I'm starting work on a story about bobblehead promotions, and must say I'm getting a real kick out of some of the other promotions that baseball teams have come up with this year.

The Reds are giving away a cap featuring the fake blonde hair made to look like the locks of Bronson Arroyo and the Tigers are handing out a similar cap with a fake Magglio Ordonez 'fro.

The Royals later this month are giving away 20,000 retro powder blue T-shirts to commemorate the anniversary of the George Brett "Pine Tar" game in 1982.

Other giveaways include a T-shirt with the number of the Reds' Ryan Freel made to look like it's covered in dirt; a figure of the Phillies' Hawaiian right fielder Shane Victorino wearing a hula skirt, and a bobblehead of the Astros' Brad Ausmus on a surfboard.