(AP Photo/Roy Dabner)

The Arizona Diamondbacks in an attempt to play off the success of “The Next Best Thing,” decided to bring it out to the desert for one day only:

Fox Sports are having an Eric Byrnes lookalike contest during the game on Friday, July 27. Entrants need to be at Sliders from 5pm on, and the three finalists picked there get judged by a panel of Todd Walsh, Dan Bickley, and Mrs. Matt Williams [but not Eric, oddly]. The winner gets to meet Byrnes the next day, and will also appear on The Eric Byrnes Show.

-azSnakePit.com

WOWO. For once a good marketing idea from the Dbacks. But my thoughts here are…how are you going to find a surfer-dude with blond curly hair in Arizona this time of year. Don’t you know that they are all hanging out in the water right now?

In any event, I thought that this was going to be a Carlos Quentin Bobble Head cover up, but it looks like that is still on. In any event, the more pub that Byrnesy gets in the valley, the harder it will be for management to part with him. Let the Byrnes saga continue.

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