That's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but isn't CITGO the gas station run by some Anti-American politician from another country (I may be way off on this one). What the Nats need to do is work w/ companies like Wendy's and Subway and do a value meals-for-tickets promotion. I'd do it....from Subway, of course .
Citgo is owned by Petroleos de Venezuela, but is a US company, as are all the independent Citgo retailers. Also, just about every gasoline retailer uses oil imported from Venezuela. Still, because of the e-mail messages, many people think all Citgo stations are owned by Chavez. You're just as likely to be buying refined Venezuelan oil from a BP station. Still, because of
everything you read on the Internet being true, it is something of a marketing snafu.
It wasn't for tickets, but one promotion that I'll never forget is the Coca Cola pop-top metal bottle caps with pictures of the old Senators underneath. I still have a bunch of those with Bernie Allen, Eddie Brinkman, Paul Casanova, Epstein, Howard, and the whole crew. I took them off very carefully so as not to make a dent in the cap. I even drew a picture of a baseball field, and glued the caps to the positions. My dad built a frame for it, and still has it mounted in his wood shop. I wouldn't give 'em up for the world.
Down here a chain of car dealerships, which sponsor the "Maroone call to the bullpen" gives away two free tickets if you test drive a car (they
still use the old Ghostbusters theme song - "Who you gonna call? Maroone!" Enough already! And then Dan Marino, who, last time I checked, was a
football player, comes on). Anyway, it is apparent that nobody is test driving cars.