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I gotta say, the Dream Team one is pretty dope.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 10:53 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 10:53 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
I remember when teams had specific colours.
posted by srboisvert at 10:59 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by srboisvert at 10:59 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
You...you can't just have all of these random teams! You have to pick your ONE team per sport and wear it.
Maybe an exception for historical stuff - I randomly wear a 1948 St. Louis Browns hat.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:00 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Maybe an exception for historical stuff - I randomly wear a 1948 St. Louis Browns hat.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:00 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Oh god, dat Michigan cap.
Just looking at that hat has turned me into a Space Jams style toon. Please don't help me - I'm happier this way.
posted by Sticherbeast at 11:02 AM on July 12, 2013 [13 favorites]
Just looking at that hat has turned me into a Space Jams style toon. Please don't help me - I'm happier this way.
posted by Sticherbeast at 11:02 AM on July 12, 2013 [13 favorites]
Does this mean we can finally be done with the spectacle of grown men wearing ball caps every. fucking. where? Double-plus-good for the demise of grown men wearing ball caps backwards every. fucking. where!
posted by Thorzdad at 11:08 AM on July 12, 2013 [16 favorites]
posted by Thorzdad at 11:08 AM on July 12, 2013 [16 favorites]
The great thing about ball caps is that the wearer can turn it around backwards to show they he/she is a rebel and doesn't conform to society's rules.
posted by item.
Or, because he's a catcher.
posted by noaccident at 11:10 AM on July 12, 2013 [8 favorites]
posted by item.
Or, because he's a catcher.
posted by noaccident at 11:10 AM on July 12, 2013 [8 favorites]
I play by my own rules. Nobody else's. Not even my own.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:11 AM on July 12, 2013
posted by Chrysostom at 11:11 AM on July 12, 2013
The dream of the 90s isn't dead, it just smells funny.
posted by a halcyon day at 11:13 AM on July 12, 2013
posted by a halcyon day at 11:13 AM on July 12, 2013
Basketball players don't wear baseball hats. My god, this writer clearly has no idea what he is talking about.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 11:15 AM on July 12, 2013
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 11:15 AM on July 12, 2013
I confess I also struggle with collecting baseball caps. I still think there are good, classic hats being made. LA, SF, Boston, Cubs, Yankees and others all have nice classic logos that haven't changed much in decades. If you bought any of these in the 80s or 90s they'd still look fine today. Weird ugly variants are made because they sell.
I still think the worst ever are the Memorial Day/Labor Day digital camouflage US army tie-ins every year.
posted by 2bucksplus at 11:20 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I still think the worst ever are the Memorial Day/Labor Day digital camouflage US army tie-ins every year.
posted by 2bucksplus at 11:20 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
(And why do the Toronto Blue Jays have a U.S. Army Stars and Stripes variant?!)
posted by 2bucksplus at 11:24 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by 2bucksplus at 11:24 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
You...you can't just have all of these random teams! You have to pick your ONE team per sport and wear it.
Maybe an exception for historical stuff...
Ball caps from the 90s are historical.
...sorry.
posted by ODiV at 11:28 AM on July 12, 2013
Maybe an exception for historical stuff...
Ball caps from the 90s are historical.
...sorry.
posted by ODiV at 11:28 AM on July 12, 2013
Ebbets Field Flannels can soothe the soul of anyone who wants a real baseball cap (and has the money to spend on real quality).
posted by Longtime Listener at 11:29 AM on July 12, 2013 [11 favorites]
posted by Longtime Listener at 11:29 AM on July 12, 2013 [11 favorites]
Basketball players don't wear baseball hats.
Yes they do, unfortunately.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:30 AM on July 12, 2013
Yes they do, unfortunately.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:30 AM on July 12, 2013
Does this mean we can finally be done with the spectacle of grown men wearing ball caps every. fucking. where?
