Question:
I was wondering how everyone is going to wear their cap this year. Are you going to wear it slanted to one side or strait ahead.

Choices:
Slanted to one side
Strait ahead

 

Maybe out somewhere it mind get off to the side but on the baseball feild, straight ahead!

Bob

Curly,

It seems that I saw some guy named Street pitching maybe in the College World Series and some other teamates wearing their hats to the side. I want to think that it was Texas U.

Maybe you can only due it when you're at the CWS - LOL

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It was Texas. Street is one of the best closers in the nation.

Bob

Is Street still with Texas?

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What about Abe Alvarez, the crazy left from LBSU. He was my favorite pitcher to watch this year, with his fro and his hat, and his pitching, wow. Is outside appearance almost takes away from his incredible pitching ability. He changed armslots and it was quite impressive, his getup definitely help decive hitters. When you see someone looking like that on the mound, you have to think he doesn't know what he's doing, then you realize he does and it's too late.

Personally, I like it straight, but I can't seem to put it on straight, so it ends up a little crooked, or so my teammates say.

For many, many years I,too, wore a cap...this cap represented years of hard work in my chosen profession not unlke a baseball player...it designated which school I graduated from(as in which team you play for)...it offered repect to me from friends and family(same with a baseball player)..it instilled in others the confidence that I was well prepared to handle the job(as in a pitcher taking the mound)..plus it finished out the whole "uniform"...as in baseball
My profession is as a nurse...do you think if I entered a room with my "cap" to the side or backwards that a patient would ever have any trust or confidence in my skills...same with a baseball player...those that wear their caps askew are percieved as "jokers" and will always have to prove their skills in order to be taken seriously..I wore my cap with pride as it said to the world" I am a nurse...I worked long and hard to wear this cap on my head and I will not embarrass myself or my profession by making it a joke to have it on my head...so to all baseball players...wear your cap with pride and do not embarrass yourselves or your team by making it a joke to wear it

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Catchermom,

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same with a baseball player...those that wear their caps askew are percieved as "jokers" and will always have to prove their skills in order to be taken seriously

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Hold on their catchermom, aren't you stereotyping these young men? After all college is where our youth's minds create and invent. I don't believe we should ever stifle their creativity. Would you condemn a player who wears his pants up/down? I don't think U of Texas coach runs an undisciplined program by any means.

When I saw them wearing their caps at the CWS I didn't think they were trying to disrespect the instituiton of baseball in anyway. Same as when I see the different ways that players wear their rally caps in the dugout.

If we want to find faults, look to the MLB and you'll find all the disrespect you can fathom. JMHO.

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i feel it doesnt matter the way u wear the cap, i slant it to the right side of my face a little bit just to be different and people can see im a (excuse the language) "Bad ***" third basemen. lol

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how does that make u a bad *** third baseman?? i think it looks ridiculous. my opinion

Individual fashion has no place on the baseball field. If you want to standout baseball is not your sport, go play tennis. Keep the hat straight, respect the team game.

lol standing out is not the concern here, my response was a way (for me) to say, D*amn he doesnt give a C*rap, hit a ball to him..and he wouldnt care about gettin nailed in the chest to block the ball. And all third basemen's know that that is probably the #1 concern at 3rd is to block the ball and keep it in front of u just as any other position

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I am all for ceativity(afterall I am a product of the 60's generation) but there are proper places to be creative and the baseball field is not one of them...you are there to do a job not to start a fashion trend...how about the cop who responds to your complaint of an assault coming with his hat turned sideways or backwards...just because he wants to be creative...or the general who leads his troops into combat with his hat on sideways or backwards...think that instills a lot of confidence in his men...but wait he was exhibiting his freedom of expression .... a hat is part of the uniform...to be worn in a uniform fashion...as far as MLB goes there in my estimation very few who have opted to wear their hats askew...and furthermore, as far as scouts go, do you think for 1 minute they will recruit someone who is attempting to start a fad
And one other thought I would be willing to wager that most boys do not know enough to remove said hats in restaurants and Federal buildings...at my sons HS all hats were removed at the front door....no questions asked...shows respect
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I'm with Catchermom on this one. It looks ridiculous (just like jeans hanging down with underwear showing.) One of the great things about baseball is tradition and the fact it's "a gentlemans game" Assert your individuality off the field.

"There's no crying in baseball!"

how does that make you look like you dont care if the ball is hit to you?? When i see a player out there that wears a hat like that i go right after them because a lot of times they are out there to think they look good.

first of all i never said i tried to look good with it etc..and i tried not to start a fad.. and its people like you daniel that try to hit it to people like me that gives my team easy outs. My uniform isnt dressed like a gangster or anything, its just the way its with the hat, ive always done it, i dont know why i have but its juss the way its always been.. tradition? Im am respectable to the public, i dont try and start a fad or a fashion statment im just a guy that loves the game

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i realize that we are all entitled to our opinion, but i have always been successful in playing the way i do and sounds like you have been successful playing the way you do. Every one plays the game different, but if you love this game then respect it. Play and look like a ball player is what i believe in. thanks

I'll stand beside daniel on this one, if ya play the game ya ought to respect it and wear the hat right. Off the baseball fields in the farm fields i wear the John Deere hat straight out, and now i see peep wearin the older style john deere hats side ways and it makes me mad.

Respect the game...hmmm, game seems to imply a feeling of looseness, not meant to be uptight. IMO, the greatest respect you can show for a game is to have fun while playing it. I don't go around telling people to wear their hat off center or whatever, but it does give them a sense of looseness and, for lack of a real word, "fun-having". Does nobody else think that when they saw the players on Texas wearing their hats to a side, they looked relaxed, like they were really having fun? Having fun is how to respect a game (so long as no rules are broken) in my opinion.

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