The New York Yankees will as soon as once more honor their assistant to the touring secretary.
The group unveiled a George Costanza bobblehead that shall be given away for “Seinfeld Night” on Aug. 21 when the Yankees host the Boston Purple Sox.
The primary 18,000 followers in attendance will obtain a figurine of Costanza napping below his desk – as he did in an episode of “Seinfeld” when the character labored for the group.
“I love a good nap,” Costanza says within the episode. “Sometimes it’s the only thing getting me out of bed in the morning.”
Costanza, performed by actor Jason Alexander, served because the group’s assistant to the touring secretary on the NBC sitcom from the top of Season 5 via Season 8.
In a Season 8 episode titled “The Nap,” Costanza hires a contractor to change his desk so he can comfortably take naps beneath it with out being seen via his workplace home windows.
“Do you think it might be possible to add a little shelf, like, uh, for an alarm clock?” Costanza asks, earlier than additionally requesting a drawer for a blanket and a mounted cupholder.
Whereas napping later within the episode, Yankees proprietor George Steinbrenner enters the workplace and waits for Costanza to return, leaving him trapped beneath the desk.
“What is it with this guy? I’ve been waiting three and a half hours,” says Steinbrenner, voiced by Larry David. “Should I go? No way, Jack!”
It’s the second straight 12 months the Yankees have proclaimed this the “Summer of George.”
Final July, the group gave away a bobblehead of Costanza carrying a gown shirt, tie and slacks whereas in a batting stance. That likeness, in fact, was from the Season 8 episode titled “The Abstinence,” through which Costanza provides batting tricks to Yankees legends Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams.
“Hey, we won the World Series,” Jeter says.
“In six games,” Costanza replies.
Costanza had some Yankee Stadium giveaway concepts of his personal within the present, like Snow Tire Day and Jon Voight Day. But when the group wants recommendations for subsequent 12 months’s Yankees-related Costanza bobblehead, listed here are just a few: Costanza consuming a Snickers with a knife and fork, Costanza as “Bodysuit Man,” or Costanza spilling strawberries on Babe Ruth’s uniform.
Or, maybe, go along with a bobblehead of his father Frank Costanza ranting to Steinbrenner about buying and selling Jay Buhner.
