The Los Angeles Dodgers are turning Andy Pages' biggest moment into a bobblehead, and Toronto Blue Jays fans probably have complicated feelings about it.
The giveaway immortalizes Pages' leaping catch on the warning track in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7, the play that denied the Blue Jays a walk-off World Series celebration.
That catch has already taken on a life of its own around Toronto. Ernie Clement referenced it directly during his All-Star Game defensive gem against Pages just last week.
"I had to get him back for what he did to us in the World Series," Clement said after robbing Pages with a diving stop in the fifth inning. "It's all love. I have a lot of admiration for the way he plays the game."
Now the Dodgers are commemorating the same moment with a physical giveaway, a permanent reminder for their own fan base of exactly how their championship ended up staying alive that night.
Bobbleheads like this one usually celebrate walk-off homers or clinching outs, not necessarily a single defensive play in the middle of an inning.
But Game 7 defensive plays that alter World Series history tend to earn that kind of treatment regardless of when in the game they happened.
Why this moment still lives rent free in Toronto
For Blue Jays fans, this bobblehead lands differently than it would for a neutral observer, a visual reminder of the exact play that kept last October's dream alive for one more inning in the wrong direction.
Pages himself has earned respect around Toronto's own clubhouse despite the outcome, and Clement's own comments made that clear just days ago.
It's a bit like an ex getting a framed photo of the breakup argument. Painful for one side, a keepsake for the other.
Does a giveaway like this feel like a fair celebration of a genuinely great play, or does it just rub salt in a wound that Blue Jays fans are still nursing?
Whatever the reaction in Toronto, Dodgers fans will have a physical reminder of that catch sitting on a shelf for years to come.
Clement already got his own version of payback in July. The Dodgers just made sure Pages gets his forever.
Would you want a bobblehead of Andy Pages' Game 7 catch if you were a Blue Jays fan?
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