![]() ![]() If you were thinking that reading through that meandering account of some baseball game I attended nine years ago was going to yield some kind of payoff to you, the reader, well, think again…I mean, you’re right! While my Raffy bobblehead collects dust somewhere in my attic, I could’ve at least picked up a couple of I love Delaware t-shirts at the I-95 truck stop on the way home. Defiant pseudo-baseball collectors that we were, we declined these increasingly strange plays for our wobbly trinkets. It was late, but I would swear to you that he would literally pop up, unannounced, from behind the counter every 15 minutes or so to say, “you want bobblehead? How much? I give you 10 dollars.” I think he upped his offer to as much as the hard-to-refuse amount of $12.75. Our Turturro doppelganger took quite an interest in our Palmeiro bobbleheads. Deeds”, if he had been fired from his job as Adam Sandler’s butler and confidante and been forced to take a job at a late night diner in Baltimore. Behind the counter was a man who could have passed for John Turturro’s character from “Mr. We capped our night at the Sip & Bite on Boston St. Let’s move on.īobbleheads in hand, we headed out to Fell’s Point for an evening of revelry and a dead-ringer of a Darkness cover band. I do know it was close enough that if you wanted to heckle Lou Pinella to the point where he’d give you a death glare, you could do that. I may be combining my Camden Yards trips, but I remember we had great seats, third base side. Mind you, this was before Palmeiro’s career, and reputation, took a PED-induced nosedive. It’s no Sunscreen Day at Yankees Stadium (a real thing), but still good. Not that we were collectors, but as far as major league promotions go these days, bobbleheads are a pretty good pull. I remember why we picked that specific game it was Rafael Palmeiro Bobblehead Night. ![]() ![]() The last time came around 2004, when I was working in New Jersey, and my buddy from Baltimore convinced me to take in a weekend in his hometown. Seven celebrities the bobblehead of Jon Hamm looks more like than Jon Hamm: 1.It’s been nearly a decade since I wrangled a bobblehead doll at a sporting event. Louis native, looks absolutely nothing like the Mad Men star, it does bear a strong resemblance to a few other handsome Hollywood actors it's just too bad that none of them have had their own versions of Jon Hamm Night (August 18, if you're marking your calendar) to warrant collectible toys made in their honor, but perhaps their time will come soon. Louis Cardinals to honor Hamm, a baseball fan and St. Although the bobblehead, commissioned by the St. That's not to say that it isn't attractive, however. The face shape, the stubble, the smile that the actor never shares unless he's hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live the toy's creators may have had the best of intentions, but the only way the bobblehead would resemble Don Draper is if it was meant as a product of Roger Sterling's LSD-addled imagination. You know the type - Kate Middleton's portrait, Jennifer Lopez' wax figure, this bobblehead of Jon Hamm that looks absolutely nothing like Jon Hamm. As celebrity-inspired products go, there is nothing better than a well-intentioned but accidentally hilarious "lookalike" item. ![]()
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