Look, I hate baseball, and I hate baseball caps. But a man's got to cover his head with something, particularly when 'hair' is no longer an option. And a baseball cap is the DEFAULT head covering. Anything else you put up there--newsboy cap, fez, bowler, beret, fedora--can be fairly regarded by the public as a personal choice which reflects on you in some way. A baseball cap just means you haven't customized your character. It's the only hat that makes no statement apart from, 'I don't want skin cancer.'
posted by Sing Or Swim at 11:30 AM on July 12, 2013 [42 favorites]
Look, I hate baseball, and I hate baseball caps. But a man's got to cover his head with something, particularly when 'hair' is no longer an option. And a baseball cap is the DEFAULT head covering. Anything else you put up there--newsboy cap, fez, bowler, beret, fedora--can be fairly regarded by the public as a personal choice which reflects on you in some way. A baseball cap just means you haven't customized your character. It's the only hat that makes no statement apart from, 'I don't want skin cancer.'
posted by Sing Or Swim at 11:30 AM on July 12, 2013 [42 favorites]
My dad had a ball cap collection when I was a kid. Its centrepiece was a brown one with a plastic turd on the brim and the words "SHIT HEAD" emblazoned across the front. My brother wore it to high school on Hat Day and was swiftly sent home.
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on July 12, 2013 [16 favorites]
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:32 AM on July 12, 2013 [16 favorites]
Even the Official "throwback" hats are now fugly. I used to have a Washington Senators cap bought from Cooperstown (the only place you could get one) in 1995. It was dark navy wool, thick all around, with a small easy to curve brim--it fit perfectly and aged well. Now this is what they offer. Burf.
That Ebbits Field cap thing looks ok. I may get one.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:36 AM on July 12, 2013
That Ebbits Field cap thing looks ok. I may get one.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:36 AM on July 12, 2013
The kids that I've been yelling at to get off my lawn all wear these oversized abominations worn off to the side and the bill pointing upward somewhat. They keep the label on the bill.
I liked the old school baseball caps that are closer in size to a golf cap. I had an old Cleveland Indians one with their old logo I cherished until it blew off my head while on a boat.
posted by birdherder at 11:40 AM on July 12, 2013
I liked the old school baseball caps that are closer in size to a golf cap. I had an old Cleveland Indians one with their old logo I cherished until it blew off my head while on a boat.
posted by birdherder at 11:40 AM on July 12, 2013
My dad had a ball cap collection when I was a kid. Its centrepiece was a brown one with a plastic turd on the brim and the words "SHIT HEAD" emblazoned across the front.
Not nearly the masterpiece of subtlety that was my dad's cap with a picture of a pheasant and the words "NEBRASKA: BIG COCK COUNTRY."
posted by COBRA! at 11:43 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Not nearly the masterpiece of subtlety that was my dad's cap with a picture of a pheasant and the words "NEBRASKA: BIG COCK COUNTRY."
posted by COBRA! at 11:43 AM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Goddamn, your dads are awesome.
I confess to wearing a ball cap whenever it's warm enough, but I draw the line at wearing it inside at least.
posted by Think_Long at 11:54 AM on July 12, 2013
I confess to wearing a ball cap whenever it's warm enough, but I draw the line at wearing it inside at least.
posted by Think_Long at 11:54 AM on July 12, 2013
One of you guys that wears hats needs to get this and put it in your profile pic. Metafilter needs to up its street fasion game.
posted by Ad hominem at 11:54 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Ad hominem at 11:54 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I used to get my historic caps from an outfit called the Cooperstown Ballcap Company. They were beautiful - very high quality, an insane range of caps (minor leagues, industrial leagues, Central American leagues), and as historically accurate as possible. Just looking at the catalog was entertaining. Naturally, they went out of business.
It looks like they've been reincarnated as the Ideal Cap Company, but they appear to have lost their MLB license.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:56 AM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
It looks like they've been reincarnated as the Ideal Cap Company, but they appear to have lost their MLB license.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:56 AM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
And why do the Toronto Blue Jays have a U.S. Army Stars and Stripes variant?!
Away games?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 11:57 AM on July 12, 2013
Away games?
posted by The 10th Regiment of Foot at 11:57 AM on July 12, 2013
(And why do the Toronto Blue Jays have a U.S. Army Stars and Stripes variant?!)
Because most of their players are American and most of their games are in the US?
