Portland Sea Canine dropped the toughest hat ever however we nonetheless have questions

Minor league baseball hats are superior.

Of this, there needs to be little question. MiLB is full of unbelievable hats through the years, similar to this hat for the Rocket Metropolis Trash Pandas, or this hat for the Montgomery Biscuits.

Nevertheless, the Portland Sea Canine simply upped the sport.

Portland, the Double-A affiliate of the Boston Purple Sox, will rebrand because the “Maine Lobster Bakes” for a single recreation this season, approaching August twenty third.

And the hat they’re sporting for that recreation goes ABSOLUTELY HARD:

Truthfully, this hat has no excuse for going as laborious because it does. Have a look at the lobster on there, with the menacing glare that tells anybody who dares to get close to it that they’re in for the combat of their life. What’s it holding? We don’t know — extra on that in a second — however that lobster seems to be like they’ll beat us to loss of life with it.

“Lobster is no doubt Maine’s most iconic meals merchandise…once you consider lobster, you consider Maine. We needed to create a theme evening that honored Maine’s most well-known delicacy and the Mainers who’ve devoted their lives to this trade that’s important to our economic system,” mentioned Portland GM and President Geoff Lacuessa.

Nonetheless, we now have questions.

Poor little lobster
By Jared Mueller

I initially despatched this hat into the loving arms of our Slack channel to share my concern for this poor little lobster. Actually the message mentioned “Poor lil lobster in a pan.” Mark got here out swinging with how superior the hat was however this little face tells me he’s going off to be cooked:

Who places their mascot, regardless of how cool the precise hat is, in a pan with different substances on its solution to turn into a meal? As an Ohio State Buckeye fan, I’d put a Wolverine in a pan as a result of we’re going to prepare dinner and eat our rivals.

Additionally, is that an ax in his hand? A hobo stick? Perhaps a toothpick with a prong on the tip to snack on the meals after it’s cooked?

Candy hat, poor little lobster!

I’ve lots of questions on this chef
By James Dator

This can be a good hat. It’s a little bit lobster prepared to combat anybody who tries to steam him to perfection. It’s horrifying. It’s lovely. I get the enchantment.

My subject is with whoever is making an attempt to arrange this lobster. It’s clear they’ve positioned all their substances inside a sauteuse, or sauté pan as we are saying in the USA. This high-walled pan is designed to braise and roast meals in a multi-functional unit which permits direct-heat browning of substances, earlier than utilizing an oven’s oblique warmth to complete over a very long time.

The pan doesn’t even attain the lobster’s claw. What are we even making an attempt to do right here? There may be completely no means this lobster may be cooked correctly in these circumstances. Even when you had been so as to add liquid there’s going to be drastically uneven utility of warmth in a means that neither permits the lobster to boil, or steam successfully.

This can be a copper-cored pan, so clearly the chef has some cash to spend on high quality cookware. This seems to be a All-Clad copper-cored three-ply 7 quart pan, which retails for $250. You understand what’s infinitely cheaper? A STOCK POT! Hell, you’ll be able to even be boujee with it and purchase a very unnecessary All-Clad inventory pot and it’ll nonetheless solely be $129.

I’m irrationally offended on the utter disrespect for high quality substances which might result in anybody placing a Maine lobster inhumanely in a sauteuse to fry a part of its physique erratically over warmth. You both boil a multitude of water and throw it in, or learn to dispatch it shortly with a knife.

This chef is a monster.

I’ve by no means bought a hat sooner
By Mark Schofield

Truthfully, that claims all of it.

Because of the great thing about the web, inside only a few clicks I had a Lobster Bake hat of my very own heading my means.

Positive, that is most likely a hat designed for me, in spite of everything. I’m a Purple Sox fan, I grew up in New England and vacationed in Maine many a summer time, and have attended many a lobster boil.

However it is a lobster that’s taking place swinging.

What’s it holding in its claw? That we have no idea. Is it a pick-axe? A stick to its belongings tied to it on the tip? What belongings does a lobster even have? Is there one thing on this lobster’s previous it doesn’t wish to share with us? That stick led to many questions within the SB Nation Slack channel.

However one factor you can’t query is how laborious this hat goes.

And I’ve by no means bought a hat sooner.