Template:Did you know nominations/All-you-can-eat seats (baseball)

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:16, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Where else but America (or possibly Canada) can you be so richly rewarded for making a complete pig of yourself?

All-you-can-eat seats (baseball)[edit]

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~~... that you can eat all the hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, and soft drinks you want in all-you-can eat seats at nineteen of the thirty Major League Baseball parks?~~

Reviewed: California (novel)

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self nominated at 20:49, 27 July 2014 (UTC).

ALT1: ~~... that you can eat all the hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, and soft drinks you want for the price of a seat at many Major League Baseball parks?~~ Yoninah (talk) 08:08, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I generally like this better, but my concern is that it makes it sound like any seat gives you this privilege. Howzabout

ALT1A: ... that you can eat all the hot dogs, nachos, popcorn, peanuts, and soft drinks you want in the "all-you-can-eat" sections found at many Major League Baseball parks?

EEng (talk) 15:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

OK. I moved the quotation marks away from "seat". How about reviewing this nomination, too? :) Yoninah (talk) 17:30, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

(The way you have it is best of all.) OK, but will you reconsider airgonation? (Not a requirement for my doing the review, though I can't do it right now.) EEng (talk) 19:27, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Put the word in the article and explain it, and you have a deal! Yoninah (talk) 21:02, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. You put me in a difficult position. I thought about it a bit, and while there's a good deal of flexibility to use a fun, obsolete word like that in a hook, it's just not appropriate for the article itself -- it's just too far out. So as much as I'd like to see it used in the hook, I can't do it that way. Thus it's all on your shoulders. Either bring yourself to see the appropriateness of the word in the hook, and thereby delight and edify untold thousands, or don't and make me cry. It's your choice. No pressure, of course. EEng (talk) 21:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm smiling, but I'm a stickler for (DYK) rules. Yoninah (talk) 21:45, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Just for the fun of it... what rule? Nothing says the words have to be taken from the article -- if the article said "ascended" we could still say "go up" in the hook. Pleeeeease? I want to WIN! -- to be ASCENDANT, in fact. EEng (talk) 21:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

for ALT1A. Length fine, brand new, just da' facts, spotcheck for copyv/paraphrase. I couldn't really check that every one of the yummies mentioned in the hook are available as AYCE at "many" parks, but I checked a number of the sources to confirm that a lot of the parks offer most or all of them. Dig in! EEng (talk) 22:32, 28 July 2014 (UTC)