After hours of careful consideration, I had five finalists. I poured over the details of each cap, making sure I was familiar with the brand, and thus fit. Was I sure I could wear that color for the next year? Did the back have the adjustment device that I get the best results from?<\/p>\n
In the end, one winner was clear. I placed an order and it arrived, conveniently, on Opening Day. And it appears I ordered it just in time, because it is no longer available on the Rally House\u2019s website. I like that is not the traditional royal blue, but still close enough to the Royals\u2019 main color. I dig the old school KC. And yet the back is stamped with \u201cRoyals,\u201d so it is clear that I\u2019m supporting Kansas City\u2019s current team.<\/p>\n
Thus, I present my cap for the summer of 2015, and beyond.<\/p>\n
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All ya\u2019ll can rest easier now.<\/p>\n
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- In the past I\u2019ve worn a couple Kansas City Monarchs hats, a KC A\u2019s hat, and a couple \u201cfashion\u201d Royals hats. One of those was a pretty cool, deep gray color with the KC logo in blue. That was a great hat. Then I wore it one day while kayaking with a friend in late July and ruined in by pouring gallons of sweat into it. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n
- I have a pretty fly 1960 Kansas City Athletics hat<\/a> that I wear on occasion (It\u2019s fitted, and I can only wear it late in my hair cut cycle). I love the way it looks, but since the Royals are good now, I don\u2019t want people asking me \u201cWhat team is that?\u201d which happens pretty much every time I wear that cap. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lost in the early baseball season rush, I\u2019ve forgotten to share something very important with you: my summer 2015 cap choice. Frankly, I\u2019m a little surprised I haven\u2019t received angry emails demanding I reveal my pick. Allow me to rectify. I found myself in a bit of a quandary this year. Last year\u2019s cap is still in decent shape. And there was a lot of good luck contained inside of it. If you don\u2019t fuck with good luck in any sport, it\u2019s baseball. Maybe I should just go with the \u201914 hat a little longer. I do love to buy a new hat, though. It seemed wrong to deprive myself of one of the simple pleasures of spring. Which led to my other quandary: last year I wore a regular, replica Royals hat, an adjustable version of what the team wears on the field. I had not done that since at least high school, and likely middle school. And then the Royals not only break their 29-year playoff drought, but they get to game seven of the World Series. If I\u2019m replacing the hat I wore during that run, should I still stick with the standard, royal blue, KC cap? You know, messing with a streak and all. That seemed boring to me. If I\u2019m buying a new cap, it needs to be different. After all, my spring tradition isn\u2019t to buy a new version of the same hat I wore the year before, and the year before, and the year before\u2026 That\u2019s something Yankees fans do. So I ran off to the Rally House and began paging through their offerings. I am a bit picky in what I throw onto my head. First, I don\u2019t do silly. Second, because my hat size changes by between 1\/8 and 1\/4 inch between haircuts, I can\u2019t do fitted caps without trying them on in person. And while I don\u2019t mind wearing something that is evocative of Kansas City in general but perhaps not the Royals specifically,[1] given their recent success, I would like the hat to be quickly identifiable as a Royals hat.[2] After hours of careful consideration, I had five finalists. I poured over the details of each cap, making sure I was familiar with the brand, and thus fit. Was I sure I could wear that color for the next year? Did the back have the adjustment device that I get the best results from? In the end, one winner was clear. I placed an order and it arrived, conveniently, on Opening Day. And it appears I ordered it just in time, because it is no longer available on the Rally House\u2019s website. I like that is not the traditional royal blue, but still close enough to the Royals\u2019 main color. I dig the old school KC. And yet the back is stamped with \u201cRoyals,\u201d so it is clear that I\u2019m supporting Kansas City\u2019s current team. Thus, I present my cap for the summer of 2015, and beyond. All ya\u2019ll can rest easier now. In the past I\u2019ve worn a couple Kansas City Monarchs hats, a KC A\u2019s hat, and a couple \u201cfashion\u201d Royals hats. One of those was a pretty cool, deep gray color with the KC logo in blue. That was a great hat. Then I wore it one day while kayaking with a friend in late July and ruined in by pouring gallons of sweat into it. \u00a0\u21a9 I have a pretty fly 1960 Kansas City Athletics hat that I wear on occasion (It\u2019s fitted, and I can only wear it late in my hair cut cycle). I love the way it looks, but since the Royals are good now, I don\u2019t want people asking me \u201cWhat team is that?\u201d which happens pretty much every time I wear that cap. \u00a0\u21a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,83],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14045,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/14045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- I have a pretty fly 1960 Kansas City Athletics hat<\/a> that I wear on occasion (It\u2019s fitted, and I can only wear it late in my hair cut cycle). I love the way it looks, but since the Royals are good now, I don\u2019t want people asking me \u201cWhat team is that?\u201d which happens pretty much every time I wear that cap. \u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"