How could they fail to do their “quality check” of the image before the things were produced??? I’d think that they’d have their act together before they decide to make 15,000 of the items.
I guess the mouth/teeth are supposed to be “racially insensitive”??
I don’t know, aren’t all the bobblehead creatures caricatures and exaggerations?? I guess it’s a racial minefield to try to do one of a black person....
Then there’s the black power salute.
Maybe these were supposed to be a rapper and reworked to fill the order; add a hat and paint a uniform.
The same thing happened to the nationals last year. Jayson Werth’s bobble head might actually be worse than the Ortiz one. Not for the squeamish.
http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/08/21/nationals-jayson-werth-bobblehead-mouth
Freegards
It’s a racial minefield to breathe these days.
Saw an Olive Garden commercial before. Big Italian family that LOVES to eat, blah blah.
All we do is eat and join the mafia.
Who gives a ####. How could people be offended by such nonsense.
If they had a Mexican family chowing down at Chipotle and every other word was Mexicano forget about it.
BTW, Olive Garden is the Burger King of Italian Food.
Take your best BBQ Grilled steak and replace it with a whopper.
Best comparison i could come up with.
That's why I think there's a decent possibility that the bobblehead was an intentional jab a Ortiz for his failed (steroid) drug test and his subsequent "Dominican Milkshake" comments attempting to make light of it.