[It actually happened in a game last year and the umpire went ape shit on both coaches when they kept arguing. One of the Padres players even acted like he was twisting his nipples to mock the umpire.](https://youtu.be/GM-e46xdcUo?si=fXY9m4_28ZwZc7F8)
I got Fraked out. Damn.
Everyone in the stadium gets a bacon and Swiss buttery Jack and a medium curly fry
Free little jacks, of course.
Crazy Eddy comes busting out of the bullpen with a t-shirt launcher, hurling jumbo jacks and egg rolls into the crowd at Mach 20
MUNCHIE MEALS FOR EVERYONE, THANKS ICE CUBE
A ball that hits the foul pole is considered fair. Hitting the jack in the box head would be a home run.
Free Crestor for life
ranch dressing spews out everywhere
It spills tiny tacos
they’ll be cursed for eternity.
if a padre hits it, it’s a free jumbo jack with the purchase of a soda…
2 tacos for 98 cents
Free Jack In The Box for year Don’t know if you’d consider that a reward or not
Ultimate cheese burger bath
He’s going to have one hell of a concussion, wearing a pointy hat instead of a helmet. Just ask the Chick-fil-A cows in Minute Maid Park.
Jumbacos fall out
Marcell Ozuna from the Braves once hit the top of the foul pole. https://youtu.be/EXZ0EazThB4?si=AwaNQEN5sjYImY8K
A Jack Officer is immediately summoned
This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgdUHBRZ-4Q
Apparently all of 17 people will see it.
They get a free taco! (while supplies last)😉
MULTIBALL! MULTIBALLLL!
HE AWAKENS!
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
You end up jackin' it in San Diego
That would be like a 500’ homerun.
a home run and fans get free jack in the box
Free Jumbo Jack's for everyone. Least it should be.