VIDEO : ESPN Encourages Workers To Skip Work For Baseball

According to BroadcastingCable.com, ESPN is encouraging sports fans to skip work and go to ball games instead. ESPN is calling the days that workers should skip work ?Ditch Days? and they are part of a promotional campaign launching Sunday. The "Ditch Days" promotion is part of ESPN?s ?Life Needs Sports? campaign. Here?s how the promotion works: Fans visit ESPN.com/ditchdays and pick the team whose game they?d like to attend. Fans are asked to tweet about why they should skip their job and go to the game on Twitter. The best skip ideas will win a pair of tickets to an upcoming Major League Baseball day game.