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¿Yo quiero Taco Bell? America eats for free if target hit in McCovey CovePosted: Tuesday October 22, 2002 12:34 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Barry Bonds could end up feeding the nation during the San Francisco Giants' coming World Series home stand if he launches one of his trademark home runs onto a target set up by Taco Bell in the cove behind the right-field fence at Pacific Bell Park. Taco Bell is installing a 15-foot diameter floating target in McCovey Cove where kayakers and row boaters often bob up and down waiting for a classic Bonds splash down. If Bonds, or any other player from the Giants or the Anaheim Angels, hits the floating target with a home run ball, everyone in America is entitled to a free taco, the food chain proclaimed Monday. The target will remain in place through Game 5. Any home run that touches it during those three games entitles everyone in the United States to a free taco coupon from the company. The company says it would pick a window of time on one day when people can redeem the coupons. The target may have to vie for space in the cove with a sizable flotilla of fans looking to take home a bit of watery World Series history. The cove was named for former Giants slugger Willie McCovey, and surfers and kayakers equipped with nets on poles often clamor for the balls that land in the bay. Of the 27 home runs to land in McCovey Cove since the park opened, Bonds has hit 21 of them. Taco Bell sponsored a similar promotion last year, offering free tacos to the country if the Mir space station hit the company's 40-foot-by-40-foot target in the South Pacific.
The Mir finished the day 0-1.
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