{"id":48846,"date":"2022-07-13T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T02:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48846"},"modified":"2022-07-15T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T02:27:58","slug":"the-most-bittersweet-bobblehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48846","title":{"rendered":"The most bittersweet bobblehead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I saw this bobblehead on preorder, it was during a time when it was all but assumed that Freddie Freeman was going to re-sign with the Braves.\u00a0 After all, he helped deliver a World Series, he loved Atlanta, Atlanta loved him, and there was no logical reason why he shouldn\u2019t stay with the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

The thing is though, I\u2019m really bad at spending money, and I often times don\u2019t pull the trigger on things that I want, despite the fact that I\u2019ll have a tab open for something for eons and refresh it daily, hoping for god knows what, maybe a fucking free button or something.\u00a0 But more often than not, I wait too long, something goes unavailable, and I\u2019m left wondering why I didn\u2019t just purchase it from the onset.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such, was the case with this one, and after weeks of looking at it and telling myself that I needed to get it, I didn\u2019t, and then the preorder window closed, and I was left wondering why the fuck I didn\u2019t pull the trigger on something again.<\/span><\/p>\n

But then a strange thing happened, the Braves traded for Matt Olson, signed him to a massive extension and then Freddie Freeman signed with the Dodgers, shattering hearts all across the state of Georgia.\u00a0 For some reason, I still hadn\u2019t closed the tab to the Freeman bobblehead, and on one day after the Freeman departure, I refreshed and it looked like preorders were suddenly available again.\u00a0 Despite the fact that I was sad as hell that Freeman was gone, I still felt that I needed this bobblehead, to cap and commemorate an occasion I had waited my entire Georgia-residing life for.\u00a0 I might more or less be out of the bobblehead collecting game, but this was still something that I felt I needed for the small collection that I\u2019ve actually kept on display.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it finally arrived this week, rekindling all of the emotions and thoughts of the whole Braves-Freeman separation.\u00a0 The Braves are playing pretty well, and the Dodgers are leading their division, with Freeman playing well himself.\u00a0 It is a distinct reality that the two could end up meeting up in the playoffs again this year, which would be all sorts of a drama bomb if it happened, but I\u2019m in a position in my life where it doesn\u2019t really matter anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

But still, as happy as this bobblehead makes me feel, to remember the instance where I finally bore witness to one of my teams<\/em> winning a championship, it\u2019s still also a reminder of the sad events that occurred afterward that closed the window on what should\u2019ve been a memorable and maybe successful title defense and an open window of Braves success.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I saw this bobblehead on preorder, it was during a time when it was all but assumed that Freddie Freeman was going to re-sign with the Braves.\u00a0 After all, he helped deliver a World Series, he loved Atlanta, Atlanta loved him, and there was no logical reason why he shouldn\u2019t stay with the team. … Continue reading The most bittersweet bobblehead<\/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":[36,196,62,142,66,79,45,49],"class_list":["post-48846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-barves","tag-baseball","tag-bobbleheads","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48846","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=48846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48852,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48846\/revisions\/48852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}