Also tonight, as with every home game this season, fans will be treated to the Taco Bell Saucy Sprint, the Tex-Mex take-off of Milwaukee’s sausage races.
In the Saucy Sprint, which is part of a sponsorship deal with Taco Bell, three oversized sauce packets – mild, hot and fire – race around the field, finishing in front of the third base dugout.
– Ford Gunter, Houston Business Journal.
OMG you guys! Taco Bell is so f@#$ing awesome. Have I mentioned that?
I love it when Taco Bell and baseball intersect. My two favorite things. This doesn’t quite match the “Steal a base, steal a taco” promotion that once made Jacoby Ellsbury a hero, or the Rockies’ Feed the Fever deal, whereby anytime the Rockies score seven or more runs you can get four tacos for a dollar with the purchase of a large drink at Denver-area Taco Bells from 4-6 p.m. the following day, but a taco-sauce race sounds pretty awesome, too.
More importantly, I’m going to a game in Houston next week. That means I will see the Taco Bell Saucy Sprint in person.
I will root for Hot. I know a lot of you probably expected I would advocate Fire, and while I do appreciate Fire sauce sometimes, I find that Hot actually adds a better combination of taco-sauce flavor and heat. Generally, if I have three tacos, I put Hot sauce on the first two and Fire on the third. If you eat the Fire sauce sooner, I find, you don’t fully appreciate the flavor of whatever tacos you eat next.
Plus I feel like probably everyone roots for Fire, except the weaklings, who are naturally drawn to Mild. So I’ll root for Hot because it’s a nice solid middle-ground, and, you know, take that, Texas.
Also, I can’t believe I didn’t think about a possible Taco Bell tie-in when I presented suggestions for a Mets on-field race back in February.
Huge, huge hat tip to Mike from NY Metscast for the heads up.
Tedquarters 
Rochester Red Wings games had the “Taco Bell K-Man” — if that particular player from the visiting team struck out during the game, everyone in attendance won a free taco.
The best part about the K-man is that it was usually a lower order batter and almost inevitably some former MLB scrub or never-was prospect. I liked the idea of some former future star giving me a taco.
It’s also a hilarious thing to do to someone. Everyone here is rooting for you — and specifically you — to strike out, scrub, because then we’ll all get tacos.
“No disrespect to the batter, but tacos are good.” – N. Figueroa.
Taco Bell also gave rise to the amusing nickname “Tacoby Bellsbury”.
Ted – Care to make the Hot Sauce Race next week a little more interesting? You’re rooting for Hot, I’ll take Fire. Loser buys the winner a meal at Taco Bell at some point in the future.
Oh it’s on.