WTH??? They are going to do this on the field? Get down and dirty at the ultimate food fight. The Chicago Tomato Battle is anything but your average summer sports event. Live music, cold beer and 300,000 pounds of plump, ripe roma tomatoes make for an unforgettable afternoon. The party kicks off with a costume contest and live entertainment. Get pumped with some pre-battle beers, then don your swimsuit and safty gear and get out on the field. After you battle it out, celebrate your victory with a live band and more brews. Be sure to bring a change of clothes, as things are bound to get juicy. Groupon: Throwing tomatoes is a universal sign of chagrin, from hecklers pelting bad comedians to gradeschoolers squirting ketchup during wrong words at spelling bees. $25 for Tomato-Battle Admission and T-shirt ($70 Value) Tomato Battle contestants gather at Toyota Park on Saturday, September 1, starting at noon. Live entertainment and a costume contest get crowds amped up for the fight itself at 4 p.m., and festivities last until 6 p.m. In the event of a tomato shortage, the festival will go on as planned but will be transformed into a mud battle Tomato Battle At each of several one-day festivals held throughout the country, thousands of revelers unite in an epic clash of pulp, beer, and live music. Armed with a cache of 300,000 pounds of tomatoes, participants don protective bathing suits and goggles and hurl the fruit at one another during a two-hour battle. Throughout the afternoon, live music and costume contests offer an entertaining respite from the front lines, as bartenders dispense drafts of beer to attendees older than 21, refueling soldiers’ morale before they resign to writing goodbye letters to their produce vendors back home. All tomatoes used during the event are past ripe and already fated for disposal, making the battle an efficient means of tossing them before their cursed transformation into singing Muppets.
To be fair, there should have been at least 300,000 pounds of tomatoes thrown on the field at our team for years already. It was bound to happen . . . Bridgeview needs money, to hell with the field!
I checked out the website. Looks like a similar event happened at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. First a beer garden is opened and bands play then they lead the contestants out to the parking lot and they the tomato tossing begins. We have a game on Sep. 2nd. Interested to see which parking lot gets tomatoed. Here's the battle at the Rapids' stadium earlier this summer.
I hope it's in the parking lot. Don't need Rolfe to slip on a tomato and be injured the rest of the season!