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The Staten Island Pizza Rats Will Always Be Remembered By Local New York Fans

by | Oct 13, 2021 | Sniper Rants

I’m not going to sugar coat anything. This was one of the most difficult blogs I’ve ever written. With as much confusion as I’ve ever encountered, here’s what I’ve come up with for your reading pleasures and a rare bobblehead to boot. 

The Staten Island Yankees were a Class A Short Season New York-Penn League team that played in Staten Island from 1999 until 2020. Apparently, the ownership decided to take a vote to change the name somewhere around the end of 2017. After a somewhat controversial, but successful launch in 2018, the Staten Island Yankees brought back the Staten Island Pizza Rats for a second season. The short season minor league team Staten Island Yankees played as the Pizza Rats for seven games back in 2019.

The name “Pizza Rats” went borderline viral as many fans and baseball higher ups were disgusted by the name. Anyway, the votes were tallied and the Pizza Rats stuck around for a few years. 

Apparently, last year given the pandemic, the Yankees ceased operations and totally got rid of the Staten Island team all together.  They were no longer part of the Yankees minor league affiliation structure and owner and higher up’s were not having it. They decided to take legal action against the New York Yankees to seek compensation for unpaid wages of players, managers and overall player development. The entire thing was a huge fucking mess and many local fans who supported the minor league team got thrown to the curb. 

I did some recon and went to the Pizza Rats home website and discovered they had a shit ton of plans for their fans several years ago, operating as a normal minor league baseball team. They had merchandise to sell, promotions, fan giveaways, great seating and ticket options and a myriad of fun activities for families with children to enjoy at the game. Unfortunately, that all went to shit when the Yankees dumped the team. 

I recently, came upon the official mascot of the Pizza Rats bobblehead. To my knowledge, this is one of three in existence. Manufactured by AGP, the Rat is positioned standing on one leg, holding up a slice of good ole fashioned Staten Island cheese pizza. The front letters are raised and one can only imagine how excited the fans would have enjoyed this mascot bobblehead of their favorite, local minor league team. I would assume during the turmoil of the team getting curb stomped that the Pizza Rats organization put a stop to the production of these bobbles as only 3 were ever made. 

I’m a huge minor league fan as it’s the place where players develop and hopefully move on to the big leagues. The majority of ballparks are fun, engaging and overall have a positive atmosphere for fans to enjoy. I cannot give an opinion as I don’t know the finer details why the real reason the Pizza Rats got dismantled, but from the looks of the prototype bobble, I’d for sure would make my way to a Pizza Rats game, especially if they were giving out this bobblehead. 

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The South Side Has Swag As The Bobble Hall Releases 3 White Sox Bobbles

by | Oct 7, 2021 | Sniper Rants

José Abreu, Yoán Moncada, and Luis Robert are three of the biggest stars for the White Sox, who won the American League Central Division with a 93-69 record and face off against the Houston Astros in a rematch of the 2005 World Series, which the White Sox swept. This marks the first ALDS for the White Sox since 2008.

Abreu is the reigning AL MVP and veteran of the team, while Robert is red-hot after returning to the lineup in late August from an early season injury, and Moncada is one of the keys to the White Sox offense as they look to make a deep playoff run. The Bobblehead Hall of Fame has a wide variety of White Sox bobbleheads available in their GIGANTIC store online.

 “White Sox fans are excited for their team to be back in the ALDS, and we know they’re going to enjoy these bobbleheads featuring three of their biggest stars,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar said. “The riding bobblehead series has been extremely popular and these three bobbleheads make a great addition to that collection which also includes several Bears and Cubs players.” Look no further to add some South Side swag to your bobblehead collection. These bobbles are manufactured by FOCO.

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Lamar Jackson Is Really Good And The Bobblehead Hall Honors Him

by | Sep 24, 2021 | Sniper Rants

Lamar Jackson, who is in his 4th season in the NFL after winning the Heisman Trophy at Louisville, continues to be one of the biggest stars in the NFL. He led the Ravens to a thrilling victory on Sunday night against the Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. The Bobblehead Hall has many Lamar bobbleheads as they continue to be among the most popular with several other styles featuring Lamar in his Louisville Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens jerseys available here at the Bobblehead Hall of Fame. The bobbleheads were produced for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum by FOCO. Each bobblehead is individually numbered to only 2,021. The bobbleheads are $40 each plus an $8 flat-rate shipping charge per order.

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, which is located at 170 S. 1st. St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened to the public on February 1st, 2019. The HOF and Museum also produces high quality, customized bobbleheads for retail sale as well as organizations, individuals, and teams across the country.

Score any of these new Lamar Jackson bobbleheads to add to your collection! 

https://store.bobbleheadhall.com/search?q=lamar*+jackson*&view=ls&type=product&aff=11

How Has Your Bobblehead Year Gone?

by | Sep 21, 2021 | Sniper Rants

As we slowly approach the month of October and playoff baseball creeping up, I want you to think and also let me know how your overall bobblehead season has gone. The reduction of SGA’s were practically gone in 2020 as Covid took over and last year’s bobbles were given out this year. Did you have the opportunity to obtain all the ones you wanted? Did you attend a lot of games? For myself, I personally only went to 2-3 games this year as having 2 young Snipers takes up a ton of time. For the new Snipers, one day you’ll find out the difficulty around summer camps, sports events and hectic schedules that it’s not as easy to attend a bunch of games. 

If you’re a strict retail collector, are you satisfied with the ones that were produced or were you expecting something different? We all know the massive delays that is happening with the ports being absolutely backed up as many retail and for that matter, SGA bobbles were delayed. Within the foreseeable future, we can expect more and more delays over at customs as there hasn’t been a clear resolution other than paying triple to move a port up so items can reach their expected delivery date. 

As a collector of pretty much any player, team and mascot bobble, this year was a sigh of relief as we all got screwed last year. I want to hear about your experiences this year in all markets and how you feel the bobble season went. It’s clearly not over, but we all can agree it’s starting to wind down. 

AGP Pays Tribute TO 9/11 With A Special Fundraiser For Tunnels To Towers

by | Sep 10, 2021 | Sniper Rants

Today, Alexander Global Promotions are paying tribute to the events that happened on 9/11. These items are an authentic original prototype created and hand-painted by renowned bobblehead-maker Alexander Global Promotions (AGP).

AGP is offering eight, rare 7-inch, 1 of 1 original prototypes “Thank You Heroes” bobblehead as a tribute to America’s Heroes on the 20-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. Proceeds will be donated to the Tunnels To Towers Foundation www.t2t.org

The 8 bobbleheads were created in Spring 2020 as prototypes for an unreleased series of bobbleheads titled “Thank You Heroes”. The series was never put into production and only these 8 dolls were ever produced.

The base is inscribed in metallic silver ink – “1/1 Prototype”, includes the initials “CF” for Chris Fryar, Co-President and Owner, Alexander Global Promotions, and includes an individual, signed letter of authenticity.

Link to the site to purchase below:

https://www.agpcollectibles.com