Missives of a Baseball Milquetoast

It would be an understatement to say that I have been patiently waiting for Spring Training ever since the final out was recorded in the 2025 World Series on November 1, 2025, at Rogers Centre in Toronto. The sooner the Dodgers have a target on their backs, the better, and today marks the beginning of that chapter as the first Spring Training games are being played today! To celebrate the commencement of games today in Arizona and Florida, the cap logo on week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection honors the Cactus League by featuring the fear-inducing nature of the desert snake on a classic "Miami Nights" colorway, which highlights the vibrancy of the Grapefruit League in the Sunshine State. Teal was in the Arizona Diamondbacks original color scheme but that shade of pink is unique to Florida's aesthetic which makes this one capture the essence of both places perfectly.  The teal undervisor will help remind me of just how fresh this fresh fitted is!  ...and Clink Kong gett...

I've written about the Ft. Myers Miracle on-feld cap before so this week's Fresh Fitted is just going to be a cursory look of a custom variant of that hat.  The main colors here are black, silver and pink and this colorway definitely goes nicely with sneakers that took part in the "South Beach" trend over recent years. They could have made the brim black but I think that the gunmetal is a nice touch as is the grey underbrim. The silver M is nicely subdued on the black crown and I dig the palm tree's pink leaves. The pink detail on the New Era flag and the MILB pops nicely. This custom colorway came out in late 2014 and the inside tags are consistent with other caps from that year not excluding the aforementioned Ft. Myers Miracle on-field cap. Of course, no trip to Miami is complete without an obligatory Golden Girls reference so I've got this enamel pin of my favorite character from the show: Sofia. The text belo...