Five More NL Teams Release Bobblehead Schedules

As I continue to look at promotional lists from around the majors, five more National League teams have released schedules that will include bobblehead giveaways. You can see my first two posts here and here.

The New York Mets are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2012. To commemorate this anniversary the team will be giving away bobbleheads of five former players, Tom Seaver(April 22), Rusty Staub(May 26), Keith Hernandez(June 17), Edgardo Alfonso(July 21) and Mike Piazza(August 25). Can the Dodgers give Mike Piazza a bobblehead already!


The Atlanta Braves are bringing back the bobbleheads in 2012. They have three dates scheduled, but they won't give the first one away 'til June 9 when the first 20,000 fans in attendance receive a Sid Bream Slides bobblehead. 2011 NL Rookie of the Year Craig Kimbrel gets the second Bravos bobble on June 13. Chipper Jones gets the third and final bobblehead August 16.

The Arizona Diamondbacks have been one of the better bobblehead teams over the last few years and this year they keep it up, giving away five more: JJ Putz(May 26), Ian Kennedy(June 23), Justin Upton Silver Slugger(July 28), Fan Vote(August 11) and Matt Williams(September 15).


The Chicago Cubs will be giving away four bobbleheads in 2012. Ryan Dempster(May 9), Jeff Samardzija((May29), David DeJesus(June 25) and Starlin Castro(August 13). These four are limited to only 10,000 each.


The Houston Astros are also celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2012, and they too are giving away five bobbleheads. These bobbles will commemorate great moments in the teams history starting with Nolan Ryan's Fifth No-Hitter(May 19) followed by Craig Biggio's 3,000th Hit(June 22), Mike Scott's 1986 No-Hitter(July 7), Chris Burke's 18th Inning Walk-off Homerun(July 28) and Jeff Bagwell's 400th Homerun(August 18).Thanks to Trey for the tip.

Dodgers Win, Wrigley Loses Power

The Dodgers played the Cubs on what turned out to be a strange night in Chicago. In the fourth inning Cubs starter Tom Gorzelanny faced Dodgers 2B Blake DeWitt. DeWitt ended up walking. While watching DeWitt take his base, all of a sudden the television went black. Apparently, there was a power outage a few blocks away from Wrigley Field, and the electric company had to shut down the power grid.

The Cubs transferred the primary power service to the secondary service, but there was still an 18 minute delay.

The delay was awful. When the game came back on, there was still no video coverage. For what seemed like an eternity, we only heard Eric Collins call the game. And it sounded like he was calling the game from his cell phone. It was painful. I wanted to watch the game in the worst way.

I never realized how dependant I was on the television. I ended up using MLB Gameday At Bat to keep track of the game, but it wasn't the same.

Eventually the video came back and everything was better, although Wrigley still seemed dark.

Chad Billingsley got his fourth win in a row, as the Dodgers held on for the 8-5 victory . The win was great. The blackout sucked.

So, here's to video on the television set. May you never go black during Dodger games.