Bryce Harper’s now-famous “Make Baseball Fun Again” cap was meant as a somewhat iconoclastic statement against baseball’s boring orthodoxy. A little over a month later it has been coopted by the suits, as the Nationals are now selling “Make Baseball Fun Again” merch in their team store:
Get ‘em while they’re hot. Available at the #Nats Team Store. #MakeBaseballFunAgain pic.twitter.com/12gadd0yNJ
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 22, 2016
The cycle of counterculture-to-consumer product in this country must now be measured in microseconds.
