![\"\"](\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/bobbles.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ugh, I can\u2019t believe I just used a hashtag as my title line, but frankly it\u00a0is<\/em>\u00a0pretty succinct in this particular application.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019ve made no secret that I\u2019m a pretty terrible baseball fan these days, and as the 2014 season approaches closer and closer, I should be getting more excited than I am, because when the day is over, I still really do like baseball.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that it\u2019s not as all-consuming to me as it once was, and I kind of view baseball as the ultimate and greatest fallback activity there is, and when it comes to travel, no travel seems necessarily complete without having viewed some baseball in some capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n One thing that has remained consistent throughout the years though, is my craze for baseball bobbleheads. \u00a0I really still can\u2019t explain it, but I really do enjoy collecting them, and the accumulation of more bobbleheads is something that I\u2019m pretty passionate about as the seasons come and go.\u00a0 More than the release of schedules of games and opponents, I\u2019m more excited about the release of the schedules of promotions, with hopes that I\u2019ll see bobbleheads listed among them.\u00a0 Not just at home in Atlanta, I have my eyes peeled, and ears to the ground when it comes to bobbleheads all throughout Major League Baseball\u00a0as well as<\/em>, throughout the minor leagues.\u00a0\u00a0Especially<\/em>\u00a0those that are Braves affiliates.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hunting down bobbleheads is as good of an excuse to travel as much as the goal of visiting every MLB ballpark.\u00a0 If I can hit up a new ballpark\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0get a bobblehead in the process, it\u2019s like a super bonus.\u00a0 I\u2019ve actually marked two dates on a tentative calendar of places to hit up for such super bonuses.\u00a0 But there\u2019s no sugar-coating it, such a craze is somewhat reckless, and sure as heck ain\u2019t free.\u00a0 Granted, it\u2019s nowhere nearly as costly as accumulating replica wrestling championship belts, but it\u2019s certainly harder when there\u2019s travel and the concern of things like getting to the parks on time, bad weather, and other variables that can mess things up.<\/span><\/p>\n In this particular case, the impetus for me deciding to write (aside from it being slow as balls), is a conflict that I\u2019ve discovered that has me stumped.\u00a0 I have a little bit of anxiety about it, although I\u2019d like to believe there are very possible solutions to it, but it\u2019s the fact that I don\u2019t have them instantaneously that has me concerned.\u00a0 And in the grand perspective of things, it\u2019s really trite since it involves nothing but bobbleheads, but god damn it, I want\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of the bobbleheads.<\/span><\/p>\n July 18th<\/sup>.\u00a0 When the Richmond Flying Squirrels announced their promotional schedule, I was ecstatic to see that they would be giving out a Chipper Jones bobblehead on that date.\u00a0 Despite the fact that they\u2019re a Giants affiliate, there\u2019s logic to it, because Chipper Jones once played in Richmond, back when they were the Richmond Braves.\u00a0 There is no doubt that this bobblehead will be that of Chipper Jones in a Richmond Braves uniform, which looks just like a regular Atlanta Braves uniform, except for the fact that the cap will have an \u201cR\u201d instead of an \u201cA.\u201d\u00a0 This was a no-brainer of a trip to make, since I have family and friends in Richmond, and it would be a perfect excuse to visit them, as well as get this desirable bobblehead.<\/span><\/p>\n July 18th<\/sup>.\u00a0 This week, the Lynchburg Hillcats, the High-A affiliates of the Braves announced their promotional schedule.\u00a0 Now the Braves organization as a whole, are giving out a ton of bobbleheads this season, and I\u2019ve gotten them all marked down on a calendar.\u00a0 They\u2019ve done an admirable job between five different levels of the system of not having any days where they conflict, creating an almost perfect schedule for me to have a chance to get my hands on every single one of them.\u00a0 But Richmond, no longer an actual affiliate of the organization, probably was overlooked in this scheduling, in spite of the fact that they\u2019ll be giving away a bobblehead of the Braves\u2019 latest sure-fire Hall of Famer.\u00a0 Long story short, on July 18th<\/sup>, the Lynchburg Hillcats will be giving away a bobblehead of their own, one of Evan Gattis, a player that I do like, and would want, especially since it\u2019s one in the gaudy green and yellow Lynchburg Hillcats attire.<\/span><\/p>\n So basically, I\u2019m in the position where I want both bobbleheads, but can only physically acquire one.\u00a0 Obviously, I can\u2019t be at two places at the same time, otherwise this isn\u2019t an issue.<\/span><\/p>\n This, is the kind of conundrum that gives me the anxiety of the silliest variety.\u00a0 Fuckin\u2019 bobbleheads.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ugh, I can\u2019t believe I just used a hashtag as my title line, but frankly it\u00a0is\u00a0pretty succinct in this particular application. Anyway, I\u2019ve made no secret that I\u2019m a pretty terrible baseball fan these days, and as the 2014 season approaches closer and closer, I should be getting more excited than I am, because when … Continue reading #bobbleworldproblems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,62,142,15,65],"class_list":["post-38391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-bobbleheads","tag-og","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38393,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38391\/revisions\/38393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}