Major League Baseball can just drive you crazy at times. Despite there being three games yesterday, they’re declaring today Opening Day. Furthermore, despite the fact that everyone was off today, they want all the fans to wear their team hats around today. 

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wear a hat in my office. 

In any event, it’s not a bad idea. I can’t wear one, but I was thinking this past weekend that I should get a new Mets hat for my son. He grew out of his first one right as the playoffs started, and I figured I’d hold off on getting him a new one until after the Winter. Overall, my search was a complete failure. 

We first stopped at Babies R Us. They Yankee hats, t-shirts, and jerseys. For the Mets?  They only had bibs, onesies, a $40 sweatshirt, and a David Wright toddler shirsey in clearance. No hat, but I did get the shirsey. 

Similarly, Dicks and Modells (two of them) did not have toddler Mets caps. Lids had Mets children’s fitted caps, but they were $26.00.  First, you never buy a toddler a fitted anything because that’s when they hit their growth spurt and grow out of it within a week. Second, why only fitted?  What happened to snap backs and stretch fit hats?  Finally, $26.00?  Are you kidding me?  Keep in mind that for those of you who don’t have toddlers, they’re not always fans of wearing hats. I’m not spending $26.00 for my son to only wear it 5 times. Great, now I should like my father. Thanks MLB!  

What’s frustrating about this is I want to get my son a cap, but I can’t. I still can’t get my son a Mets cap even after they went to the World Series. However, I can still buy my son a Yankees cap. Everywhere you go now, you see more and more Mets caps and less and less Yankees caps. Except for toddlers, you do not see toddlers wearing Mets caps. 

Now, I could go online and buy one, but with kids you really need to see it to know if it’s the right size or not. For example, my son can wear anything from 3T – 5T depending on who makes it. So in reality, that option is out. 

Logistically, that means either my son will go without a Mets cap until we go to Citi Field, or he will continue to wear one of Daddy’s caps. 

For now, we’ll stick with this option.