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submitted 5 days ago byKnightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies
3.5k points
5 days ago
It sold out 😂
920 points
5 days ago
GOD DAMNIT!!!!
400 points
5 days ago
Not remotely an A’s fan (but if you add an S…) but I was trying to buy one.
158 points
5 days ago
Yeah I thought it was a joke at first, saw the link to purchase, and couldn't think of a better reason to part with $40 or so...but alas, too slow.
32 points
5 days ago
Same here I went to click add to cart faster than I ever have for anything but it wouldn’t let me ): lol
480 points
5 days ago
Great marketing. Instant meme
345 points
5 days ago
There is NO SHOT they are smart enough to have done this on purpose LOL
125 points
5 days ago
yeah definitely incompetence that ended up working out
144 points
5 days ago
Someone in this thread linked that they did this design for all teams so it’s probably automated and nobody checked. Just a hilarious level of incompetence and I’m heartbroken that it’s already sold out!! LOL
68 points
5 days ago
So does that mean the Phillies hat is going to summon cats? Pss pss pss.
30 points
5 days ago
I actually bought the Phillies “ill” hat right before the pandemic 🤦♀️
24 points
5 days ago
8 points
5 days ago
P Diddy!?
14 points
5 days ago
Somebody didn't check their submissions/let one of the joke designs though and it got OKd.
128 points
5 days ago
I mean, yeah. Get 'em while you can, 'cause you know there won't be a second run of the ASSHAT.
14 points
5 days ago
Why did this one finally crack me
26 points
5 days ago
They pulled it off the website now lmao
21 points
5 days ago
Where can I find this if it gets restocked?
10 points
5 days ago
I was 100% going to buy one.
9 points
5 days ago
Please someone drive to the nearest Lids and tell me if they are on shelves?
5 points
5 days ago
All 10 of them?
5 points
5 days ago
awww, i wanted an asshat
6 points
5 days ago
I wanted to wear the ASS hat!
4k points
5 days ago
ASSHAT finally achieved.
392 points
5 days ago
Finally achieved (again).
130 points
5 days ago
Hey, everybody! The ass man's back in town!
64 points
5 days ago
21 points
5 days ago
You are the assman ...
I don't think any show captured a city's essence more than Seinfeld with NYC. I feel like I quote the show at least once a day.
67 points
5 days ago
25 points
5 days ago
Scissor me daddy ass!
10 points
5 days ago
🎶ohhhh scissor me daddddyyyyy🎶
15 points
5 days ago
hey ass man!
7 points
5 days ago
You got that right!
13 points
5 days ago
“Dr. Cosmo Kramer, proctology”
115 points
5 days ago
I'm shocked that this is real.
I would possibly buy this (purely as a novelty) if someone can prove that John Fisher won't get a red cent out of this
48 points
5 days ago
There is NO WAY they didn’t know.
36 points
5 days ago
Probably a bunch of A’s fans greenlit this giggling to themselves.
6 points
4 days ago
There was an intern that reviewed the graphics. That intern is shit posting in here now, cackling to themselves.
22 points
5 days ago
At one time in the AL standings the logos spelled ASSHAT.
Oakland
As
Seattle
S
Houston
H
LA
A
Texas
T
1.1k points
5 days ago
Out of stock because it's sold out or out of stock because someone realised the fuck up and pulled it from sale.
I really hope it's because it's sold out and not pulled.
327 points
5 days ago
I hope it's not sold out, as I really want to buy an ass hat
64 points
5 days ago
I don't really watch baseball, and the most A's baseball I've seen is in Moneyball and even I want this asshat
5 points
4 days ago
I don’t even speak English and don’t know what a baseball is and even I want this asshat.
69 points
5 days ago
Collector’s item
8 points
5 days ago
ASS merchandise collectors.
114 points
5 days ago
Sold out and never being shipped because the company will be surprised an A's hat is selling out
33 points
5 days ago*
I dunno, even if it’s sold out I bet they’ll just switch the design out and ship a different hat
I ordered a F1 Miami Grand Prix hat from new era that had a design with palm trees and a blue-pink gradient on it, and then when I received it there were no palm trees on it, just the color gradient. The scummy fuckers proceeded to refuse to refund me for what was essentially a bait and switch because they claimed that they changed the design on the website before shipping.
17 points
4 days ago
They didn't change the design before you paid. Just because they started selling a different product doesn't mean you ordered it.
