Updated JUL 15, 2014 8:53p ET

The Charleston RiverDogs will put their own spin on the infamous "Disco Demolition Night" on July 19, 35 years after the original event at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

On July 12, 1979, in the midst of a dismal season for the Chicago White Sox, the organization coerced fans into attending a double-header against the Detroit Tigers by blowing up a crate filled with disco records on the diamond. This was seen at the time to symbolize an allegiance to rock music and also resulted in a huge turnout of fans. The promotional stir remains well known in major league history and marks an extreme approach in attempting to spike attendance. It also marks the last time an American League game had to be forfeited, because a riot ensued on the field leading to postponement and eventually forfeiture of the game.

The RiverDogs plan to follow this infamous approach by holding an event labeled, "Disco Demolition 2: You Better Belieb It." In the RiverDogs version, the culprits to take the brunt of the beating will be pop stars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, according to a press release from the team. The event is tabbed as a "modern sequel" to the original event and will feature the destruction of material and music pertaining to both Bieber and Cyrus.

The demolition sequence is set to take place after the contest between the RiverDogs and Augusta GreenJackets. According to the press release, merchandise of the two pop stars will be placed in a giant box and "blown to smithereens" for all of the patrons to enjoy.

Fans who bring merchandise or music from the illustrious collection of Cyrus or Bieber will be admitted at the price of $1. Inflation didn't hinder promotional fanhood as much as one would expect as patrons paid $0.98 back in 1979 to enter Comiskey Park.

Let's hope no riots take place this time around.

Also, for old times' sake, let's not forget the glorious RiverDog days of A-Rod:

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Alex Rodriguez with a mouth full of sunflower seeds while playing for the Charleston RiverDogs on July 2, 2013.

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Demolition of the SeaSide Inn Hotel begins Tuesday at Oakridge Boulevard and State Road A1A in Daytona Beach. Construction on a new luxury hotel and condominium project is scheduled to start this fall.

DAYTONA BEACH Much to the delight of people who have been losing patience with the boarded-up windows, chipped paint, weeds, chain-link fence and vagrants at an oceanfront motel thats been sitting vacant for four years, the 58-year-old SeaSide Inn building is coming down to make way for a luxury hotel and condominium project.

Demolition work started this week on the 100-room lodge at the eastern tip of Oakridge Boulevard, and the concrete structure is slated to be leveled in three to six weeks. At a city code hearing last week sparked by complaints about the State Road A1A property, a special magistrate ordered the 1950s-era motel to be toppled by Sept. 3, but a representative for the property owner told the magistrate it could be reduced to rubble by early August if everything goes off without a hitch.

Thats magnificent, Bob Davis, president and CEO of the Hotel & Lodging Association of Volusia County, said when he heard the motel would soon be no more.

Thats great news, agreed City Commissioner Pam Woods. Its another example of moving forward on the oceanfront. Ill be thrilled when its down and the lot is cleared.

The propertys owner, Russian developer Protogroup, plans to start construction on the site this fall to put up two 300-foot towers with 500 hotel rooms and 105 condos.

Protogroup, which owns hotels and supermarkets in Russia, bought the motel property north of the Oakridge beach approach and another piece of land south of the approach in March 2012. The companys vision for the 4.5-acre site is to create a $150 million complex that would be an independent four-star facility and take about two years to construct.

Unhappiness with the SeaSide property had been mushrooming, and more than 150 people signed a petition demanding the three-story structure be taken down.

Davis and Woods both helped get the demolition in gear a few weeks ago. At a recent City Commission meeting, Woods started a discussion about what was happening with the motel, and Davis jumped into action when officials with the neighboring Plaza Resort & Spa said they didnt want to see any more angry guests who expected a pristine ocean view and instead had to look at a dilapidated building.

Protogroup Vice President Alexey Lysich had planned to topple the motel in September just before construction, but when the complaints reached fever pitch a few weeks ago the citys code enforcement division ordered the motel to be knocked down by July 5.

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. As another brief summer storm rolled through Tuesday afternoon, Mark Welch was watching the clock and monitoring the skies, hoping everything would line up perfectly so he could get moving on the next step in ridding the Kanawha Valley of the now-infamous white chemical storage tanks at Freedom Industries.

Contractors were on site. New demolition and storm water runoff plans were in place. Now, if the weather would just cooperate, and if a special large shear the machine that will actually cut apart those white tanks would make it in from Cleveland.

Were this close, Welch said, holding his thumb and index finger an inch apart.

Welch, the court-approved chief restructuring officer in Freedoms bankruptcy case, was hoping it would finally be the day that a major part of the work of closing Freedoms Elk River tank farm and cleaning up the site would begin.

Under a deal with the state Department of Environmental Protection, Freedom agreed to start dismantling and removing all above-ground storage tanks, associated piping and machinery by, on or before March 15.

But the tank demolition has been slowed by a series of problems, most recently a finding that there were 650 pieces of asbestos not three, as a survey originally identified that needed to be carefully removed from the facilitys equipment. Welch said the asbestos cleanup set work back roughly two weeks and that its not clear that all of the material identified as asbestos really was. It was easier, he said, to simply assume the worst.

Its better to be safe than sorry, Welch said. During an interview and tour of the site, Welch used that phrase liberally, perhaps in recognition of how Kanawha Valley residents have come to view the chemical storage facility responsible for the January spill that contaminated drinking water supplies serving 300,000 residents in Charleston and surrounding counties.

Welch is a managing director of the financial advising firm MorrisAnderson. At Freedom, his real job is to oversee the company as it basically liquidates its assets in bankruptcy court, a forum where the desires of a companys creditors for payment can often conflict with the demands to spend money on expensive environmental remediation projects.

But with attention focused on Freedom and the site cleanup, much of Welchs focus is on that project, especially following two storm water spills on consecutive days in June. Welch proudly shows off some of the many steps that hes taken to try to ensure the demolition goes smoothly. There are additional storm water pumps to prevent any runoff from reaching the river, and vacuum trucks to suck up any chemicals that happen to seep out of the ground when the tanks all now empty of Freedoms products are demolished.

Walking from Freedoms office building toward the tank farm, Welch points to a red trash bin full of somewhat tattered, bright yellow booms. Welch says he replaced those booms, in place since the Jan. 9 spill, with 1,000 feet of new spill-containing booms, as an extra precaution should anything really go wrong.

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The apartment building in Lowell where seven people were killed in a fire was set to be demolished today, but a court order will postpone the demolition as the victims families ask for further investigation.

WCVB reported that attorney Douglas Sheff, who is representing the families, filed a temporary restraining order that will put the demolition on hold until a hearing on extending the restraining order will be held Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court.

According to CBS Boston, Sheff hopes to work with city officials to investigate the fire further, including looking into whether the buildings alarm system was working properly. The report said city records showed a March 2013 inspection found everything in working order, but that police and fire crews responding to Thursdays fire did not hear any alarms going off inside the building.

The fire killed five members of a family, including three children, who lived in a third floor apartment in the building. Two other people were killed in a separate third floor unit.

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