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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, May 25, 2021MLB’s Terrible New ‘Local Market’ Hats Must Be Seen To Be Believed
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Posted: May 25, 2021 at 04:36 PM | 51 comment(s)
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1. Barry`s_Lazy_Boy Posted: May 25, 2021 at 04:50 PM (#6020772)Aesthetically terrible and symbolically worse. Well done.
Oh boy. I remember when they started adding area codes to the New York area, and some people were apoplectic about losing the 212.
Is that still a thing?
Is that still a thing?
Not really, since nobody (not actually nobody, but pretty close) has a 212 cell phone number. Early cell phone adopters mostly have 917, people like me have 646; I think now they are on 347 but maybe some people still get 646 numbers...
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MLB seems to have kind of botched this; it they want to do a cap, just replace the cap logo with a city logo, or, alternatively, do the whole uniform.
OTOH, I remember going to games and seeing people with every remotely baseball/locality-related pin imaginable on their hat, so there's certainly a market for cluttered design.
I would say these designs are bizarre, but after the Yankees fruit salad hat, nothing in baseball fashion seems that strange anymore.
NASCAR fans, maybe?
I think Manfred sucks but c'mon, do we really think he had anything to do with this? MLB sold the rights to New Era, New Era wanted to be "fleek" with the youths.
Foreign tourists. The vast majority of whom won't know that the 'NY' (for example) on the hats refers to a specific sports team rather than the city in general, and some of whom will enjoy the additional . . . local color plastered all over them.
I occasionally get the temptation, here in Europe, to ask people wearing a Dodgers, Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Cubs, or Tigers cap if they can name any player who ever played for the team. It passes quickly.
I had a friend (my age, mid-50s) who wanted to see road signs with area codes and zip codes: "Now entering 48185". He was serious.
This guy cared. (He's 43.)
So did Dallas Braden, and he's only 37.
I think it would be great to know when you're entering a certain zip code's polygonal area.
I think one of the complaints is that the Royals area codes are for locations in Kansas, and doesn't even contain the area code that the stadium is located in.
Toronto is listed with just one area code (416), even though there are two others (905/647).
And let's not get into the stupid symbols they chose for some teams...
"New Coke" and "Edsel" level of failure.
#25 is not getting the love it deserves.
I was wondering "how could the top 10 possibly be worse than many of these?"
I was not disappointed. had the top 10 been slideshow-style I would've broken my own rule and continued clicking.
I was wondering "how could the top 10 possibly be worse than many of these?"
I was not disappointed. had the top 10 been slideshow-style I would've broken my own rule and continued clicking.
I have to admit, even though I know the "Popped-out mesh" hat is objectively terrible and I would never wear it, I did look to see if they sell a Mets version of it. Thankfully, no.
On the other hand, they're objectively terrible.
Though it seems more like something driven by a focus group and then sent to a committee to design and build - which mostly results in bad (but not usually this bad).
They are like the hat version of the car that Homer Simpson designed.
Dan Szymborski upgraded it.
Warning! Warning! Zip Code discussion imminent! Abandon blog, abandon blog!
Personal highlights: Atlanta's 9(?) area codes, Pittsburgh's Steel I-Beam, Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe, Minnesota's hamburger(?), Washington's 1776(?), and Oakland's palm trees(?). It really feels like these caps were an elaborate troll/marketing scheme, but who knows.
It just needs speed holes, then it would be perfect.
It's a jucy lucy, I assume?
At least one can decipher the pierogi on the back of the Cleveland cap. No, it's not a guy in a pierogi costume like the one that races in Milwaukee, but a...pierogi. I kinda want Cleveland's cap now.
Please wear a mask and respect social distancing as you line up for this gem, Cheektowagans.
I was thinking the same thing.
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