Uni Watch looks at Major League Baseball's rather messy attempt to
honor our returning veterans during the Independence Day weekend and later, on September 11:
Does that mean MLB teams will be wearing the star-spangled caps on those dates? As it turns out, yes.
For now, though, we can look at the caps themselves, most of which are pretty ridiculous. A few immediate observations and reactions:
• All of the caps are navy, which will look okay for some teams but will clash really badly for others.
• Why navy, by the way? Isn’t the blue in the American flag more of a royal?
• The White Sox and Reds had already announced plans to wear camouflage jerseys during the Fourth of July weekend. So I guess now they’ll be adding these caps to the mix.
• Does the September 11th component of this promotion mean that the Mets will no longer be wearing first responder caps on that date, as they’ve done ever since the World Trade Center attacks?
• What about the Blue Jays? They’ve been given a Canadian flag version of the cap, which is somewhat weird on a couple of fronts. First of all, they’re playing on the road on the Independence Day weekend and on September 11th (and also on July 1st, which is Canada Day), so they’ll be wearing a foreign flag while playing in America and marking an American holiday. Secondly, is Welcome Back Veterans intended to help Canadian vets along with American ones? (There’s nothing on the charity’s web site to indicate one way or the other.) How many Canadian troops are even fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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