I was just forwarded an e-mail inviting me to have dinner with Ty Cobb. I was impressed since the man has been dead for quite some time now. I was also impressed because I’d never considered what it would be like to eat dinner with one of baseball’s greatest hitters and biggest racists.

If you have wondered what that would be like, The Lakeland Flying Tigers – minor league affiliate of the Detroit Walking Tigers – are offering you that opportunity.

The four act performance has been called, “entertaining, humorous, historical, splendid, and awesome.”

I’m guessing the reviewer didn’t have much of a tan…

Here’s the attachment from the original e-mail if you’re interested: (pr-ty-cobb-dinner-2008.doc)

My personal favorite part of the e-mail is that the link provided for the team – it doesn’t even work: http://www.lakelandflyingtigers.com/

Here’s the Flying Tigers’ real site.

Not. Even. Close.

Maybe somebody from GoDaddy.com should shoot the guys in the Lakeland Media Relations department an e-mail. Or maybe give them a call, their Outlook probably isn’t working properly.