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See this baseball cap<\/a>?\u00a0 I want this baseball cap.\u00a0 I must have this baseball cap.<\/span><\/p>\n It is a piece of bacon.\u00a0 ON A BASEBALL CAP.\u00a0 A totally legit, NewEra baseball cap.<\/span><\/p>\n I have to have this.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s one problem, though.\u00a0 They\u2019re the baseball cap of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, a minor-league team of the Triple-A level.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to Allentown PA, to see the home of the Iron Pigs, late last season; nice park, in spite of Nazi-like park employees.\u00a0 The problem is however, the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs are affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies.\u00a0 As an Atlanta Braves fan, I very much dislike the Phillies, and if it were up to me, I would like to not support them in any capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n But this cap.\u00a0 It has a piece of bacon on it.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It should come in green as well, to represent the envy I have for a\u00a0Phillies affiliate<\/em>\u00a0having claim over such a brilliant piece of fan apparel.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s inevitable that I\u2019m going to get the bacon cap.\u00a0 As much as it sort of defeats the preceding words, I actually already have an Iron Pigs cap, from when I went there last season.\u00a0 It was raining when we were there, which forced us to go into the team store, where we discovered that everything in the store was on massive discount because it was three days before the end of the Triple-A season, and the store was trying to unload as much stock as they could to make room for the following season\u2019s merch, like the vaunted bacon cap that I\u2019m pining for so hard.\u00a0 So ultimately, it\u2019s really going to be nothing new if and when I get the bacon cap.<\/span><\/p>\n Additionally, the existence of the bacon cap makes me feel really resentful towards the Braves, and any other organization that has lame minor league affiliate names.\u00a0 But none are worse than the Braves, whom literally all but one of their minor league affiliates are all called \u201cBraves.\u201d\u00a0 Gulf Coast, Danville, Rome, Mississippi, Gwinnett, they\u2019re all \u201cthe Braves.\u201d\u00a0 Same colors, same branding, all boring.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that I favor the Lynchburg Hillcats, and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans that preceded them, because they\u2019re campy and different, the way minor league baseball is supposed to be.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s just not fair.\u00a0 I look forward to getting my eventual bacon cap, and I can already see it ranking within my top-3 minor league cap preferences, but unless the Phillies decide to affiliate with another team, it\u2019s always going to have that bittersweet notion of supporting an enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See this baseball cap?\u00a0 I want this baseball cap.\u00a0 I must have this baseball cap. It is a piece of bacon.\u00a0 ON A BASEBALL CAP.\u00a0 A totally legit, NewEra baseball cap. I have to have this. There\u2019s one problem, though.\u00a0 They\u2019re the baseball cap of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, a minor-league team of the … Continue reading Not fair. NOT FAIR.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,131,64,15,52],"class_list":["post-38328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-branding","tag-minor-leagues","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38330,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions\/38330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}