- 03:40 AM
- 04/27/24
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.
posted by plemeljr at 05:54 PM on June 01, 2002
OK...this story pisses me off in many different ways. So what if he's gay? Sure it will bring new meaning when I call a player a "sissy" or for him to run to his momma. But what really pissed me off was that from 9AM to 5PM every talk radio, sports show, or radio broadcast was discussing this! Damn it...there is the World Cup to talk about. Or the fact that Cincinnati is in first place since, oh about 10 years. Dammit, lets move on.
posted by plemeljr at 11:54 AM on May 23, 2002
USA v Germany by the numbers.
Great game, that 18 yarder to Pollok for the header in was nice. Does anyone know of a radio feed or an internet site to listen to it at work?