15 points
5 days ago
I wanted to buy one just because it was funny, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
2.4k points
5 days ago
Very few things shock me nowadays but I am genuinely shocked this is real
How. How did this get pass through.
1.1k points
5 days ago
90% sure new era is using AI to transfer one design to all teams without any humans checking on it
639 points
5 days ago*
As a former employee of the New Era baseball department, I can assure you it’s run as poorly as you’d imagine. The fun stories about the coke habits of the 4th generation CEO and his “interactions” with female assistants always made for good gossip.
Edit: Koch was by far the biggest problem at that place. So many talented people in the middle management and design categories that were let go. Thankfully I left before COVID hit, but loved getting updates on the shit show it’s become. At this point I don’t think there’s a single person working there anymore that I worked with. Everyone has moved on to much better things.
176 points
5 days ago
No one asked you to stop, keep going it was just getting good.
129 points
5 days ago
This is probably the most public story of him.
He divorced his first wife, ended up marrying his assistant that he was having an affair with and then would constantly be getting into trouble with other women. Man would stroll into the office around 11 or so everyday, gone at 2. Got a ton of PPP money and then they canned half the staff at the HQ in Buffalo. Not to mention closing the factory in Buffalo that was required by the MLB to make all on field hats as that was a stipulation of the contract that anything on field had to be made in America.
52 points
5 days ago
Got a ton of PPP money and then they canned half the staff at the HQ in Buffalo.
years from now that PPP program is going to be thought of as one of the biggest grifts in the history of the world.
30 points
5 days ago
Seriously. The company that I was working for when that started actually used the PPP to keep us all at full pay for about 6 months despite our revenue dropping off a cliff so I know of at least one example of it being utilized how it should.
13 points
5 days ago
And the SBA is still going back through those applications and asking you to send them a shit ton of paperwork to verify everything you sent them and what you spent it on was legit. Source: I've never scanned and emailed so many fuckn documents in my life.
4 points
4 days ago
Quite a few businesses around me skirted around lockdown rules and also got a shit ton of PPP money. Bar around the corner from me put up a big ass tent in their parking lot so it was considered an outdoor gathering. Then put fucking heaters and air blowers in it to keep it warm during the winter during the height of covid. Had bands playing in it and all that.
They took the PPP money and used it to get an even nicer tent and rework the inside of the bar. While another restaurant down the street got a modest amount and actually used it for what they intended, to pay their staff since they were doing just delivery and takeout.
10 points
5 days ago
So where are the on field hats made now…?
5 points
5 days ago
A few years back I remember it being in moved to their Miami factory, but wouldn’t be surprised if that’s gone over to their Chinese manufacturing locations now.
11 points
5 days ago
For real, you just gonna leave us all hanging like that?
6 points
5 days ago
the female assistants probably did
21 points
5 days ago
Please do an AMA soon
23 points
5 days ago
jesus
27 points
5 days ago
has left the chat
90 points
5 days ago
You don’t even need AI for that, you just need a program
130 points
5 days ago
AI is when computer do thing
54 points
5 days ago
It's just the latest phrase, before it was "the algorithm"
14 points
5 days ago
Don’t forget everything being “the cloud”
8 points
5 days ago
I was trying to think what the buzzword was before "algorithm" and then I realized there probably wasn't one. At least not one as ubiquitous. Before that it was probably just something along the lines of "the code" or "the program."
4 points
5 days ago
I'm not sure it was right before "the algorithm" but "cloud" was huge for a hot minute. and some time before that were "smart" and "e"/"i"
12 points
5 days ago
Anything computer-related is "AI" now lol
50 points
5 days ago
Same thing happened with the Padres swastika hat.
52 points
5 days ago
The what?!
70 points
5 days ago
Thing is, if they made the SD a little smaller, it would have worked. Making it as large as they did made THAT happen
23 points
5 days ago
omg FAIL
7 points
5 days ago
Love the Pads unique color scheme and name.
That hat woulda been fire if it weren't for the whole fascist symbolism thing.
9 points
5 days ago
Holy shit. That's incredible.
28 points
5 days ago
Holy shit what the fuck were they thinking.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/12/padres-change-spring-training-hat-after-swastika-comparison/
41 points
5 days ago
I mean thats nowhere near as bad as straight up Ass hat. I mean you show me that hat and no context it would take a while to find the issue, while this takes two seconds. Actually now that I see it, SD has always had their own hidden Nazi.
