If you are a fan of Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers, it has not been a great year for you.
They are bottom of their division, have no hope of reaching the play-offs and have now seen their best player, Ryan Braun, suspended for the final 65 games of the season (there are 162 games in a baseball season) after being implicated in a doping scandal.
So how do you keep fans coming to the ground under such circumstances?
Well, how about plying them with free booze and hot dogs?
As an apology for the general misery of being Brewers fans, the club are to offer a $10 voucher to every fan attending a match in August that can be used at any of the stadium's concession stands.
Yahoo Sports have crunched the numbers and if the Brewers get their expected average crowd of 30,000 fans at each of their 12 home matches during the month that will mean the promotion will cost them $3.6 million (£2.5m)
Why is this number significant? Well it is more than the $3.1m (£2.02m) they were due to pay Braun had he not been suspended for the rest of the year.
So effectively they are returning Braun's remaining salary, with interest, to the fans in the form of beer and hot dogs.
And it is not just any old hot dogs either: A correspondent in Yahoo visited the team's Miller Park stadium and came back with rave reviews of the ground's hot dogs (as well as a bulging waistline).
"In Miller Park you definitely know you are in the cheese state of the US," he noted. "Everything is served with lashings of cheese - but that is not necessarily a bad thing."
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