Over at the Tampa Bay Rays clubhouse, or wherever baseball people hang out (a clubhouse makes sense, right?) I imagine there was a conversation after the Arizona Diamondbacks revealed its 18-inch, $25 corndog stuffed with cheese and bacon. And it went a little something like this…

“Isn’t that cute? They want people to pay for something excessively extravagant! Let’s turn this game up.”

And thus, the team’s Fan vs. Food challenge was born in the name of a bit of friendly inter-league competition: The Rays are pushing a promo where whoever can eat an entire four-pound burger and its accompany pound of fries can win two tickets to a game, plus a T-shirt to replace the one you’re going to split wide open in the pursuit of that reward.

Let’s take a look at the uncropped version, just to get a real feeling for the scale of meat involved here:

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