Mixed metaphor
This morning I noticed a guy wearing a Chicago Bulls baseball cap. I'm not into sports -- but isn't the Bears the Chicago baseball team?
So, putting a football team on a baseball cap -- that seems... incorrect.
--GG
(May 8, 2015 -- UPDATE -- Perhaps my intended point was that somehow baseball caps have become universal enough to be divorced from the sport that spawned them. To use the teams that I actually am familiar with: having a "fan" baseball jersey that says "Mariners", or a "fake" football jersey that says "Seahawks", or a basketball jersey that says "Supersonics" makes sense. But a basketball jersey that says "Mariners" would be weird.
But a baseball hat that says "Supersonics" would be accepted. And no one notices the disjuncture.)
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posted by Gye Greene @ 10:44 PM
3 Comments:
Actually the White Sox and Cubs are the baseball teams.
The Bears are the football team.
Nowadays every team has a baseball cap... even car racing teams.
Ummm... no. The Bears play football. The Bulls play basketball. The Cubs and the White Sox play baseball. So it's still a mixed metaphor. But the caps are simply popular casual wear, so every team from every popular sport produces them.
Well! OK -- shows just how un-awares I am of sports teams.
Thanks for the info. :)
--GG
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