My Sports Tees And Miscellaneous Caps, Part 2

First cap-only edition!

I think these speak for themselves. Official replicas of the locker room editions (at least the 2008 ones).

Left: a giveaway the San Diego Padres' triple-A team in Las Vegas (a different team is there now) held at a game I attended in 1999. Right: the bucket hat. Given away at the Phils-Padres game I attended in 2005.

I'm pretty sure I bought this at the old Warner Bros. Studio Store which was at the Shops at Liberty Place. That was once a tremendous store for everything Looney Tunes. Then corporate mergers (such as Time Warner/Turner) happened and the store became watered down with Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, etc. and it was never the same. The whole chain went under and the Liberty Place spot has largely been unoccupied. After many years, there are now plans for a new store: a Bloomingdale's outlet.

While I've always been a Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes fans, I was in a phase for a while there where I was buying a number of t-shirts and other memorabilia. Why? This...



Originally airing during Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, this led to a followup during SB XXVII. Like many sequels, it was longer and inferior. And, of course, it eventually begat Space Jam. (Note: in none of these projects did Michael Jordan show even an ounce of acting talent. If LeBron James does star in Space Jam 2, it can't help but be better.)

Oh, and it also led to what is very close to the oldest cap I own...

A Ben Davis Sighting

I told you I had a baseball-related followup to my post on the Gay Community Night at the Riversharks game last week, and here it is: it seems that former major leaguer Ben Davis is a Riversharks player. He's a local boy (well, not so much a boy as he's 33 now), born in West Chester and a graduate of Malvern Prep, and was considered such a prospect as a catcher that he was the second pick overall in the 1995 Major League Baseball draft by the San Diego Padres. But he never turned into a star, and is mostly known for breaking an unwritten rule of baseball by bunting for a hit to ruin a Curt Schilling perfect game. (That's something I completely support, by the way, because the score was only 2-0 at the time and because Schilling is obnoxious.)

Now Davis, who hasn't been in a major league game since 2004, is no longer catching. He's spent the last two years trying to make a comeback as a pitcher. In last week's game he gave up 7 runs on 7 hits and 3 walks (plus the hit batter from the video I posted) in 3 2/3 innings. I had no idea he was the starting pitcher that night until I read the game recap at the Riversharks' website a little while ago. This year Davis is 2-5 with a 6.61 ERA. Opposing hitters are batting .337 against him with an on-base percentage of .390. Ouch.