04/25/24
June 01, 2002
Spectacles like this make me not want to go to baseball games:
A tale of when sports promotion and greed collide.
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Mmm, I think that deserves the third circle of hell at least. Seriously though, why didn't they just give out dolls at the end of the game? Or have people walking down the rows giving em to the kiddies?
posted by Mossy at 06:19 PM on June 01, 2002
I would've been bitter to miss out on a special promotion like Bat Night as as a kid, but a lot of young kids my age loved the wheeling-dealing aspect of card and memorabilia collecting. Explain the law of supply and demand to your kid. He'll probably force you to show up four hours before the game next time and grab extra items for eBay.
posted by rcade at 09:40 PM on June 01, 2002
I attended last nights Reds game [5/31] to watch baseball and relax after the end of a rough quarter. Another reason was last night’s game was Johnny Bench Bobblehead doll day at Cinergy Field. We arrived two hours before the game started and literally ran to the gates in hopes of securing a bobblehead doll. Things didn’t look good from the start when we saw people walking away from the park with an armful of bobblehead dolls. So of course when we got to the gate, they were all out. All 10,000 Bobblehead dolls were given away two hours before the game. We then proceeded to see large men and women [think of the comic book shop owner from Simpsons] holding multiple boxes, and trying to sell their fist-full of unused tickets because they could not obtain any more Bobblehead dolls. Fuckwits. A small boy and his father were ahead of us and the boy kept asking where his bobblehead doll was while the father tried to explain to him that they were all out. How do you explain to a 7 year old that memorabilia hounds and ebay whores took many of the dolls for purely selfish greed? So guess where 23 [at this point] of the dolls have ended up, oh yeah, at eBay. There is a special place in hell for you people.