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Durham Bulls – Promotions – Day 5

Today the Durham Bulls had a double-header, meaning there was lots of action throughout the day. I was supposed to work with the retail department today, but the promotions team was short-staffed, so I jumped in.

During the first game, I worked with the on-field promotions team, meaning that I helped with the promotions in between innings. The best part about this was I got to be on the field in between innings helping with fun games such as sumo wrestling, racing Wool E. Bull, and launching beanbags into a large pair of pants.

During the second game, I worked in the game operations room, mainly watching all of the work that is done during the game to control the video boards and all of the speakers. Yesterday I spent a lot of my day watching the pregame preparation of the video boards, so it was very cool to see all of that work put into action during the game. Most of the time I watched everyone working, but I got to control the video boards myself for a few innings, which was very cool.

This was my view right before going on the field for a promotion
This was where I was able to control the video boards

Durham Bulls – Promotions/Marketing – Day 4

Today I worked with the promotions/marketing department and spent most of my day with Faith Inman, the promotions director, and Emily Almond, the promotions coordinator.

The morning began with Faith showing me the game operations room, which consists of lots of very cool monitors that control the sound system and all eight of the video boards. Most of her work during game days consists of programming the agenda for pregame, in between innings, and post game into the video boards. The Durham Bulls got a new video board system this past off-season, so they are still learning new operations of the system each week. While Faith was working on programming the video boards for tonight’s game, the board in center-field went out, so we had to reboot the screen manually.

After spending lots of time with Faith, Emily showed me her main tasks, which consists of creating agendas for in between innings, writing the script for the PA announcer, and creating graphics for the video boards. Lots of work goes into each graphic seen on the board as well as the words that the PA announcer is saying.

During pregame set-up, the promotions department helped the sponsorship department set up tables throughout the ballpark as this was a big sponsored night. Unfortunately, there was lots and lots of rain, so a lot of the tables and tents that we set up, we had to take down during the hail storm. Though this may not sound like much fun, it showed me how much the entire Durham Bulls staff care about their clients as well as helping each other because people from every department were running out in the hail to help the sponsorship team keep each sponsor’s station dry.

Overall, I thought today was great despite not seeing much of the promotions team in action during game day due to the rain delay. I thought that the promotions department was super interesting and it showed today how great of an atmosphere all of the Durham Bulls employees have created. The Durham Bulls have an amazing organization with truly amazing people, and that really shined through today.

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