Definitely neo-conservative—with its mongrel marriage of black and brown leathers and yellow labeling offputting to paleocons, who likewise view with disdain its embrace of an open-trade policy that allows its actual assembly to take place in China. Not to mention that there’s something vaguely Jew-sounding about “Glovesmith.”
Still, in my experience, no moderate or centrist glove is secure enough in its convictions to commit to triple-stitched welting or branded break lines—and of course progressive gloves, instead of relying on 1/4” rawhide lacing and a pattern split bent cut shell to form their foundation (a process they consider “elitist”), use gossamer twine, marshmallow padding, and a cow-friendly “tofu-hide”. Worse still, instead of actually catching the ball, such gloves prefer to band together and denigrate neo-conservative gloves like the Glovesmith Elite 1275 TC4 for their heartless social darwinism, then try to get together a “grass roots” campaign to enact legislation making it mandatory that all balls be caught equally.
And don’t even get it started on the Nokona American Pro series, with its racist depiction of Native Americans and its “made in Texas” presumptuosness.
Smell the glove.
Further proven by the fact that the people in Texas won’t let the Texas Rangers use the Nokona American Pro series, mostly because Toh Hicks is a wanker.
TW: getting ready for another “Texas Rangers” season44 of half assed efforts with blah pitching
One of many evocative scents so firmly stored in my memory that I can still smell it when there isn’t a baseball glove within miles.
All those years alternating between right field and warming the bench in little league. And forcing a rematch in the playoffs because the opposing team’s pitcher was ineligible to pitch in a championship game.
I never did become much of a baseball player. Fortunately I also didn’t become a lawyer.
Damn you, I wasn’t illegal, I was just tall for my age!!!!!!
Right you are. Ensuring that all balls have the equal opportunity to be caught is the neocon way of baseball.
Mandating that each ball is caught equally is definitely the progressive approach and feels good.
Since were on the subject of feeling good and balls, could I speak to you about a personal request……
This only evoked Spinal Tap for me.
“What’s wrong with being sexy?”
McGehee, I wasnt’ much of a baseball player, either. I did, however, learn how to juggle while my baseball team was busy losing all its games.
Let’s see how much you have left on your fastball by mid August after pitching in 100 degree heat and 100% humidity all summer long. The big Mayan Padilla
is the only one who can handle it and it just makes him mean.
BTW as baseball fans we’d be happy if any neocon could actually catch the ball let alone throw anyone out.
I don’t think you’d be too eager to try and tag up on me.
All baseball gloves by their very nature run discordant with progressivism because each fielded ball is an attempt to oppose a run from scoring because, at the end of the day, an actual score is kept with an actual winner and loser.
Of course, that bastard didn’t have to hit the ball either to try to score. Freakin’ war monger.
Ah forget baseball…let’s just go sit in the outfield, where the playing field is level.
By the way, don’t ever accuse my Rawlings glove as being “heartless”. It’s made from the “heart of the hide”.
It’s all phallocentric violence-oriented fascism.
My next glove will be either a Rawlings or a second Nokona in Kangaroo. My other is a utility glove—12” with a closed, cross-weave webbing. The walnut leather broke in surprisingly fast. Petroleum jelly has a way of doing that to leather, I guess.
He was tall—but I think what nailed him was the daily courier deliveries from a “J. Canseco.”