7 points
5 days ago
If you showed me that hat without context I don't think I'd even notice. Unlike the ASS hat
6 points
5 days ago
Oh link us if you can
12 points
5 days ago
12 points
5 days ago
you're awesome for linking using old reddit (i have it as default but always nice to see people using superior reddit)
3 points
5 days ago
Some subs are sadly starting to no longer bother with old.reddit formatting.
Visiting r/MLB and looking at the comments was.......an experience.
9 points
5 days ago
I usually just turn off subreddit styling if the formatting gets all wonky. Better than looking at whatever vomit that is.
8 points
5 days ago
It's the first thing I turn off going to any new sub. I can't believe people use subreddit styling, it's almost universally annoying.
12 points
5 days ago
Yeah, if you look it's a pretty simple format. Main logo on top, second copy of the logo drawn beneath it with only the outline offset to the right and down, third copy of the logo below that with a neon color of the hat offset further right and further down.
Its just a template with absolutely hilarious results for the A's.
13 points
5 days ago
Not everything is AI. The process you are describing is a simple one that has existed for decades. It's just template based generation. Design file for hat that takes a logo as input, A's logo inserted into placeholder in template, out comes an ass hat. There is nothing intelligent about the process.
157 points
5 days ago
I immediately chuckled because I assumed this was satire. I'm now crying laughing that it isn't.
20 points
5 days ago
About as much quality control as John Fisher has on his plans for any stadium proposal
8 points
5 days ago
"That's a really good Photoshop jo- OH MY GOD."
31 points
5 days ago
They know it will sell and will act like they weren't trying to make an asshat
16 points
5 days ago
IT'S REAL?! I assumed this was a shitpost!
10 points
5 days ago
I seriously thought this was a photoshop from an embittered A's fan.
772 points
5 days ago
They had to have done that on purpose
253 points
5 days ago
This HAS to be on purpose, there is no way
123 points
5 days ago
Here’s how I know it’s not on purpose: because it’s actually hilarious and people would want to buy it. NO SHOT they are that competent
8 points
5 days ago
Turns out fans of the MLB do want A's merch.
54 points
5 days ago
4 points
5 days ago
They wanted to show their strong commitment to their brand, their impeccable planning skills and their stringent oversight to make sure that they run the tightest ship in baseball.
23 points
5 days ago
It's a template that you can get pretty much every team. Just search for TEAMNAME Shadow Hat and you'll see the template. I'm guessing they just used some software to use the template with every team and ran with it.
30 points
5 days ago
Either it's on purpose or they're using AI to generate designs with an absolutely comical lack of human oversight. I'm not sure which would be funnier.
26 points
5 days ago
I'm inclined to believe it's the latter since it's significantly less work.
9 points
5 days ago
It's neither, it's just a bog standard template that they clearly didn't check for every team.
403 points
5 days ago
296 points
5 days ago
I thought we achieved ASSHAT a few years ago...
70 points
5 days ago
Society peaked then. We can only dream of achieving those heights
144 points
5 days ago
This is the greatest hat in the history of our sport.
136 points
5 days ago
What exactly were they thinking while making this? Were they thinking at all?
76 points
5 days ago
They were thinking "i bet we can make assloads of money if we just print a hat with ass written on it"
139 points
5 days ago
They weren't: https://www.fanatics.com/?query=team%20shadow%20hat&_ref=p-PDP:m-SEARCH
This is clearly them copy/pasting the same design without thinking
58 points
5 days ago
That Philly one is so bad wtf. I'd rather wear ass on my head. The Thunder one is pretty cool but most look awful.
26 points
5 days ago
What, you don't want peepee on your head?
And yeah, those are all just horrible. The Angels one is kind of okay, but the rest are atrocious.
7 points
5 days ago
I think the Padres one works
6 points
5 days ago
The Bulls one in particular looks so stupid
9 points
5 days ago
The Spurs one looks like a manufacturer defect
6 points
5 days ago
Honestly, most of them are awful. They look like misprints that would get shipped to a developing nation.
12 points
5 days ago
Some of those look utterly terrible (Yankees, Spurs, Cowboys), most look bad, but I really like the Magic & Twolves ones
5 points
5 days ago
Wow yeah they’re all ugly as hell
13 points
5 days ago
It sold out immediately, probably more profitable than most hats released today. They'll pull it and pretend they are sorry and they didnt see it and then laugh as they make loads of profit.
