The New Era overlap caps
Opening Day was March 18 in Japan. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs or should I say the Los Angeles Dolaers beat the Chicago Cubs? You see every so often New Era releases a new set of baseball caps. This year the release of their “overlap” caps created so much controversy that the cap for the Texas Rangers was immediately pulled from the stores. When I looked at the caps I wondered why the Astros cap was still available. But soon it too was pulled along with the one for the Los Angeles Angels. The Texas cap with the “T” imposed in the center spelled Tetas which is a Spanish vulgarity referring to a woman’s breast. But look at the Astros’ cap. It spells As-H-os. Some would say that is appropriate given their sign stealing scandal of a few years back. The Angels’ cap is An-A-els which means “God’s grace”. I don’t know why that is offensive. But so be it. But what about the Bo-B-on Red Sox? The Los Angeles Do-LA-ers seems appropriate given that they are trying to buy another World Series title. Then there are the Seattle Ma-S-ers, The Philadelphia Phi-P-ies, the Miami M-M-mi Marlins (stutter anyone?), De-D-oit Tigers and the Washington Na-W-als Nationals.
Those lucky enough to have bought the Astros and Rangers caps before they were pulled are now selling them for $1,000+ on ebay.
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