FWIW, they didn't wear those on Memorial Day, instead opting for the maple leaf cap, which is weird, because Memorial Day doesn't mean anything to Canadians. They were in Toronto that day, so wearing the jingoist American hat would have been extra weird, but the regular caps would have been more appropriate. (They did wear the jingoist American uniforms, however.)
I personally think the idea of baseball players dressing as soldiers is perverse, but, hey.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:58 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
Because most of their players are American and most of their games are in the US?
FWIW, they didn't wear those on Memorial Day, instead opting for the maple leaf cap, which is weird, because Memorial Day doesn't mean anything to Canadians. They were in Toronto that day, so wearing the jingoist American hat would have been extra weird, but the regular caps would have been more appropriate. (They did wear the jingoist American uniforms, however.)
I personally think the idea of baseball players dressing as soldiers is perverse, but, hey.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:58 AM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
The delight of high school was suddenly being allowed to wear our caps inside the entire day (unless a specific teacher had a rule against it). Our hats slowly developed the worn appearance now purchased at the mall, and because we had worn them long enough to affect their appearance, we appreciated them far more than I would anything off the hook.
When I started reading this link, I presumed that somehow the physical attributes of the ball cap were vanishing or being affected. That somehow a baseball cap would no longer be a baseball cap, but some odd head covering that wearers of the future would love and then point at history books or old photos of me and make similar comments that I make toward the founding fathers and their stockings. But, no, it's just the design. The hat remains a hat. While aghast at team hats not displaying team colors, it doesn't nearly bother me as much as the flat brimmed did I just get hit by a passing 2 x 4 which knocked my hat askew look that has spread over the last few years. Not only are the kids on my lawn, but they're wearing their hats wrong. Geesh!
posted by Atreides at 12:04 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
When I started reading this link, I presumed that somehow the physical attributes of the ball cap were vanishing or being affected. That somehow a baseball cap would no longer be a baseball cap, but some odd head covering that wearers of the future would love and then point at history books or old photos of me and make similar comments that I make toward the founding fathers and their stockings. But, no, it's just the design. The hat remains a hat. While aghast at team hats not displaying team colors, it doesn't nearly bother me as much as the flat brimmed did I just get hit by a passing 2 x 4 which knocked my hat askew look that has spread over the last few years. Not only are the kids on my lawn, but they're wearing their hats wrong. Geesh!
posted by Atreides at 12:04 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
Add me to the list of mefites who really miss the Cooperstown Collection caps. Especially the ones with the leather sweat band inside. Damn, those were nice. MLB licensing has gone down the tubes, apparently.
posted by brand-gnu at 12:11 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by brand-gnu at 12:11 PM on July 12, 2013
Does this mean we can finally be done with the spectacle of grown men wearing ball caps every. fucking. where? Double-plus-good for the demise of grown men wearing ball caps backwards every. fucking. where!Tut tut. We all know that MetaFilter does not do hats well. I believe the standard response to the suggestion that some occasions call for dressing like a grownup is, "Enjoy your retro cosplay, but don't expect me to play along."
I love my fitted Red Sox 2004 World Series cap on a number of levels. I think it cost me $30, which was the most I've ever spent, or will ever spend on a baseball cap... but I'll grudgingly admit that it was worth it.
posted by usonian at 12:15 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Does this mean we can finally be done with the spectacle of grown men wearing ball caps every. fucking. where? Double-plus-good for the demise of grown men wearing ball caps backwards every. fucking. where!
I hate when other people dress in ways I don't like, too.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 12:22 PM on July 12, 2013 [5 favorites]
I hate when other people dress in ways I don't like, too.
posted by tylerkaraszewski at 12:22 PM on July 12, 2013 [5 favorites]
My dad had a ball cap collection when I was a kid. Its centrepiece was a brown one with a plastic turd on the brim and the words "SHIT HEAD" emblazoned across the front.
