Rally Cap Rules

(photo: SI/John Iacono)

While watching some playoff baseball this weekend I felt it was only right to mention the three classic rules to wearing the rally cap.

1. Only turn your hat inside out if your team is losing! While watching the Yankees game last night, some kid has his hat inside out, while his team was nursing a 8-3 lead. Yeah, that's right, the Yanks had a five run lead. What were you expecting a 8 run lead?

2. Only turn your hat inside out if your team is losing, part 2. This means if your team is tied, you are not losing, you are tied. So once the nine innings are over and the game is still tied, you will go to extra innings. So no need to rally, you're tied!

3. Only turn your hat inside out if it is past the seventh inning. I'm being generous here, but if it's the third inning and you're losing, you still have six more innings or 18 more outs to go. You may actually be jinxing your team because you're using the magic of the rally cap too early. What if you're team then goes back down two a few innings later. You've gone to the well already, you can't go back there again.

As an added bonus remember the rall cap can only be used on baseball caps. Visors do not count.

It's been fun blogging with you,
Kate