Posted on 08/25/2007 12:57:39 PM PDT by george76
LOL!
Now if they could only make a hat that cannot be worn backward or ridiculously askew.
The one with a crown is a major alteration of the logo. I find it hard to believe this didn't get vetted by MLB licensing at some point.
OMG, that's unbelievable. MLB is going to sit there and play stoopid about something like this? Just what made them choose styles and designs like that if not to appeal to dumbass white suburban kids who want to wear this crap to go along with the "fight the power" music while they're cruising around in daddy's Escalade? (I'm sorry, I just wanna smack those kids, I really do... thinking they identify with a poor black kid growing up in a war zone... but that's another rant.)
But then there's this - what if aforementioned white suburban dumbass finds himself lost on his way home from a ballgame with the wrong colors on and gets his dumb ass shot for it? Do mom and dad get to sue Major League Baseball?
It wasn’t just the color, these caps were clearly gang-related. And New Era is on crack if they think anyone is going to buy that line about it “just being brought to their attention”.
And now that they are being pulled the ones that sold will be big collectors items.
And in a somewhat related story, wearing a Texas Longhorns shirt into the wrong bar can be hazardous to ‘da boyz’, if you catch my drift.
The Yankee’s logo is even off center on the bloods and crips versions to encourage that lame, dated off-kilter style!
Right. The black cap and uniform are for their Oakland Raider fan contingent.
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Look again and you’ll see Kitty Dukakis and Elizabeth Edwards in the background, plotting.
Amen! Yankees fans= gangs, gays, and goils.
OMG Monk you are out of control that funniest photoshop LOL!
No gang member in NYC wears black and orange or black and royal blue as his colors.
As you ride the subway it is quite noticeable that almost no black male under the age of 40 wears any Met gear at all - while there are various color schemes of Yankee gear for both Crips and Bloods to wear. You will see ten black teens wearing a Nationals jersey before you see one wearing any Mets gear of any kind.
White Yankee caps with the Yankee "NY" symbol in cobalt blue (not navy) are a dime a dozen.
Bright red Yankee caps with the Yankee "NY" in white are even more common.
And matching jerseys.
Also, the Mets have been wearing black uniforms for home games since the 1998 season - the black jerseys and caps have actually been used for league play for almost a decade, five years before the current resurgence in street gangs in NYC began.
The only Mets hats you see on the street that are not actually worn by Mets in league play are the orange and green ones that they give out on Irish Day at Shea and which have been widely bootlegged throughout the suburbs.
Last year I watched a teenaged Dominican Met fan (wearing the classic royal and orange cap, actually) get ragged on by his Yankee-gear-sporting friends for supporting a "whiteboy team" (Jose Reyes? Jorge Sosa?).
By that point you're just giving it up willingly.
Anyone claiming to not recognize these as deliberate marketing to gangs is living under a rock, or is the biggest liar since Bill Clinton. The use of red or blue bandannas has been the #1 most recognizable gang symbol over the years. The closest of these three to being "ambiguous" is the Yankees hat with the gold crown. But, as the photo caption says on FoxNews - it is an exact rendition of the "Latin Kings" gang symbol, down to the slant of the crown.
Except that none of my fellow Raider fans—that I know anyway—are Mets fans.
(Unless you’re among those that have been brainwashed about the Silver and Black courtesy of your drive-by media.)
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