What’s even better than one day of gaudy American flag-laden baseball uniforms? To Major League Baseball, the answer is four days worth of wearing gaudy American flag-laden baseball uniforms.
This guiding principle has informed the year’s “special event” uniforms, all of which will be worn for multiple days. The Orioles will therefore be wearing jerseys for both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day for two days each, and around Memorial Day weekend and the Fourth of July, they’ll wear special uniforms for several days, getting both home and road out of the jerseys.
There is, at least, the fig leaf of auctioning off the jerseys for charitable causes, but the creep of the jerseys to multiple days is another sign that MLB is taking this stuff to ridiculous extremes and no one has the power to stop them.