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OT: The Toronto Blue Jays

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So apparently they’re starting a war with this.

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New Era pulls widely mocked 'Local Market' caps

New Era pulled its line of MLB-affiliated "Local Market" hats from its website following widespread mockery on social media Tuesday.
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Hours after releasing a new line of MLB-affiliated "Local Market" hats on Tuesday, New Era pulled the product from its website.

New Era is the official cap supplier to MLB. The line featured a combination of team logos, local area codes, landmarks, World Series logos and other local tie-ins scattered over the hats. Social media reacted with mockery, and New Era later removed the collection from its site. New Era has not yet responded to a request for comment from ESPN.

The New York Yankees cap, for instance, featured five area codes, the Statue of Liberty, an apple, a slice of pizza, a boom box on the rear above a "NEW YORK" stencil, along with the words "New York The Empire State" in cursive script above a World Series logo.

The Los Angeles Dodgers cap displayed nine area codes, plus a pair of palm trees on the front. The California state bear made an appearance on the side of the hat, as did a taco on the back.

The Atlanta Braves cap had what appeared to be a UFO on the front. The back of the Orioles hat included a silhouette of Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe. The Seattle Mariners cap featured a cup of coffee.

The Cleveland Indians edition included a pierogi on the back, while the Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Nationals caps both featured an identical "1776" logo.

The Kansas City Royals version highlighted four area codes -- none of which are in Missouri, where the Royals actually play their games. The team's social media account appeared to have some fun with the omission, changing its official Twitter bio to read: "Located in Kansas City, Mo., we love Kansas area codes, saxophones, the flag of Kansas City, pigs, Missouri and the 1985 World Series."
 
Oh man, I'm looking at these things and they are awful. Someone gonna lose their job. Like not only are the designs awful and overly busy, but it looks like they made the patches from a free 1996 clip art myspace page.

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Here Are MLB's Local Market Hats in All Their Glory

Today, May 25, was the day MLB released their Local Market hats to the general public. Similar to how every team now has an alternate jersey that pays homage to
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LOL! Oh god, I would love to see the frantic, blame-shifting messages going around at New Era right now.

Each hat is worse than the next. I like the comment on the Texas cap, which features a clip art cowboy hat on the front: they put a picture of a hat on a hat.

I really hope they didn’t make thousands of these in anticipation of sales. But I suspect that’s not what happened. New Era deserves to lose the contract with MLB for this.
 
Having seen all of them now, I feel so much better about that Jays abortion. They didn't give the Jays hat to an 8 yr old with clipart from Windows 95 to design because Fuck Canada, they gave an 8 yr with Windows 95 clipart all of the hats to design.
 
I think the best part is that not only did someone decide that filling half the front of a baseball hat design with area codes was a good idea, but that they fucked up on using the proper area codes for half the cities.
 
Rained out tonight meaning two seven inning games tomorrow meaning Manoah is more likely to throw a CG no hitter in his debut. Congrats in advance, Alek!
 
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