You have no idea how badly I wanted this baseball cap when I was a kid.
posted by orme at 12:28 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
You have no idea how badly I wanted this baseball cap when I was a kid.
posted by orme at 12:28 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I know this opinion is out of fashion, but I strongly dislike (hate!) baseball caps with the straight, unbent bill. Bend that thing, you poser! It looks dumb sticking out like a diving board. Points severly deducted when the sticker is left on the brim as well. The horror.....
posted by but no cigar at 12:34 PM on July 12, 2013 [12 favorites]
posted by but no cigar at 12:34 PM on July 12, 2013 [12 favorites]
Like Atreides said!
posted by but no cigar at 12:35 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by but no cigar at 12:35 PM on July 12, 2013
I wear a ball cap when I am inclined to wear a hat, and I am inclined to wear a hat when I am procrastinating about getting a haircut.
posted by Mayor Curley at 12:39 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Mayor Curley at 12:39 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I wear a ball cap backward when I prefer to shade my neck instead of my face.
posted by Kwine at 12:54 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by Kwine at 12:54 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I know this opinion is out of fashion, but I strongly dislike (hate!) baseball caps with the straight, unbent bill. Bend that thing, you poser! It looks dumb sticking out like a diving board. Points severly deducted when the sticker is left on the brim as well. The horror.....
You ever read Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows?
There is a passage where he discusses polished silver. He maintains that in western countries, people polish silver because they want visitors to know they have a large staff to polish their silver.
In Japan, he says, people value a patina on silver. It shows how old the silver is and how long your family has owned it.
Same for hats.
Some people say that the unbent bill and unremoved tags mainatains resale value for collectors. Yeah maybe, but why would you wear them then. I say the real reason is to show they are new. Not old ass hats or hand-me-downs.
Other people value other things and want to tell the world something diffferent about themselves.
posted by Ad hominem at 12:54 PM on July 12, 2013 [11 favorites]
You ever read Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows?
There is a passage where he discusses polished silver. He maintains that in western countries, people polish silver because they want visitors to know they have a large staff to polish their silver.
In Japan, he says, people value a patina on silver. It shows how old the silver is and how long your family has owned it.
Same for hats.
Some people say that the unbent bill and unremoved tags mainatains resale value for collectors. Yeah maybe, but why would you wear them then. I say the real reason is to show they are new. Not old ass hats or hand-me-downs.
Other people value other things and want to tell the world something diffferent about themselves.
posted by Ad hominem at 12:54 PM on July 12, 2013 [11 favorites]
Ooh, ooh! An excuse to post one of my all-time favorite "fail" pictures.
Backwards cap guy
posted by jeremias at 1:02 PM on July 12, 2013 [15 favorites]
Backwards cap guy
posted by jeremias at 1:02 PM on July 12, 2013 [15 favorites]
I love my barrell man cap. It looks mostly like this without the sticker.
posted by drezdn at 1:06 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by drezdn at 1:06 PM on July 12, 2013
The great thing about ball caps is that the wearer can turn it around backwards to show they he/she is a rebel and doesn't conform to society's rules.
Or the person is a dad and is playing with his children on playground equipment. Upward peripheral vision must not be obstructed when climbing things meant for people half your size.
posted by rouftop at 1:17 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
Or the person is a dad and is playing with his children on playground equipment. Upward peripheral vision must not be obstructed when climbing things meant for people half your size.
posted by rouftop at 1:17 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
I wear a baseball cap everyday and I own upwards of 20 of them. I don't play ball anymore but I'm still a fan. Plus my job involves lost of sweat and dust, so the lid comes in handy. And for some reason ballcaps seem to irk stiffs. And for every ugly hat out there there's a great one from a minor league team or a place like ebbetts.com
( and I remove the sticker and bend the fuck out of the brim)
posted by jonmc at 1:22 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
( and I remove the sticker and bend the fuck out of the brim)
posted by jonmc at 1:22 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
The great thing about ball caps is that the wearer can turn it around backwards to show they he/she is a rebel and doesn't conform to society's rules.Or the person is a dad and is playing with his children on playground equipment.
Or that the person is Fred Durst.
posted by pxe2000 at 1:27 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
baseball caps with the straight, unbent bill.
Young cool guys and ladies do look awesome wearing them. But for us bald/old/not cools, we must find a good decent curve brim to keep sun and rain off the pate. And also we must rep the Washington Nationals hard.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:28 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
Young cool guys and ladies do look awesome wearing them. But for us bald/old/not cools, we must find a good decent curve brim to keep sun and rain off the pate. And also we must rep the Washington Nationals hard.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:28 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
One of you guys that wears hats needs to get this and put it in your profile pic.
