Tigers’ David Price offers Opening Day ball to creative fantasy baseball fans
Tigers’ ace David Price is offering up his Opening Day ball to the fantasy baseball owner with the most creative team name.
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The 2015 MLB season is already upon us and that means different things to two types of people. There are strictly baseball fans who love their team and follow it religiously, and there are fantasy baseball fans that care more about their made-up teams than their actual ones.
Obviously there are some crosses between the two types of baseball fans, but Detroit Tigers’ ace David Price doesn’t care. While some professional athletes hate the idea of fantasy sports because fans become unrealistic and tiresome, Price is embracing fantasy baseball by asking owners for the most creative team name out there in exchange for his Opening Day ball.
Whoever has the coolest/most creative fantasy team name will receive my opening day ball! I don't have to be on the team or in the name
— David Price (@DAVIDprice24) April 7, 2015
That ball, by the way, was thrown by Price, who recorded 8 2/3 innings of shutout baseball with five hits, five strikeouts and no walks surrendered. So I guess you could say it might be worth something as the Tigers recorded a 4-0 win in Price’s first victory of the young campaign. Some of the names already submitted to the lefty have been pretty good.
@DAVIDprice14 Jeter's Never Prosper!
— Kennedy Mathis (@KennedyMathis22) April 7, 2015
This one might be my favorite:
.@DAVIDprice14 Joe Buck Yourself
— Pat (@_Scotts_Tots) April 7, 2015
Or the always comical:
@DAVIDprice14 That's What Cishek
— Tornado (@Lunchbizzle21) April 7, 2015
This contest might go on for a while as there seem to be hundreds of submissions to the pitcher via Twitter. It will take him a while to scroll through all of them of narrow it down to one.
Well done, fantasy owners.
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