Home Run Derby

Every time Major League Baseball comes out with more camoflague hats, more USA Flag hats, more green hats (for Earth Day or St Patrick’s day), more black caps (Just Ditch It), or those FABULOUS pastel argyle Yankee hats like Roger Clemens wears, MLB continues to bastardize and trivialize its iconic logos inthe pursit of more merchandising dollars.

I thought I had had enough.  Until …

I was perusing MLB.com because I was looking to buy my 9-week old son a Cub hat (just a plain stinking blue one like they wear on the field) … and I came across this monstrosity called the New Era “Watermelon Smoothie.”

Perhaps at first glance you might say, “Big deal, it’s a Pink hat for little girls”

But look closer – there’s cutesy little Watermelons on that cap.   Next, scratch one of the little Watermelons on your computer screen, press your nose against it, and take a whiff.   Okay don’t – the internet isn’t yet adapted for you to get the full effect of the scratch and sniff technology in that cap.

Let me let that sink in.  It’s a scratch and sniff hat. 
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Did Queer Eye for the Straight Guy do a makeover for Roger Clemens lately?

Seven-time Cy Young winner and Mitchell Report namee Roger Clemens showed up at a Houston Rockets game last night.  Wearing a hat I wouldn’t put on a dog. 

Seriously – a pastel green and blue argyle baseball cap?  Who the heck makes that anyway? 
And what man would even consider wearing it? 

I mean, besides Roger Clemens, obviously.   I wonder if there’s an Erasure song (or five) on Clemens’ iPod.

Mind you, some Baseball teams think you’ll wear Argyle caps. 

This one from the New York Yankees is actually pretty sharp. 

Keeping the Bombers’ color scheme works really well on that cap. 
The same cannot be said for the following monstrosities …
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