Roof Stunt With “Epic Sax Gorilla” Costs Minor League Baseball Team Thousands Of Dollars In Fines
This past June, the Tacoma Rainiers brought reindeer mascot Rhubarb and local icon “Epic Sax Gorilla” up onto the roof of Cheney Stadium, where the Triple-A club plays, for a routine crowd-pleasing stunt. Also up on the roof was Tacoma News Tribune columnist Matt Driscoll, who recently explained how roof dancing earned both his employer and the ball club thousands of dollars in fines from Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries. The gag is pretty simple, by the standards of minor league baseball. A person in a gorilla suit stands on the roof and plays a saxophone. Sometimes there are...
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