The Life-Size Yasiel Puig Bobblehead Scares Me

I’m hitting the road this Friday to see some live action Dodger baseball at Camelback Ranch, but there is a certain life-size walking Yasiel Puig bobblehead which I will be trying to avoid. I’m all for bobbleheads and bobblehead statues. You know, the ones that don’t move around and walk amongst the living. There’s just something a bit frightening about a enormous Puig bobblehead seemingly ready to either bump into you with his oversized head or perhaps hit you with his cannon arm.

Maybe I’m being a bit too overdramatic. It’s for the kids, right? My daughters giggled at the Puig bobblehead when they saw it on TV, but I’m not sure my youngest would feel the same way if she would see the massive bobblehead Puig in person.

I already have a phobia of clowns (and I shudder to think about the idea of a clown bobblehead). My irrational fear of clowns has a name, coulrophobia, but I’m not sure life-size bobbleheads have a specific type of phobia named for them…at least not yet.

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Of course Yasiel Puig, the real Puig, is a very likeable baseball player who has a charming personality. The bobblehead version is much more quiet…and large.

The fan who wore the Puig bobblehead costume during Sunday’s Cactus League game which featured the Dodgers versus the Milwaukee Brewers sure did make a scene, but I hope he doesn’t make his way to Dodger Stadium this season for the love of what is natural and not freakily frightening.

Perhaps my anxiety surrounding life-size bobbleheads goes along with my general distaste for mascots in the MLB. Even though the generic Dodger mascot often seen walking around Dodger Stadium doesn’t bring as much horror to me as does the living bobblehead, I just don’t feel as though the Dodgers need a mascot, cheerleaders, center field sculpture which spits water and fireworks or any other contrived distraction from the game.

The only Yasiel Puig I want to see when I visit Arizona this weekend is the one playing in right field.