Jays fans fight to keep the 'Beer Guy' in the game

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CTV: Jays fans fight to keep the ‘Beer Guy’ in the game
Published 7/18/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
CTV: Jays fans fight to keep the ‘Beer Guy’ in the game First Opera Man in Detroit got a pink slip, now Beer Guy in Toronto is let go: Wayne McMahon, a 61-year-old beer vendor known for his trademark beer holler, was fired July 8 and since then, fans have turned to the web to fight for his reinstatement. Aramark, the company in charge concessions at the Rogers Centre, says he was let go because he sold beer to someone without checking their identification first. The customer turned out to be a 22-year-old mystery shopper who ordered two beers.

Selling beer to someone who looks under 30, is 22, and the legal age is 18
Published 7/18/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... Skydome.  Requiring someone to ask for ID of someone who “looks” under 30 seems to me like a pornography law: you know it when you see it.  Aramark insists that their mystery shoppers “definitely” look under 30.  But, this is an art, not a science.  To that end, does it make sense to fire someone over art?  I’d also like to know what would have happened had a policeman seen this transaction take place? ...

Interest In This Story Refuses to Wayne
Published 7/22/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Stoeten) at Drunk Jays Fans
... friend Parkes here, I'm going to skip the pathetic post-game groping for answers to why we're even still paying attention, and head straight for something that didn't get boring sometime during Euro 2008. It would seem that the good old mainstream media has been picking up on the ongoing story of Wayne McMahon's dismissal-- which Aramark now insists it will not overturn. Before the weekend the fucking outstanding Baseball Think Factory Newsblog pointed to a story from CTV-- including intervew clips from Wayne and also some stooge from Aramark. The CBC ...