Oh my. "Made by one of the most influential new artists of this time." Mmm-hm.
posted by yoink at 1:31 PM on July 12, 2013
Oh my. "Made by one of the most influential new artists of this time." Mmm-hm.
posted by yoink at 1:31 PM on July 12, 2013
I know this opinion is out of fashion, but I strongly dislike (hate!) baseball caps with the straight, unbent bill. Bend that thing, you poser! It looks dumb sticking out like a diving board. Points severly deducted when the sticker is left on the brim as well. The horror.....
The first time I saw this phenomenon, which I suddenly realize was already six years ago, I had one of those notable "I am officially a cranky Old Person" moments.
posted by usonian at 1:33 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
Whenever I think of baseball caps as fashion, I think about how, in the days of my youth (roughly, the 90s), white baseball caps had such a particular significance. Basically, if you wore a white baseball cap, you were probably an upper-middle-class, fairly preppy guy who played sports and liked to drink a lot. There was also a strong association with being kind of a dick. This was such a notable thing that such guys were even often called "whitecaps." Does anyone else remember this?
posted by lunasol at 1:34 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
posted by lunasol at 1:34 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Oh hell yeah, in DC it was a UMD hat and they were often frat or sub-frat guys.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:37 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 1:37 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh my. "Made by one of the most influential new artists of this time." Mmm-hm
That is one of the most influential new hats of this time. Just look at it. It is black, and it has a word on it. You can even wear it sideways.
posted by Ad hominem at 1:51 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
That is one of the most influential new hats of this time. Just look at it. It is black, and it has a word on it. You can even wear it sideways.
posted by Ad hominem at 1:51 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
If you have a giant noggin, you cannot find a ball cap to fit.
posted by maxwelton at 1:55 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by maxwelton at 1:55 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
That Seattle Pilots cap isn't so bad. I'd wear it. I think it's totes adorbs.
I guess the bad thing about it is that baseball caps aren't supposed to be adorbs at all.
posted by Metroid Baby at 1:56 PM on July 12, 2013
I guess the bad thing about it is that baseball caps aren't supposed to be adorbs at all.
posted by Metroid Baby at 1:56 PM on July 12, 2013
I wasn't serious about a $150 hat with a single word on it designed by a DJ who is described as one of the most influential artists of this time.
You guys are just so fun to tease, you are such curmudgeons sometimes about stuff like hats. Weren't you guys ever young and do weird stuff like leave the tags on your hats?
posted by Ad hominem at 2:13 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
You guys are just so fun to tease, you are such curmudgeons sometimes about stuff like hats. Weren't you guys ever young and do weird stuff like leave the tags on your hats?
posted by Ad hominem at 2:13 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
Sorry, Potomac Avenue, it's a Bowie Baysox cap or nothin'.
posted by wintermind at 2:25 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by wintermind at 2:25 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
I wear caps when working outside on the lawn or when driving somewhere. When the sun is shining out here on the prairie, it is pretty powerful no matter the season. My fave cap is a solid blue MN Twins cap that is just faded enough. For working on the lawn I wear a cap that was a handout at an oil company I used to work at. I hate the fuckers and that cap deserves every sweat stain or drop of engine oil that it gets.
posted by Ber at 2:28 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by Ber at 2:28 PM on July 12, 2013
Roll your bill or get off my lawn.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 2:29 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 2:29 PM on July 12, 2013 [4 favorites]
You guys are just so fun to tease, you are such curmudgeons sometimes about stuff like hats. Weren't you guys ever young and do weird stuff like leave the tags on your hats?
Ever young? I actually leave the tags on everything I wear so I can return it a week later and save on closet and drawer space AND stay hip and up to date on fashion!
posted by Atreides at 2:29 PM on July 12, 2013
Ever young? I actually leave the tags on everything I wear so I can return it a week later and save on closet and drawer space AND stay hip and up to date on fashion!
posted by Atreides at 2:29 PM on July 12, 2013
In honor of the brouhaha over choice in my home state, I have a cap with an embroidered outline of a uterus over the words "COME AND TAKE IT". It's the first cap I've ever really loved. Surprisingly comfortable for a Cafe Press special. Has elastic in the back instead of the plastic adjusty-tab, I don't know which is considered More Correct in hats.
