The New England Revolution announce plans to replace Galaxy and Beckham August 8th visit with "Batting Helmet Night". First 200 lucky fans will get an official Boston Red Sox batting helmet for free!

As teams face the new brave world where David Beckham will not be visiting their stadiums this summer, teams are scrambling to fill the promotional void left open. With the circus not coming to town, teams have to come up with something, anything, to attract those crowds. You know, they can't just expect people to show up because they like their local team.

In case you missed it, the header on the league's website says it's "Major" league soccer. So what better way to woo the fans out for a night of mediocre soccer than to tear a page out of the real Major League marketing playbook and give away free batting helmets? Bat night was ruled out as it was feared uninformed fans expecting to see Beckham would turn on gameday officials in a most violent manner with their new free weapons handed out at the turnstiles.

New England also considered making Shalrie Joseph BobbleHead Night, but scrapped that as rumor had it FC Dallas had beat them to that marketing gimmick for their May 23rd match against the Ex-Becks. Other teams have yet to finalize their promotions for when they host the LA Galaxy.