Tag: minor leagues

The weekend I’d been looking for

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Prior to the start of the baseball season, this past weekend was one particular weekend that I had mentally earmarked as one of weekends that I was looking forward to the most.  Sure, I have ambitions and plans of grandeur when the summer arrives, and in a perfect world, I make every flight, the weather is never an issue, and I’m able to tackle four new MLB and six new MiLB ballparks before the start of July.  However, things haven’t worked out so kindly throughout the span of the last few weeks, and be it poor weather, unlucky flight conditions or both, a lot of my trips have been derailed and ultimately cancelled, leaving me kind of distraught, and with more time to brood and go crazy.

But this past weekend was undoubtedly the one weekend I was looking forward to immensely, because it combined several things going for it that if they all worked out, would lead to a successful good time.

Fortunately for me, with the weekend now a time frame in the past, I can say that basically everything did work out, and it was a successful good time, and I’m quite pleased with it, to the extent that it’s worth writing about, because frankly, I think a lot of my posts throughout the last few weeks have kind of had an undertone of disappointment or an unhappy sentiment to some of them.

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The bacon cap saga: fin

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In case any of my six readers have forgotten the back story, I was displeased with the bacon cap I enthusiastically ordered, because the fit was odd, and the shape of the hat was kind of bulbous.

As much as I tried to really love the cap, I just couldn’t get around the fact that it made my head look like The Head, and the rim of the cap would dig into my ears. Upon some research about NewEra caps, I discovered that the reasoning behind such a shoddy product was the fact that the bacon cap, like the vast majority of minor league baseball caps, were manufactured in China, where the results have been notorious for being inconsistent and misshapen.

Long story short, I discovered that the bacon cap was offered from MLB.com directly, where they clearly state that it is made in the USA, so I ended up ordering it again, with hopes that the claims would be true, and I would get a bacon cap that fit and looked right. Otherwise, I was ready to wage war with MLB.com if they dared send me another shoddy Chinese-made bacon cap.

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Francoeu’wned

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Long story short: baseball player Jeff Francoeur is fooled by his teammates into believing that a fellow teammate was deaf.  For an entire month.

Now I doubt any who follows my brog is really aware of this, but when I used to be a writer for Talking Chop, and an active member of the community, I had a 15-second glimpse of internet notoriety when I had made a t-shirt in “honor” of Jeff Francoeur, where I took the generic composition of a player jersey t-shirt (aka “the shirsey”) and replaced “Francoeur” with “Failcoeur.”  I was dumb(er) and immature (then), and let the nerdy, results-driven frustration of an overly passionate baseball fan take the driver’s seat in that period of time which gave birth to the concept and execution of the design, despite the fact that it was coming at someone else’s expense.

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And now we wait

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So on my ongoing quest to try and rectify the tragedy that is the sub-par, Chinese-made NewEra bacon cap and my now dissatisfaction with NewEra as a company, I’d been doing some research on what my options were.  The bottom line is that I still want a bacon cap, but I wanted a bacon cap that fit me well, regardless of if it were made in China or the United States.

Given the fact that all of the NewEra caps that I own that were US-manufactured fit well, and don’t bulge out like Elmer Fudd’s hat, I would prefer a US-made bacon cap, but honestly when the day is over, I don’t care where it’s made as long as it sits well and looks satisfactory to me.

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NewEra caps aggravate me

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After an overwhelming demand caused a delay on orders to be sent out, I received my long-awaited bacon cap over the weekend. When the mailman rang the door bell, I honestly felt like a kid on Christmas, knowing what would be waiting at the door step.

I was ecstatic to have finally gotten my bacon cap, and I couldn’t wait to add this to my collection of goofy minor league baseball caps. I had already had thoughts of putting it in my top three favorite caps, because come on, it’s a slice of bacon, on a NewEra cap.

I gave the bill a gentle bend, because I’m not a tool and I do not like the bill of my baseball caps to be completely flat, and immediately put it on my head. And that’s where the story takes a turn for the worst.

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It’s about time

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This is to confirm that your recent purchase at the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Official Store (Order# redacted), has been shipped.

Your order is being shipped via U.S. Priority Mail with tracking number redacted.

The bacon cap is on its way.  Halle-fuckin’-llujah.  This is wonderful news going into the weekend that can only be sufficiently personified by Taylor Swift.

Of course there’s a problem

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I am not one of the privileged that may have already received my order.  So it looks like I will be experiencing a “slight” shipping delay of one to four weeks for my fucking bacon cap.

Honestly, this really isn’t that much of a surprise; after all, the Iron Pigs are affiliates of the Phillies, who well, suck.

But god damn it, I really want my bacon cap.