I remember the plastic-and-netting-and-foam abominations of the 70s and 80s, i.e., trucker hats, and those things were not classic in any sense except "fugly."
They did often contain amusing statements about fishing, though.
posted by emjaybee at 2:42 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
I remember the plastic-and-netting-and-foam abominations of the 70s and 80s, i.e., trucker hats, and those things were not classic in any sense except "fugly."
They did often contain amusing statements about fishing, though.
posted by emjaybee at 2:42 PM on July 12, 2013 [2 favorites]
My Hat Collection.
If there's one thing I hate more than baseball caps, it's baseball.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:44 PM on July 12, 2013
If there's one thing I hate more than baseball caps, it's baseball.
posted by charlie don't surf at 2:44 PM on July 12, 2013
And also we must rep the Washington Nationals hard.
If you were actually an old baseball fan that would be an Expos cap.
posted by srboisvert at 2:48 PM on July 12, 2013
If you were actually an old baseball fan that would be an Expos cap.
posted by srboisvert at 2:48 PM on July 12, 2013
If you were actually an Expos fan just kidding nobody is an Expos fan.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:51 PM on July 12, 2013 [7 favorites]
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:51 PM on July 12, 2013 [7 favorites]
I don’t think I’ve seen someone wear a baseball cap backwards in 15 years. Is that really still happening, or just something hated from the past?
posted by bongo_x at 2:59 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by bongo_x at 2:59 PM on July 12, 2013
Potomac Avenue: If you were actually an Expos fan just kidding nobody is an Expos fan.
/me gazes wistfully at mon chapeau tricolore, single tear rolls down cheek...
posted by hangashore at 3:36 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
/me gazes wistfully at mon chapeau tricolore, single tear rolls down cheek...
posted by hangashore at 3:36 PM on July 12, 2013 [3 favorites]
Er, I still wear a backwards cap sometimes. In honor of Dancin' Homer.
posted by GrammarMoses at 3:39 PM on July 12, 2013
posted by GrammarMoses at 3:39 PM on July 12, 2013
I know this opinion is out of fashion, but I strongly dislike (hate!) baseball caps with the straight, unbent bill. Bend that thing, you poser! It looks dumb sticking out like a diving board. Points severly deducted when the sticker is left on the brim as well. The horror.....
Roll your bill or get off my lawn.
You do realize that baseball players haven't even been doing that for a decade, right? Modern baseball caps aren't even designed to do that anymore.
Nascar caps? Roll away. Baseball? No.
But, god, yes, take the damn sticker off for fuck's sake! (Although even that's been a thing since the early nineties, so, hey.)
posted by Sys Rq at 3:51 PM on July 12, 2013
Roll your bill or get off my lawn.
You do realize that baseball players haven't even been doing that for a decade, right? Modern baseball caps aren't even designed to do that anymore.
Nascar caps? Roll away. Baseball? No.
But, god, yes, take the damn sticker off for fuck's sake! (Although even that's been a thing since the early nineties, so, hey.)
posted by Sys Rq at 3:51 PM on July 12, 2013
Whitehats. For reasons that made sense at the time we had the season opening players dinner for my high school lacrosse team at the mall food court. Or at least tried to. Security threw us out because they couldnt believe 25 teenage boys all wearing dirty scuffed white hats were not a gang.
I'm sure we had a keg stashed somewhere for later
posted by JPD at 3:55 PM on July 12, 2013
I'm sure we had a keg stashed somewhere for later
posted by JPD at 3:55 PM on July 12, 2013
(And I totally do the backwards cap, but it's way up there à la Matthau's Oscar Madison to prevent Forehead Line Syndrome. And if the sun's in my eyes I turn it around.)
posted by Sys Rq at 3:57 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Sys Rq at 3:57 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
But, god, yes, take the damn sticker off for fuck's sake! (Although even that's been a thing since the early nineties, so, hey.)
