http://www.metafilter.com/tags/StPaulSaints Posts tagged with 'StPaulSaints' at MetaFilter. Thu, 29 May 2008 17:09:43 -0800 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:09:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72096/Bobble%2Dweave%2Dtap%2Dtap%2Dtap This past weekend the St. Paul Saints, Minnesota's minor league baseball team, did away with the traditional "bobblehead" giveaway day. Instead they handed out "<a href="http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/19160729.html?location_refer=Nation">bobble foot</a>" <a href="http://www.2news.tv/news/19189589.html">dolls</a> <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0522081saints1.html">in honor of</a> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/64194/How-many-does-that-make-now">Idaho Senator Larry "I am not gay" Craig</a> who was busted for soliciting sex in an MSP International airport bathroom while waiting to change planes for Idaho. "The <a href="http://saintsbaseball.com/news/saintsnews/index.html?article_id=731">baseball team </a>[<a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/minn-team-gives.html">said</a>] the promotion, which coincide[d] with National Tap Dance Day, is 'in tribute to all their toe-tapping friends and fans from around the nation who may ever have set foot in Minneapolis-St. Paul… even for just a change of planes." As <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7113908113174049293&hl=en">reported on CNN</a> [video | 2:18], people were lined up at 10 a.m. for a 7p.m. game so they could get one of these unique mementos. The limited edition <a href="http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-may2708-lary_craig_bobblefoot.344e7094.html">"booblefoot" toys</a> are going for big bucks <a href="http://search.ebay.com/bobblefoot_W0QQcatrefZC6QQdfspZ32QQfposZQ5AIPQ2fPostalQQfromZR40QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ32QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsabfmtsZ1QQsacatZQ2d1QQsadisZ200QQsaobfmtsZinsifQQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZbs">on eBay</a>. Larry "Wide Stance" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig">Craig</a> <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gTc9gk_TbPDTurtgDIDSZcpip3UgD90UV9I00">announced</a> today that he'll tell his side of the "bathroom bust" in an upcoming autobiography. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72096 Thu, 29 May 2008 17:09:43 -0800 bobblefoot bobblehead LarryCraig StPaulSaints ericb