Yanks to channel Fred Durst on Memorial Day
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When it comes to Yankee hats for different occasions, I consider myself something of a connoisseur. I have hats from various World Series and other special events dating back to 1996 when the MLB patch craze kicked off. I might skip this year’s Memorial Day tie-in.
For the second year in a row, as part of an effort to fund the veterans’ organization Welcome Back Veterans, MLB teams are donning special hats. Last year, the hats were blue with a flag logo. Every team, no matter their regular colors, wore that blue hat.
This year, the hats look a little different. As Darren Rovell reported this week, the Memorial Day hats will be red this year with the stars and stripes logo. At $37, they cost a pretty penny, but all of the proceeds go to Welcome Back Veterans.
Personally, I love the idea but hate the execution. I can’t argue with MLB’s efforts to aid veterans support groups. But can’t we do it in a way that won’t have my favorite team sporting the Fred Durst look on Monday? The Yankees are definitely not doing it all for the nookie, and red hats are so 1999.
A tip of the hat to WasWatching for teeing up the hats this morning.
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I’m buyin one
it’s all about the collective hats!
what?!?
The collective caps!
What?!?
So you can take that cap and stick it in yo $$%#!!
…..awkward
I need to take a shower now. I feel dirty.
I can only assume the Red Sox hats will be Blue, since that’s the only color they wear now.
Actually it looks like every team will be wearing a red cap.
http://shop.mlb.com/category/i.....cp=2325112
If every team is wearing a red cap that day, it really doesn’t bother me.
Yeah, but we’re turning into fuckin circus clowns here.
I don’t want to end up like this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.fan.....en-180.jpg
Ha, I hear you. I guess it just doesn’t bother me as long as it’s one day, for an appropriate cause, and everyone is just as humiliated as we are. I understand the backlash though.
One day, appropriate cause, every team does it? Fine with me. But, MLB isn’t known for its restraint when it comes to marketing/apparel sales, so I guess this opens the door for them to pull more of this sh*t. If that happened… The Dude would not abide.
Love the Big Lebowski reference.
My buddies didnt die face down in the muck for these crappy looking red hats.
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/impor.....9fac_o.jpg
We should rock this on the field of play instead.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/.....gangs1.gif
Tight.
Fresh.
I, for one, would love to see Teixeira rocking the gang hat at first base.
They’re not a gang, they’re a social group.
a subculture, per say
Just thing of how awesome it would look on Aceves.
That would really spur on the “is it racist to call him the Mexican Gangster?” debate we keep having here.
Indeed.
Pfft, you’re an official YES blog now. A little racial controversy never hurt anyone.
Oh, wait…
Thats whats up
MOVE IN NOW MOVE OUT
HANDS UP NOW HANDS DOWN
BACK UP BACK OUT
TELL ME WHATCHU WANNA DO NOW
KEEP ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN
OMG! ITS TEH UNDERTAKERZ!!11!111!!! [/Jim_Ross]
Ewww, I can’t believe the Yankees are going to wear a red hat. I know it is a business so they wouldn’t just use the one from last year, but I would have preferred something else. Well, at least its only for a day.
I hope it rains in Arlington on Monday.
can we have future uniform day again just s we can see the dejected look on damons face when he has to be subjected to it for the second time in his career? maybe zip up wetsuits? hahaha
Oh god. Those things in 1999 were horrendous. I really wish I could find pictures of those.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com.....8ef9_o.jpg
Theres Damon.
And here’s more from an old angelfire website. Internet circa 1999 ftw.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....4f3d_o.jpg
Wait. I completely forgot that Orel Hershiser was on the Mets in 1999. Wow.
benigno probably wishes theyd move to mercury. seriously whose bad idea was that.
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That hat is pure horror
You mean the Yankees are going to produce a ton of bad music, kiss and tell with Britney Spears, and then fade from public view? All on Memorial Day? That’s going to be one busy day.
that hat is ugly. blah. ew. yuck.
[...] But it is what it is. This is, after all, the same team that just went 8-2 on the homestand and is just one game behind the Red Sox for first place in the AL East. Game time is 2:05 p.m., and the Yanks will be wearing the Fred Durst-inspired Memorial Day hats. [...]