I photographed a whole line of baseball caps for a catalog, I left the stickers on and made sure the lighting made the holograms visible. The shop owner saw the proofs and had a fit. Apparently she did not know that people leave the stickers on.
posted by charlie don't surf at 4:09 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
I photographed a whole line of baseball caps for a catalog, I left the stickers on and made sure the lighting made the holograms visible. The shop owner saw the proofs and had a fit. Apparently she did not know that people leave the stickers on.
posted by charlie don't surf at 4:09 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
After reading the comments in this thread, in some small way I now know what it must feel like to be a pro-life or anti-gay marriage Mefite.
posted by The Gooch at 6:12 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by The Gooch at 6:12 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
The only ball-cap I ever had and wore regularly was a Fall Line Films cap. I wore it plain out. I have no idea how it came into my possession--I do not ski or snowboard--and I have not worn one since. I did like that hat. The bill was rolled, as was the style at the time.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:46 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 8:46 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's the only hat that makes no statement apart from, 'I don't want skin cancer.'
Well....I really don't think so. They're far from "neutral." It definitely does make statements, just maybe ones you're more comfortable making than others.
posted by Miko at 8:55 PM on July 12, 2013
Well....I really don't think so. They're far from "neutral." It definitely does make statements, just maybe ones you're more comfortable making than others.
posted by Miko at 8:55 PM on July 12, 2013
Awww, Cooperstown... Mine is one of those 70s Brewers hats that looks like a baseball mitt until one day it clicked: "MB -- Milwaukee Brewers!"
Sadly, I live in Seattle and my son (yes that one ) is a Mariners fan. My cap wearing is mostly limited to whenever we're leaving the house and the boy has his ugly ass Mariners cap on and says "Daddy, you wear yours too." I reach for my beloved Brewers hat, and he says, "No, Mariners!" It's a bad team name with a worse design scheme. I think their colors are black and gray. And seriously, they trade Ichiro, the only likable player in the franchise's history?
Anyway, this is all relevant because the 4 year old boy has a fit every time I suggest we remove the silver sticker from his cap.
"Hey buddy, how about this super cool Giants hat?"
"No daddy, I like the Dodgers!"
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:09 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
Sadly, I live in Seattle and my son (yes that one ) is a Mariners fan. My cap wearing is mostly limited to whenever we're leaving the house and the boy has his ugly ass Mariners cap on and says "Daddy, you wear yours too." I reach for my beloved Brewers hat, and he says, "No, Mariners!" It's a bad team name with a worse design scheme. I think their colors are black and gray. And seriously, they trade Ichiro, the only likable player in the franchise's history?
Anyway, this is all relevant because the 4 year old boy has a fit every time I suggest we remove the silver sticker from his cap.
"Hey buddy, how about this super cool Giants hat?"
"No daddy, I like the Dodgers!"
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:09 PM on July 12, 2013 [1 favorite]
And seriously, they trade Ichiro, the only likable player in the franchise's history?
I was going to object to this, but you have to go all the way back to Edgar Martinez to find a counterexample. The M's love to trade away their star players.
Anyway, you could do a lot worse than the retro M's trident.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 12:10 AM on July 13, 2013
I was going to object to this, but you have to go all the way back to Edgar Martinez to find a counterexample. The M's love to trade away their star players.
Anyway, you could do a lot worse than the retro M's trident.
posted by knuckle tattoos at 12:10 AM on July 13, 2013
Chapel Hill, noted center of psychedelia.
I love how the sequence starts with basic Cubs caps. I also like the schlumpy way the caps are positioned.
posted by mwhybark at 1:00 AM on July 13, 2013
I love how the sequence starts with basic Cubs caps. I also like the schlumpy way the caps are positioned.
posted by mwhybark at 1:00 AM on July 13, 2013
And seriously, they trade Ichiro, the only likable player in the franchise's history?
First, you neglect Kawasaki, who was released, not traded, and is objectively more likeable (if less skilled) than Ichiro, and second, Ichi asked to be traded because he was suffering after the 12 years of terribleness he'd endured. Trading him was an act of mercy that humanized the idiots running things here. It also demonstrated their idiocy, but we knew all about that already.
Third, although Iwakuma's press agent seems to have stayed in Japan, he is reputed to be a likeable and good guy.
