Vampires Have Baseball Cards Now
The fundamentally awful work of one Carson J. Cistulli sent me to Ebay to find a series of hats that were infinitely better than the five he presented you with. I was going to make a joke about not sending a shabbily-dressed man-child to do a respectable person’s job, but then I got distracted by the following:
Vampire Baseball Cards: Team Cullen
So I set aside my snide remarks about Carson Cistulli’s vagrant-y appearance and smell and focused instead on this unholy, undead abomination.
We have talked before about how vampires straight up ruin baseball. They’re even more detrimental to the game than Cistulli himself with their poor form, superhuman powers, lack of respect for the fact that, hey, we’re playing a game here, and their FetLife wardorbes:
So to see them immortalized (heh, get it?) in the form of cards honoring their baseballing ways is a real kick in the ol’ Cistullis, as we say in my house.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Yes, but do these cards have statistics on the back like the beloved baseball cards I collected as a youth, before I became aware of how unfair life could be, where Carson is paid real money to write words about hats, and sparkly, emotionless vampires would earn a bajillion dollars from a stupid American public desperate to see sullen teenagers show off their abs?”
Yes, yes they do:
I know it’s hard to read them. If you want to know more, you’ll have to bid more than $8.99 for the set, legitimizing their existence through your desire to pay money to possess them. Much in the same way that every time you click on one of Carson Cistulli’s “articles,” to see how truly awful one can truly be, you only encourage him to write all the more.
By the way, here are five caps that are still better than Cistulli’s, because I found them and I’m not going to let them go to waste, like a certain blogger from New England with unspecified facial hair and a holey t-shirt is doing with his life:
United Earths Oceans baseball cap from SeaQuest DSV
$19.95
Serenity baseball cap from either Firefly or the subsequent Serenity film
$19.95
Mandalorian cap from Star Wars
$19.95
$19.95
Yes, the fox is holding a knife in its mouth.
Airwolf cap from the TV show Airwolf starring Jan-Michael Vincent
$19.95
And if you think this whole article has been a flimsy excuse for me to make jokes at Carson’s expense and to embed a video of Airwolf’s opening credits, congratulations:
Mike Bates co-founded The Platoon Advantage, and has written for many other baseball websites, including NotGraphs (rest in peace) and The Score. Currently, he writes for Baseball Prospectus and co-hosts the podcast This Week In Baseball History. His favorite word is paradigm. Follow him on Twitter @MikeBatesSBN.
The Serenity cap is a nice match for all the Serenity undergarments I’ve been seeing in our locker room.