Fans won’t get David Ortiz bobbleheads tonight:
“I thought the bobbleheads were an inaccurate portrayal of David,” Kennedy said. “To go further, I thought the facial features were racially insensitive.”
The bobbleheads were made by Washington-based promotions company BDA Inc. An official with the company didn’t immediately respond for comment.
I thought all bobbleheads had the same head, just painted differently. 🙂 I hope a few of these get out to the public, like the original cover of Yesterday and Today.
Update: Via Jim Storer, here’s a picture:
Red Sox prez Sam Kennedy tells me he thought Ortiz bobblehead came out as "offensive" and "racially insensitive." pic.twitter.com/cXKcoum5iU
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) August 9, 2016
I’d say they got the mouth wrong.
So fans who bought tickets expecting a bobble head are out of luck. Compensation?. Then they get to sell more tickets at the next bobble head. Convenient. Flawed or not flawed they should honor their agreement and hand them out. Then do another one with better quality.
Ortiz has a bigger head, so they might have had to make a different mold
pft » No, fans get a voucher for a bobblehead, and get it when it’s fixed.
Wow. That doesn’t even look human — more like a bad B-movie alien trying to blend into the human population but failing badly. “They got the mouth wrong” is the understatement of the year. That’s nightmare material there.
Al Jolson
Gary » Yes, that’s it.