Here's how you can get free Battle Creek Bombers tickets for life

What would you be willing to do to get Battle Creek Bombers tickets for life?

How about getting a tattoo that you will have for the rest of your life?

That’s one of the unusual promotions, along with special nights throughout the season, the Battle Creek Bombers announced this week as the franchise continues to strive to be unique as it looks to give local baseball fans the best entertainment value for their dollar.

In July, Battle Creek will host Bombers Tattoo Day. The first 12 people to stop in at Cereal City Tattoo and Piercing who get a Bombers tattoo will receive two general admission tickets for life to Battle Creek Bombers games.

“It is the 12th year of Bombers baseball, so we are saying the first 12 fans that will come out to get a Bombers tattoo, we will give them tickets for life,” said Battle Creek general manager Tyler Shore. “We are going to have the event at Cereal City Tattoo and Piercing, Moe Skeeter will be there, it will be a fun day.”

The July 28 event came about after Shore visited the tattoo shop for some other business.

“I was in a fantasy football league, and one my buddies lost and his punishment was to get his belly button pierced. We took him there and I ended up talking to the owner a bit and we were thinking about things we could do together, since you don’t usually see a tattoo shop affiliated with a baseball team,” Shore said. “We came up with the Bombers tattoo idea and we said, if someone is willing to have that ink for life, the least we could do was give them tickets for life. We think it will be a pretty cool promotion.

“One of our guys in the office, Deric, said if Cereal City Tattoo signed on with us, he’d get a tattoo. I think he will be first one in line, and hopefully, we will get few more after that.”

Tom Smith, co-owner of Cereal City Tattoo and Piercing, thinks it's a natural fit.

"There's not much more things American than the electric tattoo (machine), which was invented in America. About as American as you can get, just like baseball," Smith said. "We came up with a Moe Skeeter design we will use, it's pretty cool. I think it's going to be an exciting day when we have the event. I think a lot of the fans that go to Bombers games lines up with the kind of people we get in here with what we do."

On the field, the Bombers will also be having fun by bringing in some new acts for the 2018 season.

“We try to do some different things every single year, something the fans haven’t seen before,” Shore said. “And at the same time, we are bringing back some entertainment the fans know and love.

“We are always looking for some wacky things we can do at the stadium and outside the stadium that will gain some attention so that people will see we are a fun company. That’s what we call ourselves, a fun company, and that’s what we are really trying to stress this summer.”

Some of the highlighted events include:

• June 15: Tyler's Balancing Act - A guy who balances things on his face, from chairs, tables and even ladders.

• June 30: Dave 'The Bullet' Smith - Shoots himself out of a cannon from center field to home plate.

• July 13: Reggy the Purple Party Dude – Family-friendly mascot entertainment who does field skits and crowd interaction.

• July 14: XPOGO – Pogo stick stunt crew

• July 21: Inflatamaniacs – Inflatable characters who do skits on the field

• Aug. 3: Sunshine Fire Entertainment – Fire breathing act with fire stunts

• Aug. 11: Bombers Block Party at Superior Buick Cadillac – One fan gets a chance to win a new car.

Shore says the best way to be a part of any or all of these events is to get one of the 5-pack deals.

“All of our promotions, we put on our pack days. We have two 5-game ticket packs, so we have 10 days we are really trying to blow out and put them all on those pack days," Shore said. "So if you want to see the cannonball guy or the fire breathers or the others, you should probably buy a pack because those game could sell out early."

Battle Creek announced that two of the first three games of the season have already sold out.

Contact Bill Broderick (269) 966-0678 or bbroderi@battlecreekenquirer.com. Follow him on Twitter @billbroderick.