As you all know from my post last week, the one in which I spoke about having to choose between my lifelong dream of being a contestant on the American Gladiators and going to a New York Mets baseball game that happened to be bucket hat day – I ended up picking the Mets game.Â
I remember or at least thought that I remembered having gone to a New York Mets bucket hat day game when I was around seven or eight years old. I remember getting the bucket hat and feeling so happy and proud of it. I felt that having the bucket hat made me feel as though I was on the team, that Keith Hernandez could look at me, and see a little bit of me in him.
See this hat that John Olerud is sporting?
That is what I remember my bucket hat being. Now in hindsight, I realize that John Olerud is sporting a helmet hat, and NOT a bucket hat.
This is the hat that I got from the New York Met game on Saturday…
It’s a “bucket” hat, and it should be called a fisherman hat.
Don’t get me wrong, the hat is a fairly neato hat, but when you expect a hard helmet as the free giveaway at the Mets game and instead end up with this wimpy fabric hat, you end up very disappointed – at least I did.
I ended up giving being strong armed into giving the bucket hat to my five year old nephew who did not attend the game.
When he got his my bucket hat he realized that it was too big for him. Can you believe my five year old nephew traded the bucket hat back to me for only the ticket stub?!?! Quite foolish on his part….
Here’s my old friend Tony Bennett modeling the bucket hat. He says that it looks better on him, but I beg to differ.
What do you think?
Oh, and I know what you’re thinking…that my old friend Tony Bennett looks familiar, and you’re right, he does look familiar.  You might recognize him from your local Krispy Kreme Donuts…Â
And he works there on weekends…