Terry Collins Taking a Stand Against Yoenis Cespedes' Backwards Cap

Yoenis Cespedesdrives around in a motorcycle-car hybrid and plays golf on game days, but you know what Terry Collins is most concerned about when it comes to his 30-year old superstar outfielder? The direction of his hat brim while he stands around the batting cage.

Good lord. Get bent, old-timer. Garbage like this and the no-facial hair rule in Miami are so dumb. This stuff has nothing to do with anything. You know catchers sometimes have hats turned backwards under their masks, right? It’s just, like, a hat, man.

The best part is that Ken Griffey Jr. is 46-years old. He was a rookie in 1989! We’re going on THIRTY YEARS of people complaining about baseball players wearing their hats backwards. Why don’t managers ever complain about long baseball pants and the bygone era where players all wore stirrups?

Am I a hypocrite for thinking a backwards hat is no big deal, but players look more like actual ballplayers when they have high pants and stirrups? It’s not like anyone is wearing a backwards cap during a game. Why do people want to regulate hats and hair, but not actual uniforms? Doesn’t anyone care about tradition?

One of the few guys – if not the only guy – to wear stirrups on a daily basis in Major League Baseball is Twins pitcher J.R. Graham. The 26-year old wears them so his legally blind mother can tell him apart from the other players. That’s how rare dressing like a traditional big leaguer is these days.