This fake Mets hot dog promotion went viral over the weekend and hand up, I thought it was real:

I didn’t see the Grok logo in the corner or the Mets logo spazzing everywhere on the helmet. Maybe I wasn’t thinking straight while pancakes were passing through my large intestine. It was a perfect promotion, a perfect name, and $1.08 is a bargain in this economy of egg prices. Plus there is nothing baseball fans love more than eating food out of a helmet.

Even if it’s fake, the Phillies should still respond. Take back hot dog supremacy in the NL East. This is hot dog war. Remember when they fired the first shot last year? After you cancelled Dollar Dog Night last they swooped in to save it. People forget but the Phillies have never lost to the Mets in the playoffs the year they had Dollar Dog Night. I want revenge. Fans are throwing around the word “cursed.” The Red Sox had the Bambino, the Cubs had the Billy Goat, and this entire city had William Penn. Who says the Dollar Dog Curse isn’t next? Here is a chance for the Phillies to right their wrongs. One of the only good things about the season being as long as it is is that it gives the promo folks opportunities to get creative. Bucket hats for Father’s Day, cultural celebration nights, and concessions with beer and popcorn bats:

How about hot dog bats? Fill those suckers with 10 ballpark franks and charge us $25. We’ll be happy as shit. The most popular person in the section. What’re they worried about, some Phillies fan bashing a Mets fan’s skull in with a plastic bat? Fine make it a hot dog glove – 12 dogs in a nice Rawlings. Make it 12 dogs in the Phanatic’s head. Hell I’d eat 12 hot dogs out of a jock strap (clean) if they were a buck again.