{"id":47979,"date":"2021-06-18T23:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47979"},"modified":"2021-06-18T23:31:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T04:31:50","slug":"i-dont-want-this-i-need-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47979","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t want this, I need this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-47980 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/montomgery_kimchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/montomgery_kimchi.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/montomgery_kimchi-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I don\u2019t want to think about what I would\u2019ve done if I had never known about this until it was too late.\u00a0 Despite my general ambivalence towards MLB these days, my general love for <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">minor<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> league baseball has never waned, and I feel fairly confident I could go to the grave thinking minor league baseball is vastly superior to their stuffy, corporate, money-grubbing major league big brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But the Montgomery Biscuits, the Double-A affiliates of the Tampa Bay Rays, as in Montgomery, Alabama, one of the largest redneck populations in the country, for whatever reason, is doing a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/montgomery\/tickets\/koreanheritage\">Korean heritage night<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, where they are going 200% balls to the wall all in on it, to where they\u2019re even changing their name to Montgomery Kimchi for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">More importantly, they are releasing a variety of branded gear for the occasion, and even more than the NXT UK Tag Team championship belt replica that I covet that seems like it will never be released, I realize that don\u2019t just want a Montgomery Kimchi cap, I absolutely 17,000% NEED a Montgomery Kimchi cap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Like, I wanted a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neweracap.com\/medias\/sys_master\/root\/hb7\/h5c\/8915940343838\/8915940343838.png\">Florida Marlins<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> cap before their identity transformed.\u00a0 I kind of wanted a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/thumbs.worthpoint.com\/zoom\/images1\/1\/0816\/13\/atlanta-braves-era-screaming-indian_1_561c24035d99571d2d8399c18054ab1c.jpg\">Chief Nokahoma<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> cap or a fucked up <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/d2h1pu99sxkfvn.cloudfront.net\/b0\/13117045\/571036586_CDe5m2OpMo\/P0.jpg\">Cleveland Indians<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> cap for their ironic notoriety.\u00a0 I wanted a large variety of minor league caps from my travels, like the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/71sjKxuvhDL._AC_UL1500_.jpg\">Modesto Nuts<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, and I actually went to some pretty great lengths to get the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lehigh-pigs-bacon-hat.jpg\">sliced bacon cap<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs because I wanted that too.\u00a0 And I actually have a <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"https:\/\/i.ebayimg.com\/images\/g\/lZcAAOSw~zJfeABx\/s-l300.jpg\">Montgomery Biscuits cap<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, and despite being one of the prime centers of the Confederacy, I actually liked the city of Montgomery and their ballpark, and the brand and colors were so gaudy and cheesy that I wanted that too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But when the Montgomery Biscuits transform into Montgomery Kimchi, I won\u2019t just want a cap, I WILL NEED A CAP.\u00a0 Full stop, period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I haven\u2019t been this excited about something to throw money at in ages.\u00a0 I\u2019ve already got the Montgomery Biscuits\u2019 shop site perma-opened in a tab, I\u2019ve got their Twitter account open and ready to refresh daily to see when they\u2019ll drop.\u00a0 I will be ready to go to war for a Montgomery Kimchi hat, and make it look like Dragon*Con Marriott room day seem like the demand for a Stryper cover band.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I already had a soft spot for the Montgomery Biscuits, because I liked their park and I liked their identity.\u00a0 This kind of outreach and promotion not only makes me love them forever, but more apt to become a supporter of the Rays, since the Braves are shit and I\u2019ll need someone to root for that I can give a shit about and not just the pursuit of being right and riding on the hopes that the Padres go all the way just to make me look smart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Either way, I\u2019m going to be lowkey anxious about my need to get Montgomery Kimchi merch, and probably a little bit crazy until I can secure some.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll go even more ballistic if I manage to get a Kimchi cap and it turns out to be <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 12pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38453\">one of those shitty Elmer Fudd quality<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> caps and my life will be over.\u00a0 But all the same, I will need a Montgomery Kimchi cap.\u00a0 And probably a shirt, but the kimchi mascot in a men\u2019s large is already fucking sold out, and I can only hope they\u2019ll replenish and realize that there are hundreds to thousands of Koreans out there that will want them and be willing to throw down cash to get them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Seriously though, fuckin\u2019 Alabama of all places in United States to throw Korea a little bit of love.\u00a0 Montgomery, no less, where the actual fucking White House of the Confederacy still stands to this very day, is the city that realizes that Koreans are a massive untapped well of cash willing to go gonzo over a little bit of love being shown.\u00a0 But it\u2019s working all the same, and I\u2019m ready to go to war to get my kimchi cap.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t want to think about what I would\u2019ve done if I had never known about this until it was too late.\u00a0 Despite my general ambivalence towards MLB these days, my general love for minor league baseball has never waned, and I feel fairly confident I could go to the grave thinking minor league baseball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47979\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don\u2019t want this, I need 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