And that's just the Japanese dudes from the last year.
posted by mwhybark at 1:08 AM on July 13, 2013
First, you neglect Kawasaki, who was released, not traded, and is objectively more likeable (if less skilled) than Ichiro, and second, Ichi asked to be traded because he was suffering after the 12 years of terribleness he'd endured. Trading him was an act of mercy that humanized the idiots running things here. It also demonstrated their idiocy, but we knew all about that already.
Third, although Iwakuma's press agent seems to have stayed in Japan, he is reputed to be a likeable and good guy.
And that's just the Japanese dudes from the last year.
posted by mwhybark at 1:08 AM on July 13, 2013
item: "The great thing about ball caps is that the wearer can turn it around backwards to show they he/she is a rebel and doesn't conform to society's rules."
At least you can stop wearing baseball caps when you grow up, unlike a tattoo.
posted by double block and bleed at 5:30 AM on July 13, 2013
At least you can stop wearing baseball caps when you grow up, unlike a tattoo.
posted by double block and bleed at 5:30 AM on July 13, 2013
I'm not saying trading Ichiro was the wrong thing to do, I'm using it as an example of how difficult it is to like the Mariners
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 5:46 AM on July 13, 2013
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 5:46 AM on July 13, 2013
I'm not saying trading Ichiro was the wrong thing to do, I'm using it as an example of how difficult it is to like the Mariners
Fair enough, and I shouldn't have been all "RONG!" - I was tuned up from having just gotten in from watching Joe Saunders and Raul Ibañez disassemble the Angels. Amazingly bad bullpen pitching wrecked a shutout before Medina fixed things. So YAAY but *sigh*.
posted by mwhybark at 7:41 AM on July 13, 2013
Fair enough, and I shouldn't have been all "RONG!" - I was tuned up from having just gotten in from watching Joe Saunders and Raul Ibañez disassemble the Angels. Amazingly bad bullpen pitching wrecked a shutout before Medina fixed things. So YAAY but *sigh*.
posted by mwhybark at 7:41 AM on July 13, 2013
I finally started growing out of wearing hats a year or two ago and then developed a bald spot. Just recently added a few new ones to the collection. It started in high school (the one way to stay within in the coat & tie dress code while giving a clear middle finger) and continued through college, all of which was in the '90s, so I feel comfortable telling the author it's a fool's game to draw conclusions about baseball hats based on the designs in the '90s. I had a multi-pastel logo'd Spurs hat in corduroy for Christ's sake. The fashion police SWAT team should have tased me on the spot. People had leather hats. They were obviously ugly even then, but no one would tell the emperor he had no clothes because these emperors tended to be rappers people were afraid of at the time.
we must find a good decent curve brim
Buy any hat you like, take it home, put it in a coffee mug brim first (with a rubber band around it if you really want a rounded curve). No constant bending, no winding up with a triangular point to the brim.
posted by yerfatma at 8:44 AM on July 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
we must find a good decent curve brim
Buy any hat you like, take it home, put it in a coffee mug brim first (with a rubber band around it if you really want a rounded curve). No constant bending, no winding up with a triangular point to the brim.
posted by yerfatma at 8:44 AM on July 13, 2013 [1 favorite]
A baseball cap just means you haven't customized your character. It's the only hat that makes no statement apart from, 'I don't want skin cancer.'--Sing Or Swim
I don't want skin cancer (again), which is why, when I'm outside for a period I wear a hat that has a brim that goes all the way around, Metafilter fashion police be damned. A baseball cap gives you a false sense of security. There's more than one reason they are sometimes called redneck caps.
posted by eye of newt at 10:12 AM on July 13, 2013 [2 favorites]
I don't want skin cancer (again), which is why, when I'm outside for a period I wear a hat that has a brim that goes all the way around, Metafilter fashion police be damned. A baseball cap gives you a false sense of security. There's more than one reason they are sometimes called redneck caps.
posted by eye of newt at 10:12 AM on July 13, 2013 [2 favorites]
At least you can stop wearing baseball caps when you grow up, unlike a tattoo.
You know, I suppose I could.
posted by box at 1:22 PM on July 13, 2013
You know, I suppose I could.
posted by box at 1:22 PM on July 13, 2013
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