Baseball season is in full swing (yes, pun intended). I usually don't mind baseball-themed products when those products are designed for cute little kids. The Slugga bat backpack is at the top of my list for awful products targeted at Little Leaguers.
OK, so I don't actually have a list titled Most Awful Products Targeted at Little Leaguers. But if I did, this would be on it.
The Slugga bat backpack went overboard with trying to be cute and themed. This thing fails at being cool and also looks pretty creepy.
It is a character shaped like a real baseball bat with arms and legs. I like a little anthropomorphism every now and then, but not in this case. He looks like he's high. He's showing his midriff. No baseball player would be caught dead in a cropped jersey. Not even the gals in A League of Their Own would wear this. The cap tilted to the side must be an attempt at being "hip". Or, maybe he's just too stoned to keep his hat on straight. Those shoes suck. They look like wannabe Chuck Taylors.
It's great that these kids are participating in an athletic activity and are having fun. Props to their parents for not allowing them to get grossly overweight like most kids I see today. (that my friends, would be an entire other ranting post) However, at least one of these kids has a parent or coach who allowed him to carry the stupid Slugga. On a side note, is it just me or does it look like the head of the kid in the front row on the left was Photoshopped on?
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