(April 11, 2016) - The Salem Red Sox are excited to announce that former Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer will be making an appearance at LewisGale Field on Friday, August 5. Click for Flying Squirrels ticket info.SALEM, Va. I hear some guy who looks like Knish from “Rounders” plans on buying up as many of them as he can. Put in your kid’s room to scare them at night, adorn your bookshelves with them, use them as a conversation piece on your coffee table, whatever you want, just get to The Diamond early. So get there Friday and get your bobblehead. Four years ago, people didn’t really know who Shaka Smart was, but when the Squirrels conducted an online poll in the offseason to ask fans who they’d like to see on a bobblehead, Shaka Smart’s name topped, among others, Frank Beamer (there is a Frank Beamer bobblehead night July 19, but Shaka won the poll, so take that, Hokies!). ![]() I need one of these for my office, like, yesterday. On Friday, May 17 (7:05 p.m.) the Richmond Flying Squirrels will give away a limited number of Shaka Smart bobbleheads. That Palmeiro bobblehead was the last one I bothered to collect, until now. 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. It’s been nearly a decade since I wrangled a bobblehead doll at a sporting event.
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