Royals fan willing to get player likeness ‘butt tattoo’ for World Series tickets
There are two types of die-hard baseball fans. There are those who will do just about anything within their power to get their hands on World Series tickets. And there are those who will take that extra step to get their hands on World Series tickets.
Among the latter group is Jeremy Scheuch, a Chicago-area Kansas City Royals fan who desperately wants to experience the madness at Kauffman Stadium when their 29-year World Series drought ends on Tuesday. According to Red Eye Chicago, Scheuch has a unique deal he’s willing to make, and he’s already offered it to several Royals players in hopes of scoring World Series tickets.
His deal? Offer to get the likeness of a Royals player tattooed on his posterior, in unicorn form no less, in exchange for a pair of tickets.
And why this particular deal?
“I just like unicorns and baseball,” the 35-year-old shrugged. “If my getting a tattoo of Billy Butler on my a** will get us World Series tickets, then that’s what I’ll do.”
Not what you’d call conventional or perhaps even rational thinking, but unique circumstances call for unique measures. Or in this case, bizarre measures. Here’s a preview of how one of those tattoos might look, courtesy of jeremyscheuch.com.
Scheuch, the general manager of Do312, has been tweeting his design at Royals stars like Butler, Eric Hosmer and Jeremy Guthrie in an effort to get their attention, offering to get their faces tattooed on his gluteus maximus if they’ll hook him up with a pair of World Series tickets. Scheuch even offered to let Guthrie pick the butt cheek that the tattoo will go on.
So, um, why would he do that?
“Because it’s the World Series,” he said. “I’ve been waiting 29 years. I need to go with my dad.”
And therein lies the sweeter side to Scheuch’s deal. Like so many sons, he bonded with his father over baseball and specifically Royals baseball. An opportunity to share a moment like this together hasn’t come since he was probably too young to understand or embrace it, and if the nearly three-decade long drought has taught them anything it’s that continued success is in no way guaranteed. The next opportunity could be 10, 20 or 50 years down the road.
“My dad and I are pretty close, but this past few weeks has been amazing,” he said. “We talk almost every day. He was at the game yesterday (ALCS Game 4) and it bums me out I wasn’t there with him, not because of the game but because it was with my dad.”
There are two sides to this story.
On the front side, we hope that opportunity comes for Jeremy and his dad and they get a chance to create a new memory.
On the back side, well, let’s hope it doesn’t come down to that. Just give the man some tickets.
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