"Slap in the face" is internet for "I play too much WoW."

That was fun. I got to say that twice in one day. Now, if I just say it one thousand more times in the next five minutes I can be Wes.

Wait, who wore what cap again?

I'm as confused as an umpire.

But not as much as I liked the AP recap's careful description of it: "Tom Brady, wearing a black Giants hat with the orange letters "SF" on front, was among a contingent of Patriots at the game."

Is there another kind of baseball Giants hat?

Is there another kind of baseball Giants hat?

-- wetnoodle

Yes. The kind with an interlocking "NY". You may have heard that the Giants once played in New York. I've got a hat that fits the description.

I thought he was wearing the cap in support of the repeal of the Gay Sex Marriage Ban.

Never knew Brady was a Frisco Boy, but it is not suprising in the least. Now him and Gisele can finally get married and have it recognized in his home state!

Tom Brady lives in Boston now. If this is really the message he wanted to send, shouldn't he be wearing a Red Sox hat? Or if he's trying to say "root for the team from the town where you grew up," then does that mean he should route for the Warriors against the Celtics, if it ever came to that? Or for the 49ers against his own team?

Really, as Jerry Seinfeld once so memorably said, you're rooting for laundry. With TV (and the Internet) bringing teams from all over the country into your living room, Americans moving from city to city more and more, and ticket prices skyrocketing to the extent that actually going to a game becomes a once- or twice-a-year event for most kids, I think you will see more and more younger folks arbitrarily choosing teams to root for based on a singificant moment in their youth.

I've grew up in Buffalo, then lived in the Bay Area for some years before settling in Baltimore, so I have a convoluted legacy of fandom behind me, but I can tell you why my top baseball love will always be the Mets: because the 1986 World Series was the first moment I reallly paid attention to baseball. Sometimes you just pick one and stick with it.

I always, always, always clicked for Page 2 of King's "columns."

There are teaser paragraphs for at least five of King's "posts" (I didn't scroll all the way down), and I didn't click on any of them, including this one. I just clicked on the comments to post this complaint.

You damn kids get off my lawn, too.

Maybe Bukk63's dog whistle will bring him back over to King's column where his one-liners are appreciated for the insane inanity that they are.

Last I saw he was vowing to canvas for Hillary in 2012. So we might not see him in a while...

Man, I thought it was going to be a NJ Giants hat. Now THAT would have been funny.

The Giants are Brady's National League team. Remember he was caught running around New York wearing a Yankees cap last year.

He's a great player & certainly can wear what he wants when he's not wearing a Cavs uniform, but to show up for a Cleveland Indians playoff game against the Yankees in a Yankees cap is not cool, IMO.

And you know 48 year old white guys are the gatekeepers of 'cool' ;-)

I think it was the ultimate in ballsy-ness for any Patriot to go around Boston wearing anything referencing "Giants" on it.

Good lord...

What's complicated about it? It's simple:

SF Giants = Bonds = Cheating

NE Patriots = Belichick = Cheating

Not a difficult connection to make.

I think you just wanted to slip a Giants post in there :). Hey, how bout that Lincecum - that dude can pitch!

He's too dumb to realize it was for the baseball Giants. He was wearing the cap 'cause he was promised last fall that he'd end up wearing the cap of a winner. He managed to get it wrong again.

I have to agree with Joe Queenan on this one: People who do not root for their home teams (particularly people who, say, live in Indiana but root for Florida State), have no character.

I think it's okay to adopt the team of a new town. Say, for instance, one you grew up in Detroit rooting for the Tigers but then moved to Chicago (this would only work if you moved to the North Side because, as a Tigers fan, you could never, ever, like the Sox). It's okay to root for the Cubs. If, however, the Tigers came to town for interleague play or, God-willing (for both teams) the World Series, you'd have to root for the Tigers. Have to. You can't escape your past.

This is all coming from a Michigan State Spartans fan who has spent his life being tormented by UofM and Notre Dame fans who, because they are constantly winning, have no character.

particularly people who, say, live in Indiana but root for Florida State

Sure, 'cause it couldn't possibly be that they went to Florida State or have a nephew that goes there or was a fan of a QB that went to Florida State and got into college football because of them.

People who ONLY root for their home teams have no imagination and are depressingly provincial.

Or so the argument could be made. Personally, You like who you like. As long as you don't ditch a team once it is no longer winning, you're fine in my book.

I should clarify: People that have no connection to, say, Florida State, and live elsewhere. Of course if that Hoosier went to Florida State then obviously that person should root for Florida State if they are so inclined. The nephew connection, mmmm, I don't know. Maybe too thin a connection.

I don't see what's so imaginative about picking a winning team to follow that one has no connection to other than that they want to root for a winning team.

Anyway, I know my stand on this is not for everybody. But them's my rules.