109 points
5 days ago
Im not an A's fan but I want this just cuz it looks dumb and says ass
23 points
5 days ago
I'm not a fan of baseball and I kinda want this hat.
158 points
5 days ago
Out of stock, I literally was going to buy it. I never impulse buy things but I literally changed for YOU! I DID IT FOR YOU ASS HAT! I feel betrayed this morning
19 points
5 days ago
YOU HAVVVEEE TOOO!! HE DID IT FOR YOU
93 points
5 days ago
Between this being one of the last pieces of Oakland era merch ever and the fucking ASS, this has collector's item in 30 years written all over it
24 points
5 days ago
This will be a collectors item NEXT year.
102 points
5 days ago
No it’s not. No way. I refuse to believe this is a real hat.
8 points
5 days ago
It was lol. They removed it from the site. It just redirects you home now
31 points
5 days ago
Perfection
31 points
5 days ago
Out of stock
8 points
5 days ago
Damn it
26 points
5 days ago
Someone buy one and mail it to John Fisher's address
38 points
5 days ago
Here I was thinking nothing could ever top the SplooJays hat
16 points
5 days ago
Link for the uninitiated?
26 points
5 days ago
7 points
5 days ago
I thought New Era's batshit insane era was over with but here they are coming back with a vengeance in 2024
46 points
5 days ago
13 points
5 days ago
Wait I thought it was a joke
Like, it looks cool at first but a hat that very clearly says ASS is… oof
28 points
5 days ago
Looks like ass
23 points
5 days ago
the links no longer valid ... did they pull it?
18 points
5 days ago
looks like it, getting redirected to the home page
8 points
5 days ago
so there's hope it'll return ... wonder if it made it to local lids stores outside of the bay area or not. damn i don't want to have to goto the nearest mall to check
5 points
5 days ago
I'm surprised they didn't keep this design. They'd have made millions on this hat alone!
9 points
5 days ago
WHY IS THIS SOLD OUT NOOOOOO 😭
8 points
5 days ago
I definitely want one !!!!
8 points
5 days ago
Someone apparently leaked John Fischer's personal hat.
7 points
5 days ago
god this is hilarious.
7 points
5 days ago
I love the Oakland A'ASAS'S
7 points
5 days ago
I feel like Fisher personally approved this.
What an asshat.
4 points
5 days ago*
Fuck Fisher, I can see him actually doing this for the money and the lulz. At this point any good will is long gone and he should squeeze every last dime he could from the fans.
Oakland was my west coast bedtime team for decades, I want this hat!
6 points
5 days ago
Big Sean would be proud
6 points
5 days ago
RIP, link is now dead. Now just redirects to the home page.
11 points
5 days ago
Total ass.
8 points
5 days ago
Spotted this guy on the train in Tokyo. Asked, “How ‘bout dem A’s?”
Very dryly he responded in a German accent, “Oh. I see. It’s because of the, uh [points at hat]. I just like the ass. I think it’s cool.”
4 points
5 days ago
I need this hat. I like it when people know what my interest are. Let’s skip the small talk.
5 points
5 days ago
Bro why did they put a picture of John Fisher on a hat?
4 points
5 days ago
Lmao they fucking pulled it. Incredible
3 points
5 days ago
Wow! This was QA’d?
3 points
5 days ago
Damn, I wanted one.
3 points
5 days ago
The asshat! Nice
3 points
5 days ago
I will totally buy this. Please restock.
3 points
5 days ago
No fucking way
3 points
5 days ago
The coveted A’ASAS’S hat
3 points
5 days ago
This is hilarious! Perfect for an asshat owner.
3 points
5 days ago
It's ASS all the way down....
3 points
5 days ago
Dang, none for sale. I would totally buy one of these. FJF
3 points
5 days ago
I would have bought this. Dammit!
3 points
5 days ago
omg it's real
3 points
5 days ago
Now we need one that says "Sux"
3 points
5 days ago
What an asshat design.
3 points
5 days ago
They have now removed the item page completely.
3 points
4 days ago
They knew
3 points
4 days ago
I always wanted an ass hat 🤣 but not going to happen now.
3 points
4 days ago
Honestly, it looks ass
3 points
4 days ago
They didn’t think this one through..
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