The big news around baseball this week was the New York Mets reuniting with their superstar first baseman Pete Alonso on a two-year deal worth $54M. While the $10M signing bonus is an unfathomable sum for most folks to comprehend, Alonso could have net even more had he not turned down the $158 seven year deal the Mets offered in June 2023.
I should note that I find pocket-watching tacky and my approach to the game is based in emotion rather than a place based in accounting! In any case, it is fun for fans to goad the ownership of their beloved teams to pay "whatever it takes" to bring back beloved players like Alonso, especially after giving out a massive payday to Juan Soto this offseason.
As a San Francisco Giants fan, I am pleased with the free agent signings of Willy Adames and Justin Verlander but cannot avoid being annoyed by the Los Angeles Dodgers even busier offseason as well as in recent years where they've managed to rope in Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts who are all players I would love were they not on the Dodgers!
I do have to admit the Dodgers are doing right by their fans and I applaud their owner donating over $100M toward the LA wildfire recovery efforts. Perhaps the bickering between Alonso and the Mets would seem less petty if both sides just kick over the funds needed repair the Tropicana Field roof which was destroyed by Hurricane Milton in his hometown of Tampa.
Once again I must reiterate I am in no position to to dictate how others allocate their funds as I should be the first to comment how reckless I am with my hat purchases! All kidding aside, this is only the fourth "City Connect" cap I've written about, one of which was the cap worn by the Tampa Bay Rays.
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| I love the pop of purple on the button to symbolize the 7 train most of us take to get to games at CitiField as well as the almost understated rendering of the Queensboro Bridge stitched onto the cap's front. |
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| The griptape undervisor and gradient sweatband on the Rays "City Connect" cap are my favorite aspects of that one but as a New Yorker, the cement undervisor in homage to the city's streets and the sweatband design as a nod to the subway lines that connects everyone in the city makes this one the clearcut winner. |
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| Seeing "New York City" in that lettering was tugging on my heartstrings before even learning that the font was only used for one season on the Mets road grey jerseys in 1987 in an write up on Uniwatch discussing the team's 2024 City Connect designs. |
This week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is not going on the Trading Block however please don't hesitate to reach out if you want any other cap from that list and you are willing to part with any of the hats on my Wish List.
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