Can I get an "Amen" from the bobbleheads?
Yeah ... I know ... lame ... but bobbleheads are a new passion.
You work for a sports media company, you have to have all sorts of crap like this on your desk. Kind of like a badge of honor. So, amid the computer termainals and media guides, you will find ...
...A stuffed talking AFLAC duck wearing a White Sox batting helmet. (One has nothing to do with the other ... the duck was a gift from the Associated Press folks that transferred from New York and the White Sox helmet came from a cupcake. True story.)
...An Albert Pujols Chirstmas ornament. For the Cardinals fan in you.
...A Todd McFarlane sculpture of former 1960's and 1970's Montreal Canadiens star Yvan Cournoyer. That was from a co-worker who found it for $1.99 in South Bend, Ind.
...A set of four Milwaukee Brewers nesting dolls -- J.J. Hardy, Prince Fielder, Rickie Weeks and Bill Hall.
The bobblehead collection, though, is modest: Former Milwaukee Brewers star Cecil Cooper has been immortalized in sculpture as has 1970s Cincinnati Reds star shortstop Davey Concepcion, the latter picked up Wednesday when I drove to Ohio to meet Rob on his way to Arizona and watch the Cardinals lose to the Reds thanks to a walkoff homer by David Ross off Jason Bleepin' Isringhausen.
It's also contagious. Rob, possibly the biggest baseball fan I know, was on his way to Texas to see the Rangers and Mariners on Friday night ... Jim Sundberg bobblehead night.
Next up -- Sept. 2 and back to Milwaukee for Robin Yount bobblehead night.
