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MLB 2010 Thread of Beret-Wearing Hippies Can Get the Frappé Out

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The Frankman

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Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
Actually I didn't. Your posting gave me motivation to do so.
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Date posted on GAF - 2:42
Time Sanjuro voted - 1:49
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Sanjuro

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I ended up getting a new hat for the first time in over ten years. These new polyester ones are fucking shit. I do like the feel of it, but it looks terrible and will not conform to my head shape.

Anyone with any tips here for making it not look like I have a pot on my head?
 
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Doytch

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Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
I ended up getting a new hat for the first time in over ten years. These new polyester ones are fucking shit. I do like the feel of it, but it looks terrible and will not conform to my head shape.

Anyone with any tips here for making it not look like I have a pot on my head?
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Don't even bother trying to wet/shrink, won't work. I've heard that putting it in the oven on really low (<=200 F) for a couple of minutes and then putting it on your head works, but you should double-check that.

I did the work for you, here:
Like many of you, I like to wear official MLB gear, including New Era's line of baseball caps. In particular, the 59Fifty. As many have already noticed, the 2007 edition of the hat is made of polyester, in contrast to its wool predecessors. It used to be sufficient to rinse the hat with warm-to-hot water, and then simply put it on as it dried and shrank to the shape of your head. This won’t work with polyester. Apparently, one of the reasons for switching to polyester was to prevent shrinkage. However, for fans who do not have big heads, and who do not want their official hat to sit tall on their heads, and consequently have a need to break their hats in, the new design is a disaster. Traditional methods for breaking in ball caps will not do, and I had to do some experimentation to break in the new polyester hat.

Well, fear not, fans. After doing some investigation online, I discovered that to shrink polyester fabric, you need to heat it to over 81 degrees Celsius (177 degrees Fahrenheit) but under 230 degrees Celsius (446 degrees Fahrenheit), as this is when the fabric melts.

There are two ways to do this at your house. Either a) cook the hat in your oven at about 300 degrees Fahrenheit or b) boil it. But don’t do that right away! You have to prepare the hat to prevent side effects. Follow these steps in order:

1) Wash the hat with a small amount of laundry detergent in the sink. Don’t put it in the washer/dryer! The washer/dryer would shred your hat to bits. The reason you need to wash it is that the hats have excess dye which will bleed into white fabric when wet, and you're going to need to get the hat wet numerous times in this process. So, wash your hat in the sink until most or all of the excess dye has dripped out of it.

2) Preheat your oven to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

3) Take a hot shower - as hot as you can make it without scalding yourself - with the hat on. Here, you're trying to get the hat to conform to the shape of your head. Try gripping it tightly so the inside mesh begins to bend backwards. You may need to experiment a bit in the mirror to see how you want it shaped while the hat is soaking wet. This will give you an idea of how to hold it tightly in the shower. After about 10 minutes of holding it - while it's on with the hot water running - to the shape you want it to be, your oven should be hot enough to cook your hat.

4) Put the hat in the oven immediately. Don't worry, this won't melt it. The hat is 100% polyester, and as long as you keep it below 446 degrees Fahrenheit, it won't melt. That's why I recommend about 300 degrees Fahrenheit, a sufficient temperature to shrink the fabric and yet not do any damage. Leave it in the oven until it’s dry.

5) Take the hat out of the oven, let it cool off for a few minutes, and try it on. If it fits the way you like, then you're done. If not, you still need to shrink it some more. Read on.

6) Get a large pot and fill it with water, enough to submerge the hat in. On the stove, bring the water to a rolling boil. Once the water's boiling, put the hat in. Leave it there for about 10 to 15 minutes. If you notice the water turning a reddish or any other color, don’t panic; that's just more excess dye bleeding out. If, when you take the hat out, the dye has bled into the white fabric of the hat, wash it immediately (as you did in Step 1), as you do not want the dye to stain the white fabric.

7) Get back in the shower, with the hat on, with hot water, as in Step 3. Hold it in the shape you want it to be again. Do this for about 10 minutes or so.

8) Put it back in the oven at about 300 degrees Fahrenheit to dry it off. When it's dry, take it out, let it cool, and try it on.

9) Repeat these steps until you can get it to shrink sufficiently to the shape of your head.

10) Leave the hat on for an hour or two and work on the brim to get it to the shape you want.

Remember that you need to heat polyester to over 177 degrees Fahrenheit in order to get it to shrink, so getting it to partially shrink and then wearing it hoping the rest of it will break in over time will not work. This is much more tedious than breaking in any of your previous wool hats, but it will work with time and patience.
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Fucking Herculean task, but...yeah.

K, so.

1) Wash it in the sink.
2) Wear it in a hot shower.
3) 300F oven til dry.
4) Wear and pray to god it's good else repeat.
 
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Sanjuro

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You've got to be fucking kidding me...

Basically the hats now are catered to the "I'm a douchebag" or "I look silly" crowd. smh.
 
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Doytch

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Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
You've got to be fucking kidding me...

Basically the hats now are catered to the "I'm a douchebag" or "I look silly" crowd. smh.
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Pretty much. But the only new step is the oven dry. With wool caps you still had to wear it wet.

I just suffered through the new hat phase with my last two caps (black T, red Canada Day) and they've worn in now. I don't think I'd bother with this shit for another cap, though I would for a wool one.
 
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Sanjuro

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I like the concept. I mean the polyester ones don't have that wet dog smell and it has different coloring on the inside to make it not look like a WW2 item. I managed to stretch back out my old wool one...but I mean I got this hat in 1999.

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Marvie_3

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Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
You've got to be fucking kidding me...

Basically the hats now are catered to the "I'm a douchebag" or "I look silly" crowd. smh.
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Yeah, the new hats are shit compared to the old ones.
 
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Doytch

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DevelopmentArrested said:
So we having a Jays GAF meetup this year or what? Doesn't even have to be a game.... a bar with the game on will suffice.
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I'm totally down. I got my 15-packs in today :)D) so games other than those would be best. Weekend/weekday makes no difference for me since I'm downtown every day anyway.
Saw a couple tweets about an incoming PED suspension. Don't see any more information other than that.
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Probably some minor leaguer.
 
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h3ro

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Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
Been there, done that.

How old is this kid that just came up?
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No clue, but that's what comes up when you look for "black mets cap gangsta" along with a picture of Joan Rivers.
 
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NewLib

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Niese has given up some hard hit balls but he has had some great pitches. He has had 3 Strike Three pitches which started outside the zone and nicked a corner coming back in.
 
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h3ro

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The Frankman said:
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Jeff Hardy?! Man, the Hardy Brothers were nuts back when they first started in WWE. I tried watching Raw a few nights ago, can't get into it anymore. If they are going to focus so much more on in-ring talking, they better make sure the guys talking can sell it like Rocky did which none of the top flight guys do.

Anyway, Niese looking like a boss tonight.
 
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The Frankman

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Jonathon Niese Is Baseball Person. Maybe that tobacco chawing mindfreak John Maine should watch the way Niese pitches. In and out, up and down, change speeds. Like sex.
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I missed the beginning of the game. Whats the story with Reyes tonight?
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Day off.
 
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Mrbob

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Oh my god score some damn runs. 7 hits in 5 innings with nothing to show for it. If the Cubs had a halfway decent offense they would have 10 wins right now, even with the shoddy bullpen work. Someone get a timely hit. Ridiculous. Great starting pitching keeps on